Esports Industry News
April 17, 2024
Who Is Regulating Esports? – All Esports Regions Regulations
When esports began its transition to the mainstream, rules needed to be put in place to get the space ready for such growth, in attempting to create a base ruleset…
August 22, 2024
Video Game Movies – Are heading into a new golden age?
This year’s E3 was a little underwhelming for some, but one specific brand of announcement represents a growing change in the video game industry. In the weeks around E3, not…
June 15, 2021
Adderall in Esports – How big is the problem and can it be fixed?
Last week CDL pro player Huke revealed the extent of his Adderall use. In a 30-minute video, the competitive player came up publicly with the way in which he utilized…
May 30, 2021
High school varsity esports meets Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Kart and Splatoon 2
There are probably few esports games as suitable for school audiences as Nintendo games are. Traditionally violence-free, they combine bright colours and gaming fun with a decent challenge and skill…
May 27, 2021
Cooldown and OpTic Gaming launch esports viewing parties for pubs
This week a new service called Cooldown has launched bringing esports into a new territory. The service allows fans to organize viewing parties in local bars or pubs. They’ll be…
May 10, 2021
Esports Fashion Week unveiled with Shady as first partner
The esports industry has close ties to quite a lot of other industries. It naturally links to gaming, to computer hard- and soft-ware, to things like esports betting and by…
May 27, 2021
Esports to Invest In – Long-term prospects and new avenues of approach
As with any fast-growing industry, there is lots of interest in esports investment right now. The biggest focus is on companies and titles that are successful already. Let us instead…
April 28, 2021
AimLab is shaking up the FPS world with Valorant and R6 specific content
Historically, to get better at a specific game, you needed to play it more. This means you need to wait in queues, deal with bad team-mates, and get maps you…
April 15, 2021
Gender-segregated F1 Esports tournament sparks controversy
It’s not exactly a big secret that a disturbing number of gamers are quite sexist towards women. Most aren’t, of course, but there are enough to leave a sour taste…
April 13, 2021
Astralis Group stock could double in value after OTCQX listing
Popular Danish esports organization Astralis made a big move recently. The group announced on April 6th they have applied to the OTCQX, the highest tier of over-the-counter (OTC) stock market…