E-sports makes $612M from its 134M viewers worldwide, SuperData finds
Affluent young men have turned e-sports into a real market worth a lot of money, but most publishers and even the pro players treat it as marketing.
ESPN2 will air a live e-sports match this Sunday for the first time ever
The Heroes of the Storm collegiate finals will stream on ESPN3.com this Sunday, and the grand finals will broadcast live during prime time on cable.
The house that League of Legends built: a look inside Riot Games’ new campus
Riot Games has shared some images of its new West L.A. campus. You'll wish you worked there.
Gaming’s top 25 public companies generated $54.1B in revenue last year
Nearly every gaming sector has a representative in the top 10 publicly traded companies except for Web-based social apps.
Why Lizard Squad and others target game servers with DDoS attacks
And yes, gamers, you can do something about it.
AlphaDraft — gaming’s DraftKings — is hosting its own $12.5k League of Legends tournament
AlphaDraft wants the biggest e-sports audience in the world to pay attention.
ESL’s Katowice event was another massive success
E-sports events continue to draw bigger audiences in 2015. ESL, a major competitive-gaming organization, is revealing today that its most recent events attracted more than 1 million simultaneously online viewers and 100,000 in-person attendees.
League of Legends, Dota 2 will lead PC gaming’s fastest-growing sector to $500M this year in North America
The fastest-growing genre on PC is about to turn into the biggest.
Smite’s first year sees it inching closer to MOBA elite League of Legends, Dota 2
The multiplayer online battle arena officially came out for PC on March 25, 2014, entering a market dominated by heavyweights League of Legends and Dota 2. Still, while many MOBAs don’t make it, Smite is now the third-most popular game of its kind, having surpassed Heroes of Newerth.
Dota 2 makes $18M per month for Valve — but League of Legends makes that much every 5 days
Dota 2 and League of Legends continue to grow as more players around the world turn to free-to-play competitive games.