Esports Industry News
September 2, 2022
FaZe McDonald’s Partnership Announced After Funding Failure
FaZe Clan is one of the biggest names in esports. They operate teams in most of the major games. The clan is even publicly traded. FaZe Clan is an esports…
November 7, 2024
Ninja Quit Streaming After Fortnite Opponent Uses a Rift to Go
This week Ninja has shocked the streaming world after walking off his stream seemingly Twitch as a whole. The streamer had a rough moment. He raged at rift to go…
February 20, 2023
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…
August 24, 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…
March 29, 2024
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…
October 20, 2024
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…
August 10, 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…
August 10, 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…
August 10, 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…
August 4, 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.…