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Perfect World China has recently unveiled its newest title,Ultimate Weapon, which it intends to utilize to secure a foothold into Chinese eSports. Currently, the Chinese eSports scene is dominated by Tencent Games, but Perfect World does have rights to thehighly popularDota 2in the region. Read more at All In >>>
Read More »Halo 5: Guardians signals return to eSports competitions
Halo 5: Guardians, the latest title in Microsoft’s $4.5bn video game franchise,launched on Xbox Onethis week with a renewed focus on competitive multiplayer gaming, known as eSports. When Halo first launched in 2001, it acted as a catalyst for eSports, according to Microsoft. Even before the Xbox Live service became …
Read More »Global ESports revenues to surpass $1.9 billion by 2018
SuperData Research forecasts an explosion of growth in eSports in the U.S. thanks in part to televised events on TBS and ESPN in 2016 and beyond. With big eSports events on the horizon like Riot Games’League of LegendsWorlds and Blizzard Entertainment’s BlizzCon, which featuresStarCraft II, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone,andHeroes of …
Read More »League of Legends pro squad Team Impulse is for sale
Sat on aBrewster’s Millions-style cash pile and no idea how to blow it fast? Maybe it’s time to think about buying an esports team—like Team Impulse, for instance, which is now up for sale, along with its spot in the 2016League of LegendsChampionship Series. Read more at PC Gamer Pro …
Read More »Two more esports organizations announce Overwatch teams
Esports franchises are falling over themselves to get involved inOverwatchfrom day one. Fnatic‘sBattlefieldteam has likely already made the move, while esports organizationTempo Stormhas sought to lock up talent ahead of the launch. Now K1ck Esports Club has become the latest organization to announce a team for the game. The squad …
Read More »Dignitas must sell its European League of Legends team
After running into some legal issues by owning twoLeague of LegendsLCS qualified teams, Team Dignitas was forced to sell off at least one by Riot Games. A month-long bidding war for the two teams finally ended with Team Dignitas making the decision to sell off its European counterpart. The buyer …
Read More »The carry: The strange career of a League of Legends star
In the brief history of professional League of Legends, there might not be another European player who generated as much hype and excitement as Martin ‘Rekkles’ Larsson. When he debuted for Fnatic in 2014 – a proud eSports organization that predates League, and whose team won the first-ever LoL world …
Read More »Analytics firm Newzoo partners with Fnatic for access to valuable eSports data
Amsterdam-based video game industry research firm Newzoo BV has announced that it is partnering with Euorpean eSports organization Fnatic as part of a plan to expand its data insights in the rapidly growing professional competitive gaming scene. Fnatic has professional teams in several of the biggest eSports games, includingLeague of …
Read More »The best Battlefield 4 team just quit to play a new game (and it’s probably Overwatch)
Fnatic‘sBattlefield 4team have been the best in the world for some time. But now the team is quitting the game with a new pasture on the horizon. Overwatch‘s beta arrives on Tuesday and very few people have got their hands on the game. But big players in the esports scene …
Read More »eSports Is Big Time: Pro Video Gaming League Eyes Global Distribution, Drug Testing
The Electronic Sports League (ESL)is already one of the largest eSports organizations in the world. But it’s looking toexpandits global reachby 2017—with partnering and drug-testing key parts of the plan. ESL runs its own eSports tournamentsand partners with publishers like Blizzard Entertainment to help them organize their professional competitions, running …
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