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...
NBA 2K giving away $250,000 as part of an attempt to attract an esports crowd
The publisher announced today that its starting a competition, called Road to the Finals, for its basketball simulator NBA 2K16 that will give away $250,000. This represents another major company actively trying to attract competitive gamers (and the millions of viewers that love to watch them).
Sorry, Cowherd: Heroes of the Storm returns to ESPN2 with $500K prize pool
Heroes of the Dorm may have brought in just a .1 Nielsen share last year, but the excitement — and business potential — of esports...
Games investments took a big dip in 2015, but esports and VR are coming on strong
When it comes to games, investors are a fickle lot. In 2015, investments in game companies fell dramatically, according to data from analysis firm...
FaceIt esports community raises $15 million to go global
Esports is a growing market, and it isn’t only about the top 1 percent of players in the world that show up for the tournaments you see on...
Esports market to grow 43% to $463M in 2016 and reach $1.1B by 2019
The global esports market is expected to grow 43 percent from $325 million in 2015 to $463 million in 2016, according to a new...
Skillz launches crossplatform tournament system for mobile esports
You Android gamers no longer need an iPhone to win money from Apple-device owners in mobile esports tournaments. One of the bigger mobile-esports startups...
Esports viewership is up 100% in the U.S. over the past two years
The number of U.S. gamers who watch esports has grown 100 percent over two years, according to a national study by market researcher Frank N....
Ex-Call of Duty developer acquires Denial esports team
Every one wants to get in the esports game. Robert Bowling, formerly a lead on the Call of Duty franchise at Infinity Ward, has backed the esports team Denial, which won $400,000 in first-place prize money at the 2015 Call of Duty World Champions.