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After livestreaming events, eSports gain new audiences through video on demand on YouTube. Watching videos of other people playing video games has become the new Saturday morning cartoons for millennials—except they’re doing this every day, according to Ryan Wyatt, global head of content for gaming at YouTube. Read more at …
Read More »Halo 5’s Unprecedented Teen Rating Is Meaningless For Sales, Potentially Important For eSports
The ESRB has ruled, and somehow, some way,MicrosoftMSFT-0.26%‘sHalo 5: Guardianshas landed itself a Teen rating. While it seems logical for the largely gore-freeHaloseries, it is the firstHalogame ever to land itself a T-for-Teen instead of M-for-Mature from the ratings board. What’s different this time around? See if you can tell: …
Read More »Here’s why Verizon is breaking into eSports
Verizon wants to sell broadband and more to gamers. Verizon is joining other big brands likeCoca-Cola and Red Bullin marketing to the massive eSports audience. The communications giant has partnered with local gaming center and cafe Epic Gaming Lounge to host the EGL Dallas 10K video game tournament Aug. 7-9 …
Read More »Nvidia revenue up 5% thanks to eSports and PC growth
GeForce creator Nvidia today released its financials for the quarter ended July 26, with the firm posting a 5 percent revenue increase, thanks, in part, to the rise of eSports and the continued growth of PC gaming. Nvidiasaw revenue jump from $1.153 billion from $1.103 – a marginal increase on …
Read More »Did a Philippine League of Legends Team Commit Multiple Breaches of Contract?
Wargods.GameX, one of the top League of Legends teams in the Garena Pro Gaming Series (PGS), is currently under fire for allegations of contract breaches with the game publisher’s professional league. Garena Philippines, the country publisher for Riot’s League of Legends, maintains and oversees the PGS. Under the rules of …
Read More »Blizzard registers trademark for "Compete"
Blizzardhas registered a trademark for "Compete", an eSport tournament creation system. Specifically,the trademarkis for "Providing an online non-downloadable Internet-based system application featuring technology enabling users to organize and promote e-sports tournaments, to create and customize tournament brackets and ladders, track tournament progress, maintain related statistics, and post results." Read more …
Read More »Game Digital boosted by eSports as console sales slump
Game Digital, the video games retailer, has said revenues have been held back by a sharp fall in the sale of consoles following the launches of Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Sales in the group’s hardware division were dragged down by prices of consoles falling by around a fifth, although …
Read More »MCV’s Daily Must Reads (Jan 25th 2012)
Here at MCVuk.com we spend all day reading the internet. Hundreds of sites. Millions of words. But if we were to recommend, say, five stories to read, what would they be? Funny you should ask that, because they would be these: Interview: GAME and the state of retail (Spong) Much …
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