Esports

Highlights of Garry Cook, Gfinity executive chairman, in conversation at the Sports Decision Makers Summit in London.

Commercial entities will spend a total of $1.4bn (€1.2

Lagardère Sports and Entertainment has furthered its presence in the esports market by being appointed as the exclusive agency to market commercial rights to the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ (PUBG) 2019…

Major League Baseball announced an esports tournament across Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai on their Weibo account

After being one of the first companies to receive 5G licences for commercial use in China last month, China Mobile announced their first foray into esports competitions in partnership with TJ Sports, Blizzard…

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China released an analysis report on the current state of esports employment, and revealed that 86 per cent of those working…

Fortnite player and Twitch streamer Turner 'Tfue' Tenney has become the first professional gamer to file a lawsuit against his own organisation over an unfavourable contract. Callum McCarthy asks if signifies the emergence of player power in esports.

The Chinese domestic esports audience is tipped to hit 350 million, and revenues to reach $1.9bn, this year, according to a report by Tencent’s Penguin Intelligence.

Media group Dentsu is launching a football-themed mobile game, based on Japanese football-themed children’s cartoon Captain Tsubasa and featuring the likenesses of 10,000 real-world players including L…

Chinese city Hainan is setting up a special development fund worth over RMB1bn ($145m) to attract esports events and businesses. According to Sina

Immortals Gaming Club (IGC) has acquired fellow US esports organisation Infinite Esports & Entertainment, parent company of OpTic Gaming, in what it claims marks the industry’s first $100m (€88.7m)

A new esports organisation has been set up in New York that will operate a number of franchises and seek to bring more gaming events to the US city

The United States Tennis Association's successful bid to host the inaugural Fortnite World Cup finals at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, is part of a wider strategy to introduce the refurbished facility to a new and younger audience. Story by Bob Williams.

Ted Leonsis, the chairman and majority owner of Monumental Sports and Entertainment, says he believes that in 10 years' time an NBA 2K League player will be better compensated than LeBron James is today

Lance Mudd, founding member of the US eSports Federation, told today’s Sports Decision Makers Summit that valuations for esports stadia were unreasonably high.

The Overwatch League's inaugural Homestand Weekend was hit by a regional power outage early on Saturday, which delayed proceedings by an hour.