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MSG’s Counter Logic Gaming Secures Content Deal With OMEN By HP

Counter Logic Gaming, the esports company in which Madison Square Garden owns a majority stake, has inked a hardware and content-creation partnership with OMEN by HP that will see esports players consulting on new gaming technologies and creating content for social media and Twitch. As part of the deal, OMEN will be the official PC […]

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How Team Liquid’s Alienware Facility Aims To Prevent Athlete Burnout

Team Liquid and Alienware recently partnered to create an 8,000 square foot esports training facility in Los Angeles. A custom media center and Tobii eye-tracking for training are just two of the things that set the facility apart from other North American esports facilities. The facility is filled with advanced tech to address the specific […]

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Why Fortnite Is Not An Esport Despite The Drake/Ninja Publicity

Last Wednesday, Drake joined popular Fortnite player Tyler “Ninja” Blevins on his Twitch stream to play a couple of Fortnite games. By the time the stream was over, Ninja had 50,000 new subscribers, had shattered the Twitch record for concurrent viewers on an individual stream with 635,000, and NFL player Juju Smith-Schuster and hip hop […]

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MLB Releases Reboot Of Old Nintendo Favorite R.B.I. Baseball

Major League Baseball released a modern update of the classic Nintendo game R.B.I Baseball, the 30-year-old cult favorite that was the first of its kind to include names, likenesses and abilities of real players. The original game — launched in Japan in 1986 and North America in 1988 — carried a license from the MLB […]

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