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After three months of searching,ESPNhas found an editor to helm its newesportssection, sources close to the candidate tell the Daily Dot. The worldwide leader in sports coverageposted the job listingon Sept. 3. And, after a long process of interviews with some of the biggest names in esports, someone has been …
Read More »What Investors Need to Know About ESports
BLH Venture Partners’ Ashish Mistry explains how companies, brands, and investors can capitalize on eSports. ESports is big business today, and it’s only just begun. The eSports ecosystem, a $278 million industry, could surpass $1 billion as early as 2018, according to research firm Newzoo. The firm estimates there are …
Read More »Here’s the future of esports marketing
You might not have noticed, but Worlds 2015 just wrapped up. Not the World Series, but something that for many of us is far more important: the League of Legends World Championship. It’s an esports competition, played in a huge arena and watched by more fans globally than the World …
Read More »VIDEO: Aardvark Swift begins hunt for the next games development star
Those recruitment specialists Aardvark Swift is once again on the hunt for the next games development superstar. The Search for a Star competition has been designed to help wannabe games makers break through the industry’s barriers to entry and improve their chances of landing a job at an established studio. …
Read More »MCV Awards: It’s The Final Countdown
Not just a terrible tune from the ‘80s – it really is the final countdown to nominations closing for the 2016 MCV Awards. If you don’t contact us in the next two days, you’ll be on The Road To Nowhere… The MCV Awards 2016 will take place on Thursday March …
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2016: Five sleeps left till lobbying closes
Christmas presents sorted? Tree up? Ocado food delivery booked? MCV Awards nominations submitted…? If you’ve not contacted us yet to tell us why you, your team or your company should be in the running for an MCV Award, you need to act fast. And when we say fast, we mean …
Read More »YouPorn’s eSports Team Barred From Wearing Uniform at Street Fighter Event
Street Fighter IVplayer Valentin "YP_Valmaster" Petit will compete with some of the best players in the world at the Capcom Cup event in San Francisco this weekend, but he won’t be able to represent his team like the rest of them. That’s because Petit is part of Team YP, the …
Read More »Luminosity’s DreamHack miracle and losing friends
On the opening day of DreamHack Winter, as countless Swedish teens dragged their PC behemoths into a dark, hangar-like complex in Jnkping, five Brazilians suffered the worst debut match imaginable. Having replaced two of their longstanding roster just two days before theFACEIT CS:GOfinals began, Luminosity Gaming faced home favouritesFnaticon Dust …
Read More »Turner and WME | IMG to run a CS:GO championship with finals at CES
Turner Sports plans to expand its esports andCounter-Strikefootprint even further this winter. The American media company made headlines earlier this year after announcing it would run and televise aCounter-Strikeleague. Now the company, along with its partner, the international talent agency, WME | IMG, plans to run a separateCounter-Strike: Global OffensiveChampionship, …
Read More »Capcom Pro Tour 2016 to boast ‘baseline’ $500K prize pool
In a presentation at the conclusion of Sunday’s Capcom Cup 2015,Street Fighterseries executive producer Yoshinori Ono announced the first details of the 2016 Capcom Pro Tour. With a baseline prize pool of half a million dollars, the tour next year will kick off on March 18 with Final Round in …
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