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This past weekend saw the Intel Extreme Masters head to Oakland for the first time, with the event pulling in almost half a million concurrent viewers. IEM Oakland reached a peak of 490,000 concurrent viewers across the globe with broadcasts in 14 different languages. Online viewers ended up watching almost …
Read More »Riot’s sale of LCS streaming rights to MLBAM seems inevitable after new report
Riot Games looks set to sell the streaming rights for its League of Legends Championship Series to Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The deal, which was originally reported on by Richard Lewis and Sports Business Daily, seems to be in the final stages of negotiations after a report from the …
Read More »Tempo Storm to purchase Dream Team’s NA Challenger Series slot
Dream Team is selling its place in the North American League of Legends Challenger Series to Tempo Storm. A report from ESPN’s Jacob Wolf first broke the news, with theScore eSports later confirming that the deal is in place. According to Wolf the deal is worth roughly six figures”, with …
Read More »Overwatch’s Symmetra becomes first hero with dual ultimates
The latest patch to go live on the Overwatch PTR has reworked Symmetra and given her an extra ultimate. Symmetra’s teleporter ult is still around, and has been slightly buffed with more shields making it harder to get rid of. However as the teleporter is incredibly situational and a bit …
Read More »New Street Fighter V stage banned from Capcom Pro Tour play
Earlier this month the Street Fighter V team launched a new DLC stage called Skies of Honor, but it has now been banned in pro play. The stage takes place on the wings of a flying plane, the wings, which are the foreground, remain static but the background sees the …
Read More »Ginx announces new daily eSports talk show with Machine, OJ Borg and Nysira
Ginx eSports TV has announced a brand new daily show called The Bridge that will see industry professionals discussing the latest goings on in the world of eSports. The dedicated eSports channel has managed to secure former ESL caster and host Alex “Machine” Richardson, ESL stage host and BBC reporter …
Read More »Disney launches free coding tutorial featuring characters from forthcoming Moana
This as part of Code.org's Hour of Code program
Read More »Motorola is first third-party manufacturer to offer access to Google Daydream
Android Nougat 7.0 update coming to Moto Z and Moto Z Force later this week
Read More »Winners crowned at the first ever eSports Industry Awards
Last night saw the first ever eSports Industry Awards take place at The Brewery in central London. People from across the industry attended the event hoping to get their hands on an award and help celebrate their peers’ achievements. With 14 awards given out live on stream and four awards …
Read More »Pokemon Sun and Moon sell 1.9m copies in Japan
New 3DS titles Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon have failed to match the sales of the series’ 2013 releases. Kotaku reports that Famitsu figures form the pair’s opening weekend in Japan pin unit sales at 1.905m. That’s a little short of the 2.096m sold by 2013’s Pokemon X and Y. …
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