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The creators of the Mirror’s Premiership fantasy football offering and mobile app; the Fantasy iTeam (FiT) have teamed up with Goal.com to create a new and individual fantasy offering for users; the European Super League. This is unique in that it’ll be the first fantasy product in which players can make selections from the top five major European leagues; the …

Pinnacle Sports dedicated eSports market is  set to offer customers the highest ever limits on TI5 matches at next week’s The International Dota 2 Championships. The limits will rise to an eye watering $100,000 (£ 64,000) for the Grand Final on August 8th. This is particularly significant in that this is a higher amount than the standard limits Pinnacle offer …

Fantasy sports operator Mondogoal have agreed a partnership with Tottenham to become the Premier League club’s Official Fantasy Sports Partner. Few details have been revealed about the terms of the deal, but it’s been confirmed that Mondogoal will be developing a club branded fantasy football game for Spurs fans worldwide. This is intended to be launched before the beginning of …

AIM-listed bingo operator Stride Gaming plc has bought InfiApps Limited, a profitable internationally-focused mobile social gaming company, for up to US$39.2m, over half of which will be paid in cash, while the remainder triggered by earn-out targets over the next two years. The acquisition will provide the Stride Gaming group with an entry into the social gaming segment of online …

The world’s largest organised eSports body, the ESL, has launched the industry’s first 24/7 Counter Strike channel via popular streaming platform, Twitch. It will be integrated fully into tv.eslgaming.com (ESL media directory), and will primarily offer coverage of the ESL ESEA Pro League’s weekly Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The ambitious long term plan is to gradually introduce new channels which’ll cover …

A further step in eSports being recognised by a  wider audience as a ‘proper’ sport is set to be introduced; with drug testing to become a compulsory part of official competitions. The world of eSports was partially shook recently after an ex professional gamer admitted that he and his team “were all on Adderall”, during a Counter Strike: Global Offensive …

The US tech industry has branded the birth of another ‘Unicorn’ as daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator DraftKings announces that it has raised $300 million (£195 million) in series D funding. 21 Century Fox’s Fox Sports division contributed the majority of the rounds funding capital, other investors included venture capital firms Atlas Ventures, Kraft Group and Raine Group. This latest …

Following last week’s announcement that it would spend $250 million on Disney ESPN inventory over the next two years, US daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings continues to ramp up its marketing coverage by announcing an exclusive partnership with Major League Soccer (MLS). The MLS will become the fifth professional sports league/body to become an official partner of DraftKings joining the …

Daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator DraftKings is set to further its relationship with Walt Disney Company owned US sports network ESPN, by committing $250 million (£160 million) in ad-spend over the next two years. DraftKings will become the exclusive DFS partner to ESPN owned media channels and digital inventory as the operator secures its biggest advertising partnership and secures nationwide …

Introducing eSports to the gambling sector will be a key theme at EIG 2015 (Berlin  Arena Halle 20-22 October). The rise of competitive platforms in eSports has seen a number of questions being asked of this contemporary industry SBC caught up with Rahul Sood Co-Founder and CEO of Unikrn, an eSports competitive platform that plans to lead this exciting and …