French government announces plans to legalize and regulate esports industry
As part of a sweeping set of digital reforms under consideration, the French government has taken steps to simultaneously embrace and regulate the esports...
ESL says it still wants to work with YouPorn’s esports team
One of esports’ biggest organizations doesn’t want to ban one of its rising teams, but it says it doesn’t have much of a choice...
How esports can learn from its traditional sports teams and broadcasters
The global esports market will grow to $463 million this year, according to Newzoo’s latest Global Esports Market Report. By 2019 the report says...
Esports league bans YouPorn’s pro gamer squad
As competitive gaming strives for mainstream acceptance, one of the biggest organizations is forcing out a sponsor that specializes in pornography. ESL (Electronic Sports...
TBS reveals 24 teams for its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league
The Turner Broadcasting System is ready to embrace esports. TBS has revealed the 24 teams that will compete in the station’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament,...
Zengaming gets $2.8M in funding to expand its social network for the esports business
Competitive gaming is growing quickly, and one of the sites trying to make your dreams of going pro a reality is building up to serve...
Azubu’s new esports viewer offers higher resolution than Twitch
If you can’t compete with Twitch’s viewership, you can try to beat them with quality. Esports streaming site Azubu announced a new HTML 5 viewer...
Call of Duty World League champions look back on a year of Black Ops III esports
The road to the Call of Duty Championship isn’t an easy one. It’s filled with gut-wrenching losses, surprise upsets, and an ever-shifting play field...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive takes out another esports viewership record
Activision’s newly acquired Major League Gaming division is pulling in huge audiences even when it broadcasts games that don’t belong to the giant publisher....
Plays tv touts growth that’s better than Instagram and Snapchat after its first year of PC gaming recording
Sometimes, people just want to watch a highlight of an esports match instead of a whole tournament. Plays.tv, a site that enables people to...