Topic > esports
Plays tv touts growth that’s better than Instagram and Snapchat after its first year of PC gaming recording
Esports makes up 21.3% of Twitch’s viewers
Faceit and Twitch launch esports league where teams are owners
Optic Gaming takes North American finals for Call of Duty World League
How Treyarch and MLG got Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s live-event viewer working in 3 weeks
Rocket League gets amateur, collegiate, and semi-pro esports competitions
Mortal Kombat X enters its third esports season with $500K prize pool
Heroes of the Storm adds a new character and an esports-friendly feature
Esports attracts $325M from brand marketers desperate for a young audience
Esports Hero raises $1M to get gamers competing for cash
How Super Smash Bros. Melee’s esports community keeps the fighter relevant 15 years after release
Killer Queen shows that esports can bring arcades back to life
Esports veterans talk about the risks of professional gaming
Ark: Survival Evolved targets esports with Survival of the Fittest spinoff
Forge raises $4.5M to make editing and sharing gameplay clips easy
Evolve wants to make it easier for you to join esports cash tournaments
Matcherino lets esports fans create their own grudge matches with crowdfunded prizes
ESL and Twitch extend their successful live esports partnership
Periscope competitor Stre.am expands with pivot to mobile esports
Rocket League enters the esports world with Twitch-backed championship series
Yahoo capitalizes on its well-regarded Yahoo Sports with new esports push
Valve chief Gabe Newell fires host of Dota 2 esports tournament: ‘James is an ass’
Halo World Championship’s $2.5M prize pool is the largest in esports shooter history
Twitch competitor DingIt rounds up 20M monthly viewers
Guest
What Twitch and esports can teach us about building successful media companies
RankR gives esports a single hub for news, rankings, and tournaments
Guest
The esports industry has a lot to learn from the daily fantasy sports mess
Feature
Super Bowl Showdown: Is esports or the NFL a better career choice?
New site mixes Texas Hold ’em with Hearthstone to make wizard poker an esport
DreamHack Bucharest will give away $100K to Counter-Strike: GO’s best esports players
Analysis
Hearthstone’s drastic changes will kill hundreds of cards — but might save its future
NBA 2K giving away $250,000 as part of an attempt to attract an esports crowd
Sorry, Cowherd: Heroes of the Storm returns to ESPN2 with $500K prize pool
Exclusive
Games investments took a big dip in 2015, but esports and VR are coming on strong
FaceIt esports community raises $15 million to go global
Esports market to grow 43% to $463M in 2016 and reach $1.1B by 2019
Skillz launches crossplatform tournament system for mobile esports
Esports viewership is up 100% in the U.S. over the past two years
