Top Twitch streamer CouRage jumps to YouTube
CouRage will be a familiar face to streaming and esports fans. He has more than 2.1 million Twitch followers and already had a sizable presence on YouTube with almost 1.9 million subscribers. Along with streaming his own gameplay, Dunlop's known for esports h…
bubmagNovember 4, 2019
Another Popular Streamer Leaves Twitch, This Time For YouTube
Popular content creator Jack CouRage Dunlop is leaving Twitch, he announced today. Unlike other recent Twitch departees, hes not going to Mixer. Instead, hes struck a deal with YouTube and will stream exclusively there. In a video announcing the change, CouR…
bubmagNovember 4, 2019
Twitch Hires Ex-Nascar Exec Lou Garate as Head of Sponsorships Sales
Twitch is looking to broaden its esports and live entertainment biz with the hire of longtime Nascar executive Lou Garate. Garate is joining the Amazon-owned streaming company as Twitch’s first global head of sponsorships sales. He will be based in Twitch’s …
bubmagNovember 4, 2019
How to Survive Next Year’s BlizzCon, and What to Preorder From This Year’s
BlizzCon 2019 has come and gone, and it was quite an event: the final (official) debut of Diablo IV, the first female champion of Hearthstones Grandmasters Global Finals, and a big Overwatch World Cup victory for Team USAtheir first as well. So much happene…
bubmagNovember 4, 2019
Elite-level video gaming requires new protocols in sports medicine
Across the U.S. the esports athlete is a rising class of competitor in the highest collegiate and professional arenas. According to researchers in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, the field of sports medicine needs to catch up in order to …
bubmagNovember 4, 2019
New York’s ERA invests in esports org Gen.G
Esports are the wild wild West right now. There's clearly a huge potential for the industry to become incredibly lucrative, but everything from the infrastructure of competition to the overall culture isn't quite ready for prime time. This introduces a huge …
bubmagNovember 4, 2019
My Hideous, Comfortable Gamer Chair Fills Me With Existential Dread
For nearly 20 years, Ive been sitting in the same piece of shit: a gray swivel chair that I got at Target as a teenager. It creaks if you look at it; its covered in enormous amounts of my hair. It does not do my body any favors. Very possibly…
bubmagNovember 1, 2019
MLG co-founders’ esports infrastructure startup Vindex raises $60M Series A, acquires Next Generation Esports, and debuts Esports Engine to help launch teams (Adam Fitch/Esports Insider)
MLG co-founders' esports infrastructure startup Vindex raises $60M Series A, acquires Next Generation Esports, and debuts Esports Engine to help launch teams (Adam Fitch/Esports Insider)
bubmagOctober 30, 2019
Hearthstone Esports Sponsor Mitsubishi Cut Ties Over Controversial Player Ban
Following a controversial decision to ban a professional Hearthstone player who expressed support for Hong Kong protests on an official stream, Blizzard lost at least one advertiser. Mitsubishi Motors Taiwan ended its sponsorship of Blizzard esports events ju…
bubmagOctober 30, 2019