‘UK eSports is a sleeping giant’ – Gfinity reflects on gaming arena’s first year

Gfinity says it has been ‘a brilliant first year’ sinceopening its eSports arenain London.

The company transformed theVue Cinema Fulham Broadway multiplex into a dedicated 600-person capacity competitive gaming venue called the Gfinity Arena in March 2015.

Speaking to PCR at theVainglory European Winter Championshipsthis weekend (which saw gaming pros playing against one another using tablet devices), Gfinity’shead of partner relations Martin Wyatt said: "It’s been a brilliant first year – we’re about a week away from our first birthday in terms of being in this physical space.

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