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Read More »eSports Industry Awards to hit London November 21st
Industry awards ceremony celebrating the talent in the meteoric international eSports scene to land later this year
Read More »$2.5m Halo World Championship prize pot is biggest for an eSports first-person shooter yet
Microsoft has announced that the prize pool for its Halo World Championship now stands at a cool $2.5 million. The platform holder revealed this via Xbox Wire, and also named the 16 US and Canadian teams set for the final. Venture Beat – citing tracking site eSports Earnings – reports …
Read More »GAME buys Spanish eSports platform SocialNAT
Retailer GAME has made another big eSports purchase, this time in Spain. A little under a year ago GAME swooped to acquire Multiplay for 20m. Now it has reached an agreement to acquire SocialNAT for an undisclosed sum. SocialNAT has over 150k registered users. It organised the eSports activities at …
Read More »Blizzard ushers in big changes to Hearthstone
Many of the most popular cards in the Hearthstone library will be excluded from what Blizzard will position as the new standard ranked play mode for its card battler. The developer last night announced some big changes to the title, not least of which is its split into two types …
Read More »Blizzard pumping $4m into Heroes of the Storm eSports circuit
Blizzard are fronting $4m in total across this year’s spring, summer and fall seasons of MOBA Heroes of the Storm. The money will be split across the three seasons leading up to BlizzCon’s Global Championship in autumn, and shared among the seven regions of localised competition around the world. Joining …
Read More »Ex-TSM Counter-Strike players form Astralis, become co-owners
A Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team has become the latest eSports squad to self-organise and determine their own future. Since leaving Team SoloMid at the end of last year – citing the complexities of living in Europe while being managed from the US West Coast – the Danish team has …
Read More »Titan shuts down when sponsors back out after CS:GO hacking scandal
Titan, one of the most well-known new multi-discipline eSports franchises of the last two years has shuttered its doors. The team, which began with a Malaysian Dota team who placed in the top 10 at Valve’s The International in 2013, expanded to cover Quake, CS:GO and most recently, Smite. However, …
Read More »Activision buys MLG to ‘create the ESPN of eSports’
Activision has confirmed its acquisition of eSports giant Major League Gaming, and says it wants to create the ‘ESPN of eSports’. The eSports Observer reported that the firm was being acquired in a $46 million deal last week, although Activision has not revealed any financial details on the purchase. MLG …
Read More »Fantasy sports dropped by Vulcun
Vulcun has announced they are dropping the fantasy sports section of their eSports entertainment venture from January 14th. The site originally began as a way to offer regulated fantasy drafting competitions across international borders, however recent litigation efforts by several US states have made such ventures risky. Last month, New …
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