Esports Industry News

Mobile Games
August 23, 2022

New Genshin Impact x Pizza Hut collaboration is happening in China

Genshin Impact has become increasingly popular this summer. Because the mobile game is so well-known, we frequently see brands working with it to increase their consumer base. Pizza Hut is…
Esports Industry
August 22, 2022

eBay is acquiring TCGplayer for $294 Million consolidating the marketplace

eBay has this week announced that they’ve reached an agreement with one of the biggest trading game marketplaces. eBay will acquire TCGplayer, massively consolidating the trading card marketplace. Both already…
Esports Industry
August 19, 2022

Vitality CS:GO and GG.BET make serious buzz with new partnership

It’s official, GG.BET and Team Vitality’s CS:GO team are about to make your slips bounce. The brand new partnership comes just in time for BLAST Premier Fall Groups. Vitality will…
Opinion Esports
August 15, 2022

New Esports Casters: Are They Game-Changing or Game-Breaking?

Following a packed summer period of esports tournaments, a debate opened up regarding the nature of modern-day esports casters. In particular, the discussions targeted so-called ‘hypecasters’ and their seemingly incessant…
Opinion Esports
August 8, 2022

Indonesia banning game apps already hurt local esports growth

Last week, Indonesia was in the gaming world headlines for all the wrong reasons. Swift regulation with no grace period stated that: all tech companies have to register with Indonesian…
Esports Industry
August 8, 2022

Constant game bans by the Indian Gov seriously affects esports growth

It’s been a week since the the Indian Government banned Battlegrounds Mobile in the country. The game was taken off the Apple Store and Google Playstore, with developer Krafon receiving…
Blizzard
August 8, 2022

Blizzard hitting less than 100M MAUs, sets up good press for fall releases

There was some troubling news for Activision Blizzard this week after it was confirmed that the number of monthly active users had decreased to less than 100 million. Microsoft had…
Sports Games
August 3, 2022

EA Sports and La Liga partner up in EA’s first big move since FIFA divorce

EA Sports and Spain’s premier football league, La Liga, have struck up a new deal that will make EA Sports the sponsor for the league for the next five years.…
Esports Industry
August 3, 2022

Commonwealth Esports Championship brings esports to Birmingham 2022

Commonwealth events traditionally didn’t rhythm with Esports, whereby the mainstream’s depiction of sports is physical and sweaty. Fast-forwarding to the Commonwealth Esports Championship 2022, it’s evident that esports is gaining…
Counter-Strike
July 28, 2022

Champion of Champions Tour finally gets going with Regional Qualifiers

Registrations for the Central Europe and South American open qualifiers to the first series of the Champion of Champions Tour are now open. The caveat: only teams and players from…
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