Valve chief Gabe Newell fires host of Dota 2 esports tournament: ‘James is an ass’
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...
Halo World Championship’s $2.5M prize pool is the largest in esports shooter history
Halo’s greatest players are fighting for more than just bragging rights. Microsoft announced today that 16 teams from across the globe have earned a spot...
Twitch competitor DingIt rounds up 20M monthly viewers
Twitch shouldn’t be, well, twitching just yet, but another site wants a piece of that streaming pie. DingIt, a global streaming site specializing in...
What Twitch and esports can teach us about building successful media companies
From a 2011 spinoff of Justin.tv to a $1 billion acquisition by Amazon in 2014, Twitch has taken over esports viewing and led the...
RankR gives esports a single hub for news, rankings, and tournaments
Competitive gamers have a new tool that can make organizing and following their scene easier. Esports Access announced today the launch of RankR, a...
The esports industry has a lot to learn from the daily fantasy sports mess
DraftKings and FanDuel are capping off what’s been nothing short of an astonishing NFL season for daily fantasy sports. These companies hit the ground...
Super Bowl Showdown: Is esports or the NFL a better career choice?
Today is Super Bowl 50, and about 120 million people are expected to watch the Denver Broncos square off against the Carolina Panthers. That’s...
New site mixes Texas Hold ’em with Hearthstone to make wizard poker an esport
Texas Hold ’em is one of the most popular card games in the world. Yet one company is looking to shake up a formula...
DreamHack Bucharest will give away $100K to Counter-Strike: GO’s best esports players
Esports fans will have another event to look forward to this fall. The popular DreamHack esports group announced a tournament today for Bucharest that...
Hearthstone’s drastic changes will kill hundreds of cards — but might save its future
Blizzard is sending a major storm in Hearthstone’s direction. When it launched, the free-to-play digital card game was accessible to everyone because everyone started on...