A Nielsen study entitled “The Esports Playbook: Maximizing Investment Through Understanding The Fans” has revealed some interesting facts on numbers. The headline is that while 71% of respondents believe that esports will become a mainstream activity in the near future, only 53% consider esports to be an actual sport. Nielsen’s …
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the hottest game around right now, selling around 1m copies a month, and just last week hitting 1.5m concurrent users, a peak that is now the new normal for the game as it climbs towards an even higher player cap. In fact, it’s doing so well that …
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Battalion 1944 feels just like Call of Duty 2. This isn’t a surprise, Bulkhead Interactive’s multiplayer first-person shooter proudly proclaims itself as a spiritual successor to World War II classics Medal of Honour and Call of Duty 2, in a campaign that saw 10,096 backers throwing in £317,281 to help …
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Social media focused digital communications agency Kairos Media has announced its acquisition of esports outfit “Lightning Pandas”, which was co-founded by Michael Craddock and Call of Duty pro Shane ‘ShAnE’ McKerral. Craddock is also a co-founder of Kairos Media, and the acquisition marks Kairos’ entry to the esports business, using …
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The North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) has announced a return to the double best-of-one format for its regular season format. Riot switched from best-of-one to a best-of-three series in 2016, claiming that it would give fans more chances to watch their favourites compete. However, Riot have …
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Aaron Rutledge, a lead experience designer at Riot Games, has caused problem suggesting that “we’ll be gucci” if a popular former League of Legends streamer Tyler ‘Tler1’ Steinkamp dies “From a coke overdose or testicular cancer from all the steroids.” Rutledge, posting on the League of Legends subreddit under his handle …
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Method has picked up a team for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds roster, signing three new players to back up Anssi ‘AndyPyro’ Huovinen, who competed under Method’s banner at the Gamescom PUBG invitational event. The new roster is Jamon ‘RaptorDRaptor’ Moretz, Ludvik ‘Aitzy’ Jahnsen, Mathias ‘EnergeticTurtle’ Nielson and Huovinen. "I wanted Raptor on …
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CounterLogic Gaming is releasing its Overwatch team, joining dozens of organisations who have let their teams go in 2017. CLG announced their acquisition of an Overwatch team in December 2016 at Major League Gaming’s Vegas Overwatch tournament, and the roster has remained fairly stable despite a lack of major success …
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The $150,000 Gears Pro Circuit Mexico City has been delayed after natural disasters in the area. The event was scheduled to take place on October 13 to 15 at Mexico City’s World Trade Center, but a series of natural disasters has forced Coalition and Gears Esports to postpone the event …
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Owen ‘Smooya’ Butterfield has been benched from Epsilon Esports’ Counter-Strike roster. Butterfield announced the news himself via a tweet on Wednesday evening. Butterfield joined Epsilon in June alongside Lasse ‘maeve’ Elgaard and Cosmin-Mihai ‘CosmeeeN’ Butuc, replacing William ‘Draken’ Sundin and Henrik ‘REZ’ Sterner. Both players departed the team to join …
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