Find Your Grind and ReKTGlobal team up for $450,000 in esports scholarships
Find Your Grind (FYG) has partnered with esports platform ReKTGlobal to create a scholarship program for students and others who want to pursue esports....
Overwatch League will reward Twitch viewers with tokens for in-game skins
Twitch announced today that a new program will give Overwatch League viewers tokens that they can use to buy team-based character skins inside Blizzard...
Icons: Combat Arena aims to usher in a new era of platform fighters
Presented by Intel For Wavedash CEO Matt Fairchild and creative director Jason Rice, building a new platform fighter makes more than just business sense:...
Sliver.tv raises $20 million in ICO presale to improve esports streaming
Sliver.tv has raised $20 million in a public initial coin offering (ICO) for a cryptocurrency that is aimed at improving the bandwidth available for...
Booming business of esports sets sights on conquering mainstream audiences
There may be no better measure of the progress the exploding esports industry has made in recent years than a gathering planned this week...
Tencent will launch Arena of Valor’s World Cup tournament
Tencent already has a PC esports success on its hands with Riot Games’s League of Legends, but it wants to expand into mobile as...
Russia’s esports market is heating up
2018 so far has saw some major moves in the Russian esports realm, which has emerged as a sizable European market with established players...
Twitch gets its second esports exclusive: Eleague’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Turner Sports has partnered with Twitch as the official third-party platform for its Eleague esports events. Starting with the Eleague Major: Boston, a Counter-Strike:...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds esports grows with Global Loot League’s $50,000 event
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has left the Early Access program for unfinished games on Steam, and now esports organizations want to see if they can make...
Overwatch League’s first week attracted over 10 million viewers
Blizzard announced today that the first week of Overwatch League drew more than 10 million viewers. Overwatch League is Blizzard’s new esports organization for...