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Richard 'Faze Banks' Bengtson acquires 25.5% stake in Faze Media

GamesIndustry.biz

stake in content creator-focused entertainment company Faze Media. Bengtson initially was behind esports outfit Faze Clan, which he co-founded back in 2010. Bengtson initially was behind esports outfit Faze Clan, which he co-founded back in 2010. The company was acquired by GameSquare in October 2023 for $18.5

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HUDstats switches from OpenAI to Amazon Bedrock to advance esports storytelling using generative AI

AWS Games

In the past decade, esports has evolved into a billion-dollar industry, with dozens of leagues, thousands of athletes, teams, franchises, and rising fan culture. Moving from there to building a whole AI-driven data infrastructure and generative AI storytelling solution for the esports industry felt pretty natural.

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Supercell's Record Year: Crushing It, But At What Cost?

Deconstructor of Fun

billion (+77% YoY) EBITDA: 876 million (+78% YoY) Monthly Active Users: 300 million, the highest since 2014 This is a massive turnaround from 2023 when Supercell fell out of the top 10 mobile publishers. The team experimented with everything from esport to UGC and even went as far as removing gacha - only to put it back in.

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Bukola Akingbade of Kucheza Gaming on nurturing dreams and shaping industries

PreMortem.Games

So far she has facilitated the awards of esports athletes between the ages of 8 and 18 with rewards such as dedicated gaming laptops and Amazon vouchers. She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today. Now there are hundreds of millions.

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Checkmate: Discussing the Rise of Chess Games on Mobile

Game Refinery

Chess has also become something of an esports sensation, which started after grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura coached streamer xQc on chess over Twitch and eventually led to the creation of a dedicated group of prolific streamers setting up an amateur chess tournament called Pogchamps on Chess.com.

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She Got Game on cultivating a thriving environment for female game developers

PreMortem.Games

Whereas if 90% of the people in a bar were women, the idea is that the environment is more appealing than the actual content. This idea was at the heart of the discussion on the 2nd of December 2023 at the AGW panel titled: The Importance of an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Business Support for Female Game Developers.

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Gaming vs. Movie Industry Revenue: Striking Revenue Gap Revealed

Game Errors

Many believe that Gaming and Esports industry has taken a hard hit as the offices reopened after COVID-19, and the downfall of this industry has begun. Apart from this, it’s a social platform that will connect players from around the world and let them make friends across countries which is not possible in movies.

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