Improving integrity standards across esports is of absolute importance for its continued growth and move into the mainstream.  With the majority of tournaments, at least the qualifying stages, played out online and with the numerous distinct esports titles offering their own unique challenges, the battle to ensure a level of integrity befitting an industry with the money and viewership that …

iSport Genius Co-Founder and Partner Nathan Rothschild is speaking at the inaugural Betting on Sports conference (September 15-16) in London on the topic of how to provide US sports to the European player.  The panel, which is being sponsored by Don Best Sports, will also feature Peter Bertilsson and Benjie Cherniak.  You can read more about the Betting on Sports Conference …

The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) announced recently that daily fantasy sports is exempt from the requirement of a gambling licence. This is evidently the first step towards the skill-based licensing framework which will likely take Malta to the centre stage of DFS action in Europe. It should also attract an influx of new operators to the island. In its press release, …

Winamax has become the first operator to offer daily fantasy sports in France. Having signed up national team manager Raymond Domenech as a brand ambassador it is currently the only operator allowed to offer real money DFS to customers, though more are expected to follow in the near future. Domenech will contribute weekly team line ups alongside content for the …

Moritz Maurer is the Head of Esports at Betgenius. Ahead of Betting on Sports 2016 (#bettingonsports), at which there’ll be four esports focused panels in total and one of which Moritz will be leading, we caught up with him to talk skin betting, how to approach esports fans and desktop vs mobile. SBC: Are you surprised it took as long as …

The result of a love affair between Turner and WME | IMG, the ELEAGUE has announced the dates and format for its forthcoming second season. The preliminary rounds of the CS:GO league will start on Wednesday September 7th, with a four week group stage schedule set to begin on Friday October 21st.  ELEAGUE’s Grand Final will be held Saturday December 3rd and will culminate …

Phil Kornyshev is the co-founder of PVP.ME, a live esports betting platform. Having spoken at the iGaming Super Show in Amsterdam earlier this year, now he has turned his attention to exploring the recent skins betting drama for SBC News. Heres’ what he had to say…  The gambling boom of Counter Strike: Global Offensive started just over three years ago, …

Bookmaker 888Sport has showed its innovative side by releasing a Pokemon Go inspired betting game for mobile.  The game allows users to hunt down free bets to catch. These will be situated around football stadiums throughout the UK and whilst the game is tied in with its relationship with four Championship clubs; Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Brentford and Preston North …

  Everybody likes a top ten. As far as esports goes being the best has become far more lucrative in recent years with big money tournaments popping up across games, and the likes of The International’s prize pool growing year on year. Now the bookmaker bwin has put together what it believes to be the top ten players worldwide. To …

Konami, the developer behind Pro Evolution Soccer, has announced that next month’s PES 2017, will include a feature allowing players to take part in a PES League Esports competition. Jonas Lygaard, Senior Director of Brand and Business Development at Konami said: “As the PES series continues to go from strength to strength, we are exploring a number of ways to build its …