Raptr’s Plays.tv makes it easy to make highlight videos from League of Legends matches

Dennis Fong wishes he were an esports player again, with the huge crowds and big prizes that professional gamers are getting these days. But the chief executive of Raptr is doing the next best thing. Raptr is announcing today that its Plays.tv gameplay-recording service is adding two major features: the ability to identify the great moments from a game match and the ability to stitch those moments together in a ready-to-share highlights video.

The service will enable pro gamers and amateurs alike to instantly create highlight videos that tell a great story. That should help stoke interest by enabling the near-automatic creation of higher-quality videos, which in turn should get more people excited about the gamer and the game itself. It’s a necessary labor-saving step in the maturing of the esports ecosystem, Fong told GamesBeat. (Fong will be a speaker at our upcoming GamesBeat 2015 event in October.)