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Curse Inc. has released a new white paper that highlights the advantages of having VoIP implemented into online games. The data within it shows Curse Voice’s progress since its creation and the positive growth that games implemented with the VoIP have seen. There is huge market potential for VoIP since …
Read More »eSports are huge on YouTube – even though most coverage isn’t live
After livestreaming events, eSports gain new audiences through video on demand on YouTube. Watching videos of other people playing video games has become the new Saturday morning cartoons for millennials—except they’re doing this every day, according to Ryan Wyatt, global head of content for gaming at YouTube. Read more at …
Read More »Halo 5’s Unprecedented Teen Rating Is Meaningless For Sales, Potentially Important For eSports
The ESRB has ruled, and somehow, some way,MicrosoftMSFT-0.26%‘sHalo 5: Guardianshas landed itself a Teen rating. While it seems logical for the largely gore-freeHaloseries, it is the firstHalogame ever to land itself a T-for-Teen instead of M-for-Mature from the ratings board. What’s different this time around? See if you can tell: …
Read More »Here’s why Verizon is breaking into eSports
Verizon wants to sell broadband and more to gamers. Verizon is joining other big brands likeCoca-Cola and Red Bullin marketing to the massive eSports audience. The communications giant has partnered with local gaming center and cafe Epic Gaming Lounge to host the EGL Dallas 10K video game tournament Aug. 7-9 …
Read More »Nvidia revenue up 5% thanks to eSports and PC growth
GeForce creator Nvidia today released its financials for the quarter ended July 26, with the firm posting a 5 percent revenue increase, thanks, in part, to the rise of eSports and the continued growth of PC gaming. Nvidiasaw revenue jump from $1.153 billion from $1.103 – a marginal increase on …
Read More »Did a Philippine League of Legends Team Commit Multiple Breaches of Contract?
Wargods.GameX, one of the top League of Legends teams in the Garena Pro Gaming Series (PGS), is currently under fire for allegations of contract breaches with the game publisher’s professional league. Garena Philippines, the country publisher for Riot’s League of Legends, maintains and oversees the PGS. Under the rules of …
Read More »Blizzard registers trademark for "Compete"
Blizzardhas registered a trademark for "Compete", an eSport tournament creation system. Specifically,the trademarkis for "Providing an online non-downloadable Internet-based system application featuring technology enabling users to organize and promote e-sports tournaments, to create and customize tournament brackets and ladders, track tournament progress, maintain related statistics, and post results." Read more …
Read More »Game Digital boosted by eSports as console sales slump
Game Digital, the video games retailer, has said revenues have been held back by a sharp fall in the sale of consoles following the launches of Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Sales in the group’s hardware division were dragged down by prices of consoles falling by around a fifth, although …
Read More »Former EA exec Frank Gibeau joins Zynga
Frank Gibeau, an EA veteran of nearly 25 years, has joined mobile gaming company Zynga. The former EA executive VP has been appointed to the publisher’s board of directors.Gibeau left EA in May this yearafter more than two decades with the company. Zynga has the products, the people and the …
Read More »eSports needs better regulation, says Mount & Blade studio Taleworlds
The world of eSports needs to improve its regulations to cut down on abusive and offensive behaviour from certain pro-gamers. That’s according to Frank Elliott, community and PR manager at Mount & Blade: Warband studio Taleworlds Entertainment. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom about what is driving the growth of the …
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