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IGN’s David Ting wants developers to build a digital stadium for e-sports

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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E-sports are in an early stage. After all, basketball was invented in 1891, professional basketball leagues were formed in barns in the 1920s, and it has taken a long time for the sport to evolve into what it is today. By comparison, competing in live matches with other players in video games is still in its infancy, said David Ting, the general manager of e-sports at IGN, which operates the IGN Pro League (IPL), in a talk last week at the DICE Summit, the game industry’s elite conference in Las Vegas.

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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.