Esports legitimizes itself — it doesn’t need the Olympics
When table tennis was added to the Olympic Games in 1988, its proponents had spent 57 years pushing for its inclusion. But what may...
Fortnite crushes rivals on Twitch with 74% rise in Q2 viewership
The enormously popular free-to-play battle royale shooter Fortnite crushed its rivals in the second quarter in terms of hours watched on livestreaming platform Twitch....
League of Legends studio Riot teases new games
Riot Games is sort of a misnomer. After all, the studio only has the one game with its megapopular and lucrative multiplayer online battle...
Esports firm Team SoloMid raises $37 million from Stephen Curry and others
Swift, the parent company of esports organization Team SoloMid, has raised $37 million in a first round of funding. The backers include round leader...
Riot Games sells cancer patient’s LoL character skin for charity
A cancer patient had a dream to make his own League of Legends skin, or customized character appearance. Contacted through Make-A-Wish Foundation, Riot Games...
Esports should follow skateboarding’s lead to going mainstream
If esports wants to make it big, and I mean really big — “your colleagues talking about at work” big — it needs a...
Riot Games revamps its European League of Legends esports ecosystem
Riot Games faces a lot more competition than it once did on the esports front, with new games such as Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds...
What Alienware has learned from 10 years of esports
Frank Azor cofounded Alienware more than two decades ago, and so he had the look of a grizzled veteran at the Electronic Entertainment Expo...
Supreme Court decision means esports betting can step out of the shadows
The Supreme Court of the United States today overruled a 1992 federal law that prohibited states from authorizing betting on sporting events. Today’s 6-3...
Gaming has gone mainstream, but it still has room to grow
The global games market is expected to grow from $137.9 billion in 2018 to more than $180.1 billion in 2021, according to market researcher Newzoo....