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Capcom has detailed its 2015 Pro Tour fighting game circuit schedule, with the eSports organization offering up a prize pool of $500,000 this season. A post on the Capcom Unity blog details how the purse will be spread across 16 Ultra Street Fighter IV Premiere events at locations in Asia, …
Read More »D!ngIt challenges Twitch superiority with weekly tournaments
Game streaming newcomer D!ngIt.TV has announced a weekly rota of tournaments for five eSports titles, in a bid to establish themselves as serious competition for Twitch viewer share. The microtournaments, held every day of the week from the end of February, will offer up to $8500 worth of payouts per …
Read More »Call of Duty EU finals come to London as team closes doors
Activision are pitting the top 28 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare teams in Europe against each other at the end of this month in London for their share of a $10,000 prize pool, and a trip to the $1m world finals – though one team’s future is uncertain. The teams, …
Read More »Pokémon World Championship boasts $2m prize pool
The Pokémon Company has announced that its 2015 Pokémon World Championships will offer $2m in prizes. Organizers have detailed locations and dates for the US Pokémon Winter Regional Championship tournaments. The US regional tourneys take place later this month at the following locations: St. Louis, MO: February 14-15 – St. …
Read More »UPDATED: League of Legends tournament restricts LGBT players
A Filipino tournament for female League of Legends players has come under fire after issuing new rules restricting the number of LGBT players allowed per team. The organisers, Garena eSports – a subsidiary of the country’s internet platform provider and exclusive distributor of LoL in South-East Asia – made light …
Read More »Stephen Ellis: eSports union ‘may be necessary’
Scottish eSports player Stephen ‘Snoopeh’ Ellis has said that he envisages a time where a union for professional video game players may become a necessity. Ellis, who has played League of Legends professionally for four years, has admitted in a Reddit AMA that he has now retired and sees his …
Read More »Hearthstone hits 75m users with expansion scheduled for April, report claims
Blizzard will release the next expansion for Hearthstone in April, according to a new report. Yahoo Finance editor Tae Kim claims to have word from an Activision Blizzard employee that the card game has now passed 75m players worldwide and that its numbers “are off the charts”. As recently as …
Read More »Riot also working on dedicated European League of Legends network
League of Legends is to receive a dedicated European network, mirroring that planned for the US. Developer Riot revealed its American network plans earlier this month and has now confirmed that an EU project is also underway. The recent launch of an Amsterdam datacentre and changes to its Frankfurt datacentre …
Read More »Understanding eSports: A Brief History of eSports
For the first entry in our continuing coverage of the eSports market, MCV looks back at the growth of competitive gaming and sees where it could be headed in years to come Multiplayer gaming has come on leaps and bounds since the days of head-to-head face-offs on arcade cabinets. Events …
Read More »Dailymotion enters game streaming market, targets eSports
Video sharing site Dailymotion has become the latest company to branch out into live video game streaming. Dailymotion Games, in the words of its creators, “offers the gaming and electronic sports community a custom-built environment for viewing, sharing, uploading and streaming personal gaming and gaming competitions”. Streamers will get access …
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