| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.12.2024 | 100% stake in AFK Gaming acquired by NODWIN Gaming | NODWIN Gaming, a subsidiary of Nazara Technologies, has announced that it will pay Rs 7.6 crore in cash and equity swaps to acquire a 93% stake in AFK Gaming, a gaming and esports media company.
After previously owning a 7% stake in AFK Gam... |
| 14.11.2024 | Qiddiya's IRL Gaming tour stops at G-Star in Busan, South Korea with an immersive FPS gaming experience introducing the lore unearthing OUTPOST OMEGA™, one of the IRL Gaming zones in the world's first... | BUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- "Unearthing Qiddiya" the global IRL Gaming tour continues. This time with a stop in Busan, South Korea at G-Star where over 250,000 gamers, 1,000 exhibitors and publishers from 40+... |
| 15.02.2023 | G2 Esports Expands To Asia With New ‘League Of Legends: Wild Rift’ Team | G2 Blacklist signal's the team's first foray into the Asian esports scene.G2 Esports |
| 31.01.2023 | ESL Expands Esports Championship Streaming To YouTube, Extends Twitch Deal | ESL's many annual championships are coming to YouTube.ESL / Adela Sznajder |
| 10.01.2023 | Team Vitality Announces 3-Year Hummel Partnership, New Jersey For 2023 | Team Vitality and Hummel unveiled their new black and yellow jersey for 2023 today (January 10).Team Vitality / Hummel |
| 14.11.2022 | Outsiders (Virtus.pro) победила на чемпионате мира IEM Rio Major 2022 по CS:GO | Российская команда Virtus.pro, выступающая под нейтральным флагом и названием Outsiders, заняла первое место на чемпионате мира IEM Rio Major 2022 по CS:GO.
В финале Outsiders сразились с командой из Дании Heroic. Они победили со счётом 2-0... |
| 08.03.2022 | Lightforge Games Raises $15 Million For New RPG From Big-Name Investors | Lightforge Games has raised an impressive $15 million from high-profile investors. Lightforge Games |
| 03.03.2022 | Top Ukrainian official asks Xbox and PlayStation to block Russian gamers | Ukraine is asking Xbox and PlayStation to block Russian accounts.
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Ukraine's vice prime minister asked Xbox and PlayStation to block Russian gamers' accounts.
He appealed to the wider gaming industry, asking for an... |
| 03.03.2022 | Top Ukrainian official asks Xbox and PlayStation to block Russian gamers | Ukraine's vice prime minister asked Xbox and PlayStation to block Russian gamers' accounts.
He appealed to the wider gaming industry, asking for an esports contest ban for Russian players.
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Ukraine's vice prime minister, Mykhai... |
| 22.07.2021 | G4 teams with ESL Gaming to bring esports to television | ESL Gaming, one of the largest esports companies out there, is partnering with G4 to bring esports content to TV. This marks the first time that ESL events will air on linear TV in the U.S. and Canada.
G4 announced its grand return almost a... |
| 31.03.2021 | 6 esports business leaders that you should follow | Esports has become a global phenomenon that has created a new class of super star celebrity and plenty of healthy competition between world-class professional esports teams. In 2019 approximately 32% of Internet users aged between 16 and 24... |
| 24.02.2021 | 19-Year-Old Scottish Teen's Cancer Motivates Entrepreneurial Success | February 24, 2021 7 min read
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Imagine you’re playing a game in which you have to guess the age of a contestant based on the experiences they’ve had in life. One claims to have wo... |
| 03.12.2020 | Fantasy startup Esports One raises $4M more | Esports One, a startup bringing the fantasy approach to esports, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4 million in funding.
When I first wrote about Esports One in April, co-founder and COO Sharon Winter described it as the first... |
| 17.09.2020 | AFK Gaming raises US$200K in pre-Series A funding | AFK Gaming was founded by Nishant Patel, Rakesh Ramchandran, and Siddharth Nayyar in 2012. The startup produces content in various formats such as written, video, live and social. Consequently, helping brands and contest organizers engage w... |
| 05.09.2020 | Multiple ‘CS:GO’ Coaches Caught Cheating; ESIC Opens Inquiry | The CS:GO pro scene could be changes forever. Getty Images |
| 19.03.2020 | Professional eSports Company ESL Postpones 2020 Tournament, Along With $1M Purse | Professional eSports competitors vying for the $1 million purse that was to be awarded at this weekend's ESL One Los Angeles 2020 tournament had to hit the pause button when their event at the Shrine Auditorium was postponed due to the coro... |
| 09.01.2020 | Torneios de Hearthstone e StarCraft II terão novidades em 2020 | A Blizzard já está se preparando para sua temporada 2020 de esports. A empresa trará o Hearthstone Masters com o dobro de etapas e premiação em torno de R$ 1 milhão, mas o valor pode ser ainda maior. Além disso, duas parcerias também foram ... |
| 08.04.2019 | Backed by top VC firms, Seattle cloud video startup Make.TV inks another key live streaming deal | Make.TV CEO Andreas Jacobi. (Make.TV Photos)
Make.TV continues to bolster its live streaming resume.
