Turtle Beach partners with esports team OpTic Gaming for new headset

Turtle Beach has turned to seasoned esports team OpTic Gaming to promote its new gaming headset.

OpTic Gaming’s competitive esports teams will wear the Turtle Beach Elite Pro Tournament Gaming Headset when competing in tournaments for Call of Duty, Halo, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. The deal is yet another sign that the growing esports business is starting to resemble pro athletic sports when it comes to celebrity endorsements and sponsorships.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.