Categories Posted inin Business Only 2 of the top 200 highest-grossing e-sports stars are women Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 7, 2015 2 min While 13 percent of viewers are female, most competitive teams are men-only. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Heroes of Newerth lives under the ownership of Southeast Asian chat-app company Garena Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes May 6, 2015 2 min Creator S2 Games passes the development torch to Garena Online's Frostburn Studios. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business E-sports makes $612M from its 134M viewers worldwide, SuperData finds Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 6, 2015 2 min 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. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business ESPN2 will air a live e-sports match this Sunday for the first time ever Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 22, 2015 2 min 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. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The house that League of Legends built: a look inside Riot Games’ new campus Posted byby GamesBeat April 21, 2015 2 min Riot Games has shared some images of its new West L.A. campus. You'll wish you worked there. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Gaming’s top 25 public companies generated $54.1B in revenue last year Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 20, 2015 2 min Nearly every gaming sector has a representative in the top 10 publicly traded companies except for Web-based social apps. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Why Lizard Squad and others target game servers with DDoS attacks Posted byby Jason Wilson April 20, 2015 4 min And yes, gamers, you can do something about it. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business AlphaDraft — gaming’s DraftKings — is hosting its own $12.5k League of Legends tournament Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 10, 2015 1 min AlphaDraft wants the biggest e-sports audience in the world to pay attention. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business ESL’s Katowice event was another massive success Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 8, 2015 2 min 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. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business League of Legends, Dota 2 will lead PC gaming’s fastest-growing sector to $500M this year in North America Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 30, 2015 3 min The fastest-growing genre on PC is about to turn into the biggest. Continue Reading 3 min