Vainglory developer partners with Twitch to expand esports appeal

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2016
Updated June 19, 2025
3 min

Super Evil Megacorp has partnered with Amazon’s livestreaming platform Twitch in the latest bid to turn the Vainglory mobile game into an esport.

Twitch is joining Super Evil Megacorp in a three-year partnership in North America and Europe to create the official Vainglory Championships and support esports programs. Vainglory is a mobile-based multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game that has gradually built an audience of spectators and professional players who compete in seasonal tournaments. Built on revenue streams from tournaments and sponsorships, esports is expected to grow 43 percent to $463 million in 2016 and reach $1.1 billion by 2019, according to market researcher Newzoo.

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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.