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Activision Blizzard and Google have entered a multi-year partnership to “power new player experiences,” and part of the deal is for the Overwatch League and the newly launched Call of Duty League to be exclusively streamed on YouTube. YouTube will host Activision Blizzard’s official live broadcasts of its esports leagues,…

Home • Esports • PC Game News • You snooze you lose, Twitch. Activision Blizzard this week announced a multi-year deal with Google to stream future esports events solely through a plucky little website called YouTube. By nicking exclusive rights to broadcast big-hitters like the Overwatch and Call Of Duty…

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Source: Blizzard Entertainment In a press release, Activision Blizzard and Google announced a new partnership that will see Activision Blizzard stream exclusively through YouTube (except in China). This includes major broadcasts like the Overwatch League, Call of Duty League and Hearthstone Esports. This partnership will also see Google Cloud providing…

It was a heck of a week for game company transactions, illustrating the huge opportunities in gaming and growing investor interest as well as the fragility of game industry jobs. Scopely bought FoxNext Games Los Angeles and Cold Iron Studios from Disney. Und…

The Russian game market more than doubled in the past five years to more than $2 billion in 2019, according to Yandex.Checkout, a Russian payment service provider. Historically dominated by free-to-play PC games, Russia’s market is shifting more toward mobile games in the past year, Yandex.Checkout said. Market overview Above:…

Who needs commentators when the players look so good? The Overwatch League has teamed with legendary streetwear designer Jeff Staple to create an “authentic player kit” for each of the league’s 20 teams. It’s so fancy. The new kits, designed to bring the esports experience more in line with the…

Nike made its first big move into esports last year, when it signed a four-year deal to sponsor the League of Legends Pro League (LPL) competition in China. With its new partnership with T1, Nike now has a prominent role in esports in Korea as well.As you might expect, Nike…

In August 2019, Riot Games revealed a new feature they were workingon for League of Legends: Eternals. It introduces champion-specific quests to complete for a player, with unique cosmetics as a reward, and detailed stat-tracking for the champions you love mo…

Watching professional Overwatch matches can be chaotic. At times, team fights look less like coherent, role-driven skirmishes and more like cartoon characters punching and kicking inside screen-eclipsing dust clouds. Commentators play a crucial role, making s…