Esports Industry News
September 24, 2019
Louis Vuitton tasked with designing the LoL Worlds Trophy’s travel case and digital merchandise
The world’s most valuable luxury brand Louis Vuitton (LV) has just announced a multilayer partnership with Riot Games that includes design work for Riot’s League of Legends World Championship physical…
October 8, 2019
PlayVIG competitive platform launches an inter-game esports competition
The free-to-play competitive platform PlayVIG just launched what is probably the first ever inter-game esports competition and leaderboard. They launched the so-called Universal Leaderboards, which features a universal points system…
September 19, 2019
VENN raises $17 million – The newest competitor in the esports entertainment industry to launch by 2020
The void in the esports entertainment industry might soon be filled by VENN, the newest brainchild of former Riot Games head of esports content Ariel Horn and Vivendi Universal Games…
November 21, 2019
Konami Creative Center Ginza: announced details on new esports complex
Popular game publisher Konami recently announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2019, that they would be establishing an all new esports complex. This new complex will be part of their…
September 13, 2019
Gen.G draws attention to player health with new campaign
Esports are all about performance. Better, faster, stronger and more more more are what it’s all about – sadly, that often leaves the humans behind the screens in a bad…
September 12, 2019
Team SoloMid set to finally break ground on the ultimate training facility
Among the esports news of over a year ago, NxT Design Studio announced that they, together with at Cresa Real Estate, were working on the design for the new Team…
February 6, 2020
Intel World Open: the Olympic-style esports tournament prior to Tokyo 2020
Intel are one of the major sponsors of esports tournaments around the globe and they are also one of the official partners of the Olympic Games. It is therefore unsurprising…
June 18, 2020
KFC Gaming strikes again in Esports! Rainbow 6 wins the World Cup of Games
KFC is at it again. Ten days after crowning the champion of “World Cup of Games” (Rainbow Six) the KFC Gaming twitter account dropped gold nugget for us two days…
September 3, 2019
CyberBet expands its repertoire with three new titles!
Popular esports bookmaker CyberBet just expanded their game repertoire and added new titles to their line-up. In addition to existing games, fans can now bet on Call of Duty, Hearthstone…
May 13, 2020
Mobile esports revenue: the rise of esports on mobile
Mobile gamers are often disparaged as not being ‘real’ gamers – this is nonsense anyway, but if we take a look at numbers, mobile gaming is one of the most…