GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Guild Esports has announced that it has signed a subscription agreement to raise up to £1 million. The investment was from an international esports, content creation, and media brand.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Esports has taken the gaming world by storm in recent times. With lucrative tournaments and millions of fans globally, eSports gaming has become a flourishing sector that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down soon. According to Statista market forecasts, the eSports user base is expected to reach over 856 million by 2028.

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AWS Games

APRIL 8, 2024

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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iXie gaming

MAY 23, 2023

One of the prime examples to showcase this culture is eSports. Born out of the inherently competitive nature of video games, eSports today is competitive video gaming that rivals any other form of sports. The origins of eSports can be traced back to the 1980s. The origins of eSports can be traced back to the 1980s.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 26, 2023

Guild Esports, in partnership with Sky UK, has unveiled the No Room for Abuse initiative. With monetary support from Sky, it will be featured on social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, and the Twitch streaming platform. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2023

Gaud-Hammer Gaming Group, in partnership with Sports Illustrated, has launched Esports Illustrated. Esports Illustrated's staff includes president Nafeeza Hassan, editor-in-chief Kali Scales, and publishing manager Zack Patraw. The publication will be dedicated to covering major events, games, and people within the competitive space.

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Game Development News

APRIL 13, 2023

Level Tap will open at the Liverpool ONE shopping and leisure complex later this year

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

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. Through initiatives like mobile game jams and interschool esports, she aims to foster girls’ interest in STEAM fields.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

billion in 2025E Esports & Live-Streaming face ongoing monetization challenges. Esports revenue is expected to decline by 3% to $173 million in 2024 and another -8% in 2025E, highlighting the difficulties in effectively monetizing competitive gaming audiences. And Web-based gaming is reinvigorated, growing +5.8%

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2024

” Oluwatosin Ogunyebi On this day, nearly ten media houses were present, representing a healthy mix of local and international press. Jide Martin In the evening, we headed to The Carven, where one of Africa’s Esports giants, Gamr , hosted a lively dinner for delegates. Think about equity sharing, not just the money on the table.”

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Game Development News

MAY 25, 2023

Virtual Learning UK has announced it will partner with Belong Gaming Arenas to deliver a new esports study programme

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Game Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

They attract rampant financial speculation, leading to esports-like bubbles that must inevitably deflate. Like esports, it is the focus of unwise speculation and hype. Already, they are more agile at hopping between – and colonizing – other media like television and music, and most especially social media.

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

The now immensely successful eSports game cost up to $250 million to create and market. The Growth of eSports In this age of professional video game competitions, developers fire from all cylinders to create award-winning titles. Every major game publisher wants to have an eSports game. There’s a good explanation.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

And since its release over a decade ago, CS: GO has reigned supreme over all other multiplayer first-person shooter games in the eSports scene. As a result, several games in the eSports scene witnessed a surge, and so did CS: GO. You can also venture into these fields to start making money from the eSports disciple today.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

eSports I think there’s a few of them. That’s eSports. I’ve watched how they’ve grown up around all of media and their connections with brands and game brands. Games as Social Media And one of the ways I look at games that… Games have become a vertical market for social media platforms. So eSports is a big deal. #3.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 25, 2023

This occurs naturally in movies and other media due to the nature of cameras. 144 FPS (eSport quality): competitive eSport games such as LoL, DotA, and CS:GO. Image credits: Reddit There’s also the issue that anything moving fast will seem snappy at low framerates unless there’s some motion blur.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

Erik Londré: I’ve spent a lot of my life organizing events, and making people have fun, for companies outside games, and more recently, for esports organizations. It seems like it was something that was perhaps hotter a year ago than it is now, or is that an overly negative media narrative? It was super-cool and I loved it.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

So every new form of media gets a lot of pushback from the previous forms. It’s only been around for a few decades, while other forms of media like film and television have had much longer to establish themselves. ” And when TV came out, people were talking about how it would destroy the minds of the youth.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are some interesting stats and graphs about these events: The total number of tournaments: According to the Esports Charts, both Apex and Fortnite had many official and unofficial tournaments. Source of information: Esports Chart’s Apex Legends and Fortnite page. Some of these events are official. Fortnite is ahead.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today it has expanded to other media such as Riot’s League of Legends Netflix animation and Music business, or through different TV and online formats such as the LoL Esports tournaments. This is not new, but in the past focused on capitalizing on intellectual property through licensing rights for TV and movies.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Rocket Brands has announced plans to grow with the public launch of new online gaming community platforms Skape.gg and Cre8tor.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Tandem Events is now open to speaker submissions for Develop:Brighton 2024

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Game Development News

JUNE 12, 2023

Dan Ahern, QA lead at Radical Forge talks about social mobility in the games industry - MCV/DEVELOP

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

(That said, on the available data there are no signs of such content exhaustion, but the game hasn’t been running for long yet…) Because of the high degree of randomness, it is unlikely to foster a truly competitive or eSports scene. To achieve it would perhaps have to present a poker-like format where the focus is on the betting of Cubes.

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Game Development News

MAY 15, 2023

Game Republic el presidente Jamie Sefton grants an audience to Richie Shoemaker as Yorkshire’s industry network celebrates 20 years of interdependence

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Game Development News

JUNE 6, 2023

The Independent Game Developers' Association has called for the UK Government to expand the list of jobs on the Shortage Occupation List - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Development News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, shares insights that 40 of the top 100 mobile games have launched their Web Shop using Xsolla's solution

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox This year's Evolution Championship Series (Evo) hosted 9,182 registered players. Participants from 71 countries participated in the fighting game event from August 4 to August 6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read more

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Game Development News

JUNE 12, 2023

Tickets are now on sale for EGX 2023, and there's a discount on prices until later this month - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Development News

MARCH 17, 2023

The ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) has acquired Vindex

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Game Development News

MARCH 16, 2023

The UK Government has announced that the Video Games Tax Relief system will be replaced with a Video Games Expenditure Credit system as part of the 2023 Spring Budget

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Riot combined a full-blown media blitz with a Twitch integration that awarded beta keys to people viewing Runeterra streams to secure approximately a zillion eyeballs on their new game for a few days. Now, the window for the announcement preview beta has closed, and Riot will be back on November 14th to showcase Runeterra again.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Not to mention that MOBAs are very streamable, so in addition to all the free installs, the game will also grow with support from influencers - and perhaps even esports. The RPIs (rev per install) for the Arena of Valor outside China are quite low, despite slowly increasing over time as the download volume dwindles down.

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Game Development News

JULY 11, 2023

Harry Lang, VP of Marketing at Kwalee on why games are bigger than a new religion - MCV/DEVELOP

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

With AWS, the #1 cloud service in the world, and Twitch, the #1 video game streaming platform, Amazon’s product strategy is naturally centered around 1) network heavy MMOs and 2) social first, streaming first eSports games. Lost Ark ’s social media presence is mostly on YouTube, Twitter, and the game’s official site forum.

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