MLG and ESPN team up on live e-sports gaming event in Austin
The X Games Austin event from June 6 to June 8 will feature both gaming and music.
E-sports viewers doubled to over 70 million in 2013 — and they tend to be young men, married, and have steady jobs
Two top games research firms have partnered up to dig deep into the growth of e-sports.
Sony and MLG will make PlanetSide 2 into a competitive e-sport with huge teams
As an eSport, PlanetSide 2 will probably have the biggest matches of any competitive game.
Major League Gaming raises $13M for live game tournaments
Major League Gaming has raised $13 million for its business of running video game tournaments played through the web and at live events. The...
Minecraft developer says “No sane person can be for SOPA”
Markus Persson, creator of the breakout hit indie game Minecraft, has announced that minecraft.net and mojang.com will be taken down on Jan 18th, in...
League of Legends developer takes anti-SOPA stance, urges players to write to Congress
Riot Games, developer of popular free-to-play online game League of Legends, has announced its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Chief Executive...
Major League Gaming’s Raleigh competition draws record audience
Videogame broadcaster and event producer Major League Gaming’s (MLG) most recent competitive event in Raleigh, N.C., drew more than 130,000 concurrent subscribers, not including...
Blizzard cut content and corners to make Starcraft II good for professional gaming
Blizzard Entertainment, the creator of real-time strategy games like Warcraft and Starcraft, sacrificed a lot of potential improvements to Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty —...