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Both Alliance and Evil Geniuses have revealed new Dota 2 teams, after rumours that both organisations were closing down. A few weeks ago it was rumoured that both Evil Geniuses and Alliance, two teams owned by Twitch/Amazon, would be closing their doors after founder Alex Garfield left the company. However …
Read More »Epsilon eSports replace Natus Vincere in ECS Development League
Epsilon eSports has replaced Natus Vincere in the ECS CS:GO Developmental League as the latter pulled out of the competition at the last minute. Epsilon will now play in the developmental league portion of the ECS Season 2 competition, competing against seven other European CS:GO team to try and book …
Read More »Ex-Shinra execs target devs with interactive streaming platform Genvid
Tools provider that allows creators to implement multiple in-game cameras and interactive elements raises $1.5 million in funding
Read More »Twitch to acquire Curse
Streaming platform Twitch has announced its intention to acquire online tech company Curse. Curse was founded ten years ago and provides a number of services such as game-specific online community tools, a PC mod manager and secure VOIP. In all it attracts around 30m users per month across its network. …
Read More »Twitch’s battle to remain the top dog of eSports streaming
In the face of growing competition, Twitch is still the streaming space’s market leader and this is helped by its pro-gaming content. We speak to eSports boss Nick Allen about staying at the top How would assess 2016 so far for Twitch? With the eSports partnerships we’ve entered into this …
Read More »What is the future of watching eSports?
If you ask people who are not into competitive gaming where you can watch eSports matches, there’s a high probability only one name will be cited: Twitch. But there’s actually much more out there than just the Amazon-owned streaming platform. Azubu, DingIt, YouTube Gaming, MLG.tv, Facebook, the BBC, Ginx… These …
Read More »Influencing the influencers
Joost van Dreunen discusses the growing impact of YouTubers and Twitch streamers, and considers the implications of turning a hobby into a business
Read More »ELEAGUE’s first season pulls in millions of viewers
The first season of ELEAGUE, Turner’s CS:GO league, concluded on Saturday evening and pulled in some incredible numbers. There was more than 168,500 concurrent streams on Twitch for Saturday’s final, with approximately 48 million gross minutes of video consumption across TBS and Twitch. The final was also responsible for 2.9 …
Read More »eSports Advertising Bureau aims to help advertisers enter eSports
The eSports Advertising Bureau has been founded to help brands enter the world of eSports sponsorship and advertisement. The group will offer tools to marketers that will help them understand eSports and it’s potential marketing opportunities, as well as help eSports companies with direct advertising issues. Elsewhere it will coordinate …
Read More »Telltale’s Crowd Play ‘unsuitable for Twitch’
Episodic games dev clarifies limitations for new multiplayer technology
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