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Former CEO and co-founder Dan Connors taking the reins

The Esports Integrity Coalition was formed last year with the intention of making sure eSports competitions remain fair and regulated. Since then it has entered multiple partnerships with many eSports companies, along with a lot of betting companies to ensure that issues such as match fixing and doping are eliminated …

The first details of the Evo Japan event that was first announced last year have been revealed, and it seems we have a while longer to wait.  The Evo Japan fighting game tournament will not take place until 2018, when it will hit the Akihabara UDX event center in Tokyo. …

At the end of last year Riot and BAMTech, an offshoot of MLB, agreed a reported $350 million broadcast rights deal for League of Legends eSports.  Since then we have heard very little, but according to Riot’s co-head of esports Jarred Kennedy, a new streaming service for LoL eSports is …

ESL has announced that the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event was the biggest eSports event in history.  173,000 people attended the event over the two weekends, which is well above any other eSports event, while online broadcasts reached more than 46 million unique online viewers, a 35% growth from last …

YouTube has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights to the ECS CS:GO competition.  The league, which is run by FACEIT, was previously broadcast on Twitch, however the new deal will see all of the ECS content, including live streams, be broadcast on YouTube. This will allow FACEIT to make use of …

Ubisoft has announced the return of the Rainbow Six Siege Pro League competition for its second year.  This year there is a few changes to the competition, with the most notable being the switch to PC only. In the first year the Pro League featured both a PC and Xbox …

There was a time when The Yogscast was synonymous with World of Warcraft and Minecraft Let’s Play videos. Since then, however, the Bristol-based production firm has grown into a full-blown media company with multiple brands across a variety of digital platforms. Not only does it have a network of over …

SpatialOS outfit hire top legal and financial roles

Downing, Tafler and Oliver all step up at Sega Europe and Dan Sheridan joins nDreams. Three senior promotions at Sega The European arm of Sega has made three senior promotions to its marketing and brand teams. Anna Downing (pictured right) has been named as Sega Europe’s new marketing director, Rowan …