The Seattle-based startup has expanded its partnership with ESL, the world’s largest esports organization that runs competitions across the... |
| 11.07.2018 | Esports should follow skateboarding’s lead to going mainstream | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If esports wants to make it big, and I mean reall... |
| 11.07.2018 | Esports should follow skateboarding’s lead to going mainstream | If esports wants to make it big, and I mean really big — “your colleagues talking about at work” big — it needs a Tony Hawk. Here’s why. Skateboarding and esports are not sports right? Hello, Olympics
Alongside punk rock sports like surfing... |
| 17.06.2018 | ESL’s North American chief on the esports explosion at E3 | Esports is in its early days, but Yvette Martinez-Rea was around during its early, early days, waiting to see when it was going to take off. But in the past year, it’s fair to say esports has exploded and that was evident at the Electronic ... |
| 17.06.2018 | ESL’s North American chief on the esports explosion at E3 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Esports is in its early days, but Yvette Martinez-Rea was around during its early, early days, waiting to see when it was going to take... |
| 01.03.2018 | Caffeine will bring ESL’s esports events to its social broadcasting platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Caffeine announced a deal with ESL, the big independent esports tournament company, to bring esports events to Caffeine’s social broadc... |
| 01.03.2018 | Caffeine will bring ESL’s esports events to its social broadcasting platform | Caffeine announced a deal with ESL, the big independent esports tournament company, to bring esports events to Caffeine’s social broadcasting platform. Live coverage kicks off this week with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive at the Intel Ext... |
| 23.01.2018 | Facebook vai transmitir campeonatos de eSports ao vivo | O Facebook também está de olho na audiência crescente dos esportes eletrônicos.
A rede social de Mark Zuckerberg fechou uma parceria a ESL, uma das maiores organizadoras mundiais de eventos de eSports, para transmitir com exclusividade algu... |
| 23.01.2018 | PUBG Corp. announces where its $2 million in charity money is going | PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds enabled its players to support charity by purchasing keys to unlock crates during its prerelease Early Access phase on Steam last year, and now developer PUBG Corp. is revealing how it’s going to distribute tha... |
| 23.01.2018 | PUBG Corp. announces where its $2 million in charity money is going | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds enabled its players to support charity by purchasing keys to unlock crates during its prerelease Early Ac... |
| 15.12.2017 | Overwatch League’s success could remake esports | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For years, esports has developed and grown organically and without much structure, a real Wild West of teams and leagues and sponsors. ... |
| 15.12.2017 | Overwatch League’s success could remake esports | For years, esports has developed and grown organically and without much structure, a real Wild West of teams and leagues and sponsors. Game publishers were so happy that people were buying, playing, and talking about their games that they w... |
| 07.09.2017 | Facebook becomes exclusive livestream partner for Paladins Premier League | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Game publisher Hi-Rez Studios and esports team organization World Esports Association (WESA) announced that Facebook will be the exclus... |
| 07.09.2017 | Facebook becomes exclusive livestream partner for Paladins Premier League | Game publisher Hi-Rez Studios and esports team organization World Esports Association (WESA) announced that Facebook will be the exclusive livestreaming partner for the new Paladins Premier League.
The move takes Facebook further into espor... |
| 13.06.2017 | LA offers a fertile playing field for esports investments | Minard Hamilton Contributor
Minard Hamilton, is a partner at BITKRAFT Esports Ventures, an early stage investor and incubator with offices in both Berlin and Santa Monica.
