The Miami Heat became the second NBA franchise to integrate itself with an eSports franchise, announcing Tuesday a stake and partnership with Misfits, which fields teams in Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Super Smash Bros. and League of Legends, among others. The Heat will assist in a variety of business-related areas, including sponsorship activation, marketing, branding, […]
After an ESPN report surfaced last month that Milwaukee Bucks owner Wesley Edens would be buying into eSports, the news became official today, according to Darren Rovell. Edens confirmed to Rovell that his eSports team would compete in League of Legends under the name FlyQuest. As ESPN reported last week, the team will begin competing in the […]
Virtual reality company VirZOOM, a maker of VR games designed for its VR Bike Controller, is launching vSports competitions with the help of fitness equipment companies Fitbit and Life Fitness and also HTC. VirZOOM announced Thursday it held the first live vSports competition at a private CES event, enabling competitors in its multiplayer virtual reality […]
Compared to their European counterparts in the English Premier League, La Liga and other overseas organizations, U.S. professional sports leagues are still in the preliminary stages of their eSports involvement. The NHL, for example, is still on the outside looking in. One source recently told Elliotte Friedman, who is an NHL Insider at Sportsnet, that the league’s […]
Ukraine’s most decorated Premier League football club and reigning champion FC Dynamo Kyiv, announced its new eSports division last month with the first signing of a Ukrainian FIFA player, Vitaliy “Labotryas” Mukha. This makes Dynamo the first Ukrainian sports team tackling eSports as it follows in the footsteps of other European clubs including Manchester City, Paris […]
