eSports

The Overwatch League has lost its commissioner. Nate Nanzer, the OWL's first-ever commissioner who led the eSports organisation from the ground up, has left Blizzard. He left Blizzard to join Epic Games where he will head up the developer's eSports and compe…

The US esports industry seems to be in a bubble, with viewership stats that sources say are rosy-eyed at best, and inflated, unverified, or misleading at worst (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Kotaku)

6. This is an interesting claim: As the Democratic data analyst David Shor has noted, you can take a cluster of nine Democratic positions that each poll over 50 percent individually, and find that only 18 percent of Americans agree with all of them. And a si…

It's not certain just how Nanzer will shape Fortnite esports, although it's likely to be significant when he was the one who got Overwatch League off the ground. He pitched the idea to Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan back in 2015, well before the game even arrived…

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In this July 28, 2018, file photo, fans watch the competition between the Philadelphia Fusion and the London Spitfire during the Overwatch League Grand Finals, at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Overwatch League Commissioner Nate Nanzer i…

The Epicenter Major for Dota 2 will be a major event on the road to The International, but one player says he wont be there unless Valve addresses a string of remarks made by a world champion. Alexei Solo Berezin, a player on Virtus Pro, spoke out about comme…

Dean DeBlois, director and executive producer of DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” and PUBG Corporation CEO CH Kim are the first keynote speakers announced for the 2019 VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy, in October. Related Ri…

Along with point-of-view perspectives for all ten players, you can watch up to four streams at once including the main feed, though Riot isn't supporting multiview on mobile for now. You'll have access to an advanced timeline, which details kills, tower taked…

This week, esports tournament organizer DreamHack announced a new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eventthe DreamHack Showdown, which is set to be held in Valencia, Spain in early July. Its got a massive $100,000 prize pool, and will pit eight womens CS:GO te…