Esports Industry News
November 4, 2019
ESport Manager game comes to the Nintendo Switch
This week has seen the release of ESport Manager for the Nintendo Switch. The game has been available for PC gamers since June 2018, but now Nintendo fans will be…
August 26, 2022
Betway offers $1,000 prize for StarLadder Major betting
The popular betting site Betway have revealed a generous new competition for the StarLadder Major CSGO tournament. This promises to give the winner $/€1,000 in cash as well as the…
August 27, 2019
HBO Ballers and Esports – a genius combo
Popular HBO show Ballers, featuring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson just announced that their latest and final season is going to be featuring esports. More specifically, it will feature League of…
August 23, 2019
To pay or not to pay – Scandals in the esports world
Employment is a pretty straight-forward deal. The employee performs a task as part of their job, and their employer pays them for it. So far so easy – except that…
January 19, 2021
Esports and the Real Estate Paradox
The esports industry is taking on an importance that could rival cinema at any time. The social impact is overwhelming. In this way, just as the Rialto Theater represented a…
August 4, 2023
Terminator Blast Off – An explosive partnership
The Blast Pro Series: Moscow 2019 is a pretty big name in the CS:GO world. The Russia-based tournament has a prize pool of a cool quarter million USD. They will…
August 29, 2019
Ford launches Frodzilla, their own Motor Racing Team of Esports
In a new leap into the virtual world, on August 19, 2019, Ford Motors announced its incursion into the world of esports by putting its own team behind the digital…
August 21, 2019
The Netherlands’ first dedicated esports stadium is coming!
In Europe, there are several big esports nations – the UK, Germany and France… the Netherlands doesn’t quite measure up. Still, like anywhere else, there are lots and lots of…
June 1, 2020
The breakfast of champions: Kellogg’s sponsors esports
There’s no shortage of non-esports brands that invest in and spend on esports ventures – from car brands to mobile phone providers, just about everyone wants a slice of the…
June 30, 2020
FGC bans female Street Fighter Pro for inappropriate behaviour
As in any type of environment, really, the organisers of esports events have to take care in order to make sure that none of their attendees are harassed or otherwise…