FC Barcelona announced on Tuesday a partnership with Konami and eFootball.Pro to field a team in Pro Evolution Soccer 2018. KONAMI is the creator of PES, which competes annually against FIFA for the soccer/football player base. eFootball.Pro is an esports company founded by Barca defender Gerard Pique. FC Barcelona is continuing the trend of traditional […]
Esports viewership numbers are staggering. Some phrases have been repeated ad nauseam. “League of Legends has more viewers than (insert sport here).” While the validity of that statistic is up for debate, the fact that tons of people are watching esports is not. Viewership is just one part of transforming esports into the multi-billion dollar […]
Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant, New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and the St. Louis Cardinals are among the participants in a $38 million capital raise for esports investment fund and management company Vision Esports, it was announced Thursday. The New York Yankees had announced in October an investment partnership with Vision Esports. […]
With the global esports business pushing into the billions of revenue in the coming years, a fan base in the hundreds of millions and live events packing out global stadiums, the mammoth rise of the world’s fastest growing sport in competitive online gaming shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. With more than […]
Collegiate esports are growing rapidly, especially on the West Coast. Last month, eleven Pac-12 schools got together to form the Pacific Alliance of Collegiate Gamers (PACG). While not sponsored by the conference officially, every Pac-12 school besides the University of Washington is represented in the PACG. 11 student driven orgs from campuses across the @pac12 conference […]
