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Gree’s Andrew Sheppard is placing his bets to take original mobile games higher

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 23, 2015
15 min

Sheppard told us that mobile game companies need to scale up their efforts to compete on a global level.

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League of Legends, Dota 2 could push e-sports to make at least $465M in 2017

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 17, 2015
3 min

Research firm Newzoo even sees a scenario where e-sports brings in $1 billion in 2017.

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3 min

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League of Legends continues its dominance as most-played PC game

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 16, 2015
1 min

Riot rings in the new year as the most popular online PC game. The four most popular games are always the same according to gaming social site Raptr: League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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A picture of several characters fighting in Heroes of the Storm, from a top down perspective similar to that of role playing games.

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Heroes of the Storm could make $10M a month, claims an analyst

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 12, 2015
3 min

Blizzard's multiplayer online arena battler is late to the MOBA party, but it has the publisher's unmatched star power behind it.

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3 min

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This startup wants to turn your League of Legends’ e-sports fandom into cash

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 16, 2015
3 min

A new website called AlphaDraft is set to launch Monday, and it plans to offer daily League of Legends fantasy leagues set up to look a lot like DraftKings and FanDuel. This free service will enable you to put real money into matches in which you draft players for a day’s or weekend’s worth of games.

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League of Legends remains PC’s most popular game on Raptr

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 16, 2015
1 min

According to the gaming social site Raptr, which gets its data 23 million users in over 100 countries and their percentage of total play time, the multiplayer online battle arena was the most-played PC game in December.