It’s 78° and sunny in Venice. The southwest swell is drawing surfers... |
| 20.05.2017 | Facebook Teams Up With ESL To Bring Esports To The Social Media Platform | Kevin Billings, Tech Times 20 May 2017, 11:05 am
The esports scene has become a major attraction over the last few years, with major networks and internet platforms looking to provide some kind of option in the space. Facebook has decided t... |
| 16.03.2017 | Poland’s Intel Extreme Masters was biggest event in esports history with 173,000 spectators | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
More than 173,000 fans attended the Intel Extreme Masters event in Katowice, Poland, making it the biggest esports event in history.
Sp... |
| 16.03.2017 | Poland’s Intel Extreme Masters was biggest event in esports history with 173,000 spectators | More than 173,000 fans attended the Intel Extreme Masters event in Katowice, Poland, making it the biggest esports event in history.
Sponsored by Intel, the event’s operator is esports tournament company ESL. The tournament saw increased at... |
| 13.10.2016 | African Gaming League aims to jumpstart esports in Nigeria | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Africa hasn’t participated in the global game economy much, but some entrepreneurs in Nigeria want to change that by diving into esport... |
| 10.05.2016 | Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group teams up with ESL to create esports TV shows | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lionsgate‘s Pilgrim Media Group is pairing up wit... |
| 10.05.2016 | Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group teams up with ESL to create esports TV shows | Lionsgate‘s Pilgrim Media Group is pairing up with competitive game tournament organizer ESL to create unscripted digital and television programming around esports.
The question has been which of the traditional networks and production comp... |
| 23.04.2016 | Esports league bans YouPorn’s pro gamer squad | As competitive gaming strives for mainstream acceptance, one of the biggest organizations is forcing out a sponsor that specializes in pornography.
ESL (Electronic Sports League) is blocking any association with pro group Team YP because it... |
| 23.04.2016 | Esports league bans YouPorn’s pro gamer squad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As competitive gaming strives for mainstream acceptance, one of the biggest organizations is forcing out a sponsor that specializes in ... |
| 17.02.2016 | Gaming network app Gamezop raises $350K in seed funding | Delhi-based Advergame Technologies Pvt Ltd, that operates mobile-based gaming network app, has raised $350,000 in a seed-funding round led by
Delhi-based talent management firm KWAN Entertainment & Marketing Solutions Pvt Ltd. Existing ... |
| 05.01.2016 | 100+ Sports Business Professionals Discuss Hot Topics, Bold Predictions For 2016 | Last year, I posed two questions to 85-plus sports business professionals heading into 2015: what are the trends and hot topics to follow in the industry and also, how will the different niches within sports (legal, business, fantasy, media... |
| 18.08.2015 | Intel shows how we should celebrate gaming, not fear it | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — The world’s biggest chip maker has a vested interest in helping gaming succeed, as the pastime pushes the envelope for ... |
| 18.08.2015 | Intel shows how we should celebrate gaming, not fear it | SAN FRANCISCO — The world’s biggest chip maker has a vested interest in helping gaming succeed, as the pastime pushes the envelope for computing technology and creates new demand for high-tech technology.
Nevertheless, Intel showed today th... |
| 01.07.2015 | Sweden’s MTG buys a 74% share in ESL, the ‘world’s largest e-sports company’, for €78 million | Swedish digital entertainment giant Modern Times Group (MTG) has agreed to acquire 74% of Los Angeles-based Turtle Entertainment, the world’s largest e-sports company well known for its ESL Gaming Network brand, for a total consideration of... |
| 20.04.2015 | SanDisk extends its partnership with ESL in 2015 | Now official SSD sponsor for ESL National Championship in Germany, France and UK
SanDisk Corporation has announced it will be extending its partnership with ESL, the world's largest esports company, in 2015.
SanDisk will this year sponsor t... |
| 09.04.2015 | Fantasy eSports site Vulcan raises $12 million | If you're still getting used to the idea that 89 million people frequently watch competitive video game playing, or eSports, and that the United States government recognizes League of Legends players as professional athletes, you're going t... |
| 08.05.2007 | Hyperia, online gaming network, raises $3M more | Hyperpia, a Fremont, Calif. online gaming company, has raised around $3 million in third round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Wire. BlueRun Ventures led the deal, with John Malloy taking a board seat.
VentureBeat V... |
| - | The video game world starts moving to cut off Russia amid outcry over Ukraine war | Video game companies including EA and CD Projekt are taking steps to reduce their business in Russia or halt operations in the country altogether.
Ukraine has called on Microsoft and Sony to block all Russian and Belarusian accounts and can... |
