July 12, 2018
Overwatch League strikes a milestone deal with Disney and ESPN
If you’re sick of hearing about esports, you need to get over it. The space continues to grow, inching its way into the traditional media landscape. Today, in…
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July 10, 2018
Tilting Point expands its user acquisition fund to $132M in annual spending
Mobile games publisher and marketer Tilting Point is dramatically increasing its commitment to its user acquisition fund. The company announced a $12 million fund at the end of 2016,…
Read articleJuly 9, 2018
Overwatch ‘Pink Mercy’ sale raises $12M for breast cancer research
It can be hard sometimes to grok the scale of the gaming community, but the occasional charity event not only demonstrates the hugeness of the industry but also…
Read articleJuly 9, 2018
PlayVS CEO Delane Parnell to talk high school esports at Disrupt SF
The gaming world is evolving at a rapid clip. No longer is the idea of the lonely gamer a reality. Twitch and Discord have brought gamers together and…
Read articleJune 28, 2018
The International Olympic Committee is curious about esports
If there’s still any doubt that esports is coming into the mainstream, just look to the world’s biggest sporting event: The Olympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and…
Read articleJune 27, 2018
Snap is reportedly about to launch its own gaming platform
Snap is seeking to explore new ground as it tries to outrun Instagram’s efforts to copy its features. Its newest effort may be building out a bona fide…
Read articleJune 26, 2018
Oh, the things I would do to get this cardboard-style Nintendo Switch
Nintendo is building on its strange but wonderful cardboard Labo platform with some sweet Mario Kart integration and a truly fabulous limited edition Switch with a faux-cardboard finish.…
Read articleJune 25, 2018
OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ neural nets are defeating human opponents
Artificially intelligent systems taking on human competitors is a grand tradition of computer science; thankfully, we’re still in the cute stages that don’t feel quite like War Games…
Read articleJune 25, 2018
An Overwatch hacker in South Korea just got sentenced to a year in prison
A 28-year-old man in South Korea faces a year in prison for hacking Overwatch . The sentence, reported by South Korea’s SBS News and Dot Esports, handed the…
Read articleJune 25, 2018
Rumored full mouse and keyboard support for Xbox One could change the gaming landscape
Microsoft may be readying a new weapon that could shift the balance in the interminable console wars: the mouse. Wait, you say, didn’t they promise that years ago,…
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