Tag Archives: eSports

The YouPorn sponsored esports team, Team YP, has been banned by the Electronic Sports League (ESL) as it is in breach of the organisation’s advertising rules.  In a statement issued to VentureBeat by the ESL this was what was said on the matter: “Advertising pornography is not legal in the markets we operate in, and the vast majority of partners …

Late last week the Gfinity app went live on the Xbox One store. The free tournament builder app will allow Xbox players to create and manage their own cups, leagues, ladders and competitions from their console. It’s a significant boost for the UK esports scene, and will have the added bonus of raising the profile of Gfinity’s own LAN tournaments …

PwC US has released a report assessing the overall esports industry from a number of different angles with a focus on awareness, viewership and opportunities for companies looking to move into the space. There have been various assessments of the industry’s growing value, and this one states that there’ll be a 43% leap from 2015 to a total revenue of $463m (£321.7m) …

Twitch and FACEIT have teamed up to launch a new CS:GO league titled the Esports Championship Series (ECS) with a prize pool of $3.5m (£2.4m). It was revealed last week, via statistics from Newzoo, that esports are responsible for over 21 percent of viewership on streaming site Twitch and with more money being poured into current esports and more titles being developed for competitive gaming …

FansUnite is a sports prediction platform based out of Boulder, Colorado. Having relaunched earlier this year we spoke to company CEO Darius Eghdami about how important the users were in the reformation of the platform and in deciding which new features to bring in. Eghdami also discussed the importance of social integration, verification via Pinnacle Sports, esports markets and how transparency is at the …

The UK government has given its backing to the eGames, an international esports event which’ll take place during the Olympics in Rio this summer. Announced by the International eGames Committee (IEGC) earlier this week four countries have already confirmed their involvement; the UK, hosts Brazil, the USA and Canada. In true Olympic style there’ll be no cash rewards for the contestants, …

The latest data released by Newzoo shows that 21.3% of all hours watched on Twitch from July to December 2015 was esports content. This equals 475.5 million hours of esports content watched across all esports franchises, which is an average of over 79 million hours per month.  It’s repeatedly noted how Twitch has hugely benefitted the growth of the esports scene in the West, though it …

Isaiah ‘TriForce’ Johnson is a true esports enthusiast and former pro gamer based between his home of Jamaica and New York. He heads up an organisation called Empire Arcadia which runs teams across various esports including FIFA, Hearthstone, classic fighting games and more. We chatted to TriForce about the FIFA Interactive World Cup, the birth of ‘esports’ and its scene …

Esports organisation ESL has opened a glittering new UK studio in the city of Leicester.  It is believed that ESL spent in the region of £800,000 on the facility called Studio 1 which features one of the largest LED video walls in the country at 10m by 3m. The studio also includes a production room with space for up to 30 …

The latest esports focused report by Newzoo states that brands will spend a considerable $325m (£225.9m) across the industry in 2016. This means that the industry as a whole will receive over 70% of total revenue from brands and sponsors this year. This is a sizable increase of 49% growth on last year’s figures which goes some way in showing why …