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Vainglory snags Amazon Appstore as a major esports sponsor

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Esports continues to mature, as mobile esports company Super Evil Megacorp announced today it has snared the Amazon Appstore as a premier sponsor for its summer 2016 esports season in North America and Europe.

Super Evil is trying to turn the mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game into an esport, and it’s not easy. But landing major speakers is a part of monetizing the esports community, and Amazon Appstore is coming in as a platinum sponsor.

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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.