This year, English Premier League teams have been venturing into burgeoning eSports industry by signing professional gamers to represent their respective teams during FIFA tournaments. Next in line looks to be teams in the NFL, where, according to Bloomberg, three have mentioned the possibility of signing top gamers from EA’s Madden NFL video game. eSports […]
Many analysts are predicting the eSports market to be worth between $460- $500 million by 2016. In 2014, eSports had 205 million global viewers and made $194 million in revenue! Combined with the fact that a number of professional football clubs such as Man City, Wolfsburg and West Ham are signing agreements with eSports players, […]
With the rise of interactive media, producers of entertainment content are recognizing the rapid transition to virtual reality among video games, particularly games that usually put the player in a first-person perspective. With controls as intuitive as using the human body, Virtuix, creators of the virtual reality motion Omni platform, have paired with Hero Entertainment to […]
As of 2014, what had 205 million global viewers and made $194 million in revenue? The answer: eSports. That’s right, eSports has been on a steep ascent the past decade and it’s expected to continue for years to come. With the vast audience and revenue possibilities, professional teams have begun to take part in the action. One […]
Recently at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual gaming conference in Los Angeles, EA finally unveiled their strategy on eSports and not surprisingly, will focus on Madden, FIFA, and Battlefield 1 (BF1) — and shockingly not Titanfall 2 — but that’s probably as the game was just revealed and focuses on BF1 as the lead First Person Shooter title. […]
