Electronic Arts announced Tuesday that the total prize pool for the Apex Legends Global Series Championship is $2.58M USD. EA contributed an initial $1M to the prize pool, with the rest coming from sales of limited edition in-game skins. EA did not disclose precisely how...
Free Fire's OB28 update is what players need to look out for. Garena Free Fire has collaborated with numerous companies and celebrities in the past, and just after the announcement of a partnership with McLaren, they have announced another collaboration, this time with Capcom. With it,...
The Esports Observer has learned that the player transfer agreement of Tyson “TenZ” Ngo from Cloud9 to Sentinels was signed in April that allowed an option for Sentinels to purchase Ngo’s contract, which has now been completed. Sources have told TEO that the transaction was...
Spend your gold in the final Wild Week of Fortnite Chapter 2 - Season 6. The final week of Fortnite Chapter 2 - Season 6 is underway. Most players are looking forward to another fresh start on Tuesday, June 8, where aliens will presumably invade the...
Brazilian retailer Casas Bahia announced that Fluxo‘s CEO and co-founder Bruno ‘Nobru’ Góes has joined the company as Head Creative of Games. Pictured: Bruno ‘Nobru’ Góes and ‘CB,’ digital mascot of Casas Bahia. Credit: Casas Bahia RELATED: Fluxo Esports joins Booyah! as exclusive streaming partner According to a release, Góes will...
This piece first appeared in Edition 8 of The Esports Journal The Eurovision Song Contest and esports both enjoy, or perhaps resent, a level of relative obscurity. Many have heard of it but perhaps cannot be bothered to understand such a spectacle. Even within Europe, Eurovision...
ESTNN recaps some of the top storylines from the Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS) Season 6 Finals. On the heels of possibly competitive Fortnite's best tournament to date, the dust continues to settle. The storylines built throughout the season came to a head in the Season 6...
NYSE-listed information technology company HP announced that it has completed its acquisition of gaming peripherals brand HyperX. The company paid HyperX’s previous parent company Kingston Technology an acquisition compensation of $425M USD. Kingston will retain its gaming market-focused computer memory and storage products. HP, which has built its own gaming...
The Free Fire World Series (FFWS) 2021, organized by Garena in Singapore, peaked at 5.4M concurrent viewers worldwide during the first round of its finals on May 30, breaking the all-time record of peak viewers for an esports event (excluding Chinese platforms). Data from Esports...
During May 2021, The Esports Observer tracked eight investments raised by esports-relevant companies. Disclosed investments amounted to 36.6M$ USD, bringing the total sum of disclosed investments in 2021 to $3B. Financial terms were not disclosed for all deals highlighted in this article. Fnatic Raises Funds to Expand into the Asia-Pacific...