Activision shakes the e-sports world with $1M prize purse for the Call of Duty Championship
Publisher Activision teams up with Microsoft for the Call of Duty Championship.
EA Sports Challenge launches on PS3, with $1 million prize fund up for grabs
Electronic Arts today launched its new e-sports video game tournament, exclusively on the Playstation 3. The EA Sports Challenge Series is designed to determine...
Justin.tv signs exclusive broadcast deal with giant e-sports league ESL
Justin.tv announced today that it has secured an exclusive distribution deal with the electronic sports league, ESL, to broadcast electronic sports tournaments on Twitch.tv....
Major League Gaming’s Raleigh competition draws record audience
Videogame broadcaster and event producer Major League Gaming’s (MLG) most recent competitive event in Raleigh, N.C., drew more than 130,000 concurrent subscribers, not including...
Twitch.tv hits 8M viewers, partners with Blizzard’s largest Starcraft 2 tournament
Online game broadcasting network Twitch.tv has passed 8 million unique visitors and 1 billion of minutes viewed in July. It has also partnered with the...
Justin.tv launches partner program for pro-gaming broadcasters
Video streaming site Justin.tv announced today it’s launching a revenue-sharing program that professional gamers with a large number of followers can enroll in through...
Second Starcraft II episode “Heart of the Swarm” trailer leaked
A trailer for Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm — the second episode of Activision-Blizzard’s massively popular real-time strategy (RTS) game franchise — found...
Can e-sports be bigger than golf? (Q&A)
Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, started recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming...
Live-streaming site Justin.tv buffing up for e-sports channels
Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, is recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming...
Blizzard cut content and corners to make Starcraft II good for professional gaming
Blizzard Entertainment, the creator of real-time strategy games like Warcraft and Starcraft, sacrificed a lot of potential improvements to Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty —...