SuperData: Esports is now a $892 million market, but growth is slowing
The esports business is closing in on $1 billion dollars, even if growth isn’t expanding quite as fast as it once did. Research firm SuperData released a new...
Razer expands pro gaming investment with sponsorship of Denial Esports
Razer now sponsors 20 different esports teams as it further pushes its effort to associate its products with top-level gaming. Denial Esports, a pro...
ESPN2 will show Street Fighter V finals from Evo 2016 esports tourney
ESPN2 is going to air the finals of the Street Fighter V World Championship live from the EVO 2016 fighting-game tournament at 7 p.m Pacific time (10 p.m. Eastern) on July 17 in Las Vegas. Publisher Capcom announced the television event on the official Street Fighter YouTube and Facebook accounts.
The DeanBeat: The battle of the esports titans
Esports has is a phenomenon in the game business, and big companies are planting their stakes to demonstrate that they’re ready for a world of...
Britain gets its own esports association
The British like to go their own way. We’ve seen that with Brexit, and now with the formation of the British eSports Association. The...
Vainglory snags Amazon Appstore as a major esports sponsor
Esports continues to mature, as mobile esports company Super Evil Megacorp announced today it has snared the Amazon Appstore as a premier sponsor for...
How Activision will make Call of Duty into a bigger esports draw
Call of Duty is already one of the most popular game franchises on Earth, with more than $15 billion in sales over the past...
Curse touts its platform as a next-level tool for Twitch streamers, gamers, and esports
Curse launched its unified communications platform in late April as an all-in-one tool for gamers and streamers. The platform has gathered millions of users...
EA’s Peter Moore lays out tiered esports strategy to make everyone a star
The growth of esports in the past decade has been impressive, and now the game industry’s biggest companies are diving into it. An example is...
Twitch’s 100 million viewers watched 800 million hours of esports in the last 10 months
If you’re uncertain why companies like ESPN and Activision have been making big acquisitions and investments in esports, here’s a good answer: because more than...