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NBA jams into esports: Warriors’ Guber, Wizards’ Leonsis, and Magic Johnson buy Team Liquid

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 27, 2016
2 min

Basketball? Baseball? How 20th century. Today’s sports mogul is looking toward digital competition. Team Liquid has announced that it has sold the controlling interest of its...

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Peter Moore will be a board member at Nifty Games.

How EA is moving to turn all players into competitive gamers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 8, 2016
14 min

Peter Moore is a former pro soccer athlete, and so he knows the mixed emotions people feel when they describe professional video game players...

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How Electronic Arts is taking a big leap into esports for all players (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 12, 2016
10 min

Electronic Arts just announced a three-tiered strategy for esports in its blockbuster games. The company will make esports stars out of everyone with its...

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Newzoo: A billion people will know about esports by the end of 2016

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
May 11, 2016
2 min

Esports is outgrowing its status as a niche industry for hardcore gamers, and it’s turning into global entertainment. More than a billion people will...

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Valve chief Gabe Newell fires host of Dota 2 esports tournament: ‘James is an ass’

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 27, 2016
3 min

Esports is having some pretty glaring growing pains to end this week. Valve has fired James “2GD” Harding, who was hosting the English-language stream...

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Azubu will broadcast one of China’s biggest Dota 2 tournaments

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 11, 2015
2 min

We’re quickly entering a world where you will never miss a pro match of Dota 2. The game livestreaming site Azubu announced today that...

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Dota 2’s revenues slide even as worldwide digital sales reach $5.5B in October, according to analyst

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 24, 2015
2 min

October was the biggest month of the year so far for digital game sales, but one industry analyst claims that did not help Dota...

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Heroes of the Storm’s two-player Cho’Gall is a chaotic riot — if you can find a partner

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 23, 2015
3 min

Throughout its life, Heroes of the Storm has had to deal with its heroes being compared to the ones in competing releases. While many of the game’s...

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2K delays release date for its MOBA shooter Battleborn

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 5, 2015
2 min

Borderlands developer Gearbox Software is going to get a few more months to spruce up its next big release. Publisher Take-Two Interactive Entertainment reported...

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Esports is already worth $748M, but it’ll reach $1.9B by 2018

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 28, 2015
2 min

Competitive gaming is growing into a lucrative industry at a rapid rate as Americans and Europeans turn more of their attention to it. Esports...

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