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Competitive video games could be as big as Major League Baseball
E-sports — which is to say, competitive, professional online video gaming — have exploded in popularity in recent years. In fact, experts have predicted that e-sports viewership is likely to surpass that of traditional sports leagues, including the NBA and MLB, by 2020. Indeed, esports revenue is likely to climb to more than $900 million this year as television...
Riot Games moves to establish League of Legends as a lasting esport
The owners of League of Legends professional esports teams met in Miami recently, where they contemplated the future of esports based on the popular League of Legends franchise from Riot Games. Each team invested a reported $10 million to get a franchise slot in the North American League Championship Series (NA LCS). In return, they...
12-year-old CEO is trying to solve a common frustration among gamers via crypto
George Weiksner was 11 years old when he sat down to discuss dividing up the equity of his new startup with his co-founder, who also happened to be his father. George initially asked for an 80% stake in their cryptocurrency-based gaming platform Pocketful of Quarters, a proposal his father, Michael, balked at. “I said, ‘Let’s do...
$4 Billion On Microtransactions Last Year
Microtransactions are big business at Activision Blizzard. The company said today in an earnings report that revenue from “in-game net bookings,” which include things like DLC sales, loot boxes, and in-app purchases on mobile games, reached $4 billion for 2017. During the fourth quarter alone, Activision Blizzard brought in over $1 billion for in-game net...
Booming business of esports sets sights on conquering mainstream audiences
The year since the first event in 2017 has been an extraordinary one for the esports industry. According to research by CB Insights, esports were projected to bring in between $500 million and $1.1 billion in revenue last year. The firm now counts more than 300 esports leagues in existence. And since 2012, privately held...
The Power of the Gamers
Gamers have a lot of control over how publishers use them. Here is one example of how a League decided to move from Twitch to Facebook and now there is a boycott of the leagues events…. provided by
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MOST WATCHED GAMES ON TWITCH  Every month, we will publish the top games on Twitch by total hours watched. The ranking can be filtered on both esports hours and total overall hours. Esports hours consists of content from professionally organized esports competitions and does not include individual (pro-player) streams. This content combined with consumer content makes up the total...
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US Game Industry 2017 Revenue Over $36 Billion
Apparently there are many different was to determine the revenue for the video game industry. The US game industry raked in $37 billion in 2017 according to a press release from the Entertainment Software Association. The Entertainment Software Association (or ESA) is an organization that represents the interests of US video game hardware and software producers....
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