Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is available on all major podcast platforms and is also available in written form...
North American esports organisation Evil Geniuses has announced the launch of The Creator Collective, a project featuring a dedicated group of streamers and content creators. The initiative will be led by Taylor Heitzig-Rhodes, formerly of Queens Gaming Collective, who has been named Evil Geniuses’s Director of...
Game publisher Riot Games has announced significant changes to its League of Legends Northern European Regional League (ERL), the NLC, for 2022. Amongst the most notable of these sees Freaks 4U Gaming replacing DreamHack as the league’s operator, as well as the implementation of a new...
MrSavage and Benjyfishy encounter a mind-blowing glitch during a high-stakes duo tournament. Glitches and bugs in Fortnite Battle Royale are certainly nothing new. The competitive scene particularly manages to find the most outrageous ones in the heat of battle or in a position to win a...
Time for another change for the Northern Europe region, as DreamHack/ESL relinquishes management role. It feels like only yesterday that DreamHack/ESL took over the running of the ERL. At the time, they took over the running of the UK event; later merging it into the larger...
North American NFT startup ARterra Labs has raised an undisclosed amount during a seed fundraising campaign ahead of the launch of ARterra Platform. The seed round was led by the investment company Woodstock Fund, with participation from Youbi Capital, LD Capital, 42 Fund and Baikal Blockchain...
Esports bookmaker Pinnacle has sponsored CS:GO events Home Sweet Home and Malta Vibes Ultimate Knockout. According to the release, the two events will look to increase the visibility of Pinnacle’s brand within the CS:GO scene. Image credit: Pinnacle, GRID RELATED: GRID Esports on why esports data does...
Digital bank Next has named Black Dragons CEO, Nicolle ‘Cherrygumms’ Merhy as its latest brand ambassador. Merhy joins the likes of Bruno ‘Nobru’ Góes and Gabriel ‘FalleN’ Toledo as ambassadors of the digital bank. Credit: Bank Next RELATED: Fluxo Esports announces partnership with digital bank Next Paulo Aguiar,...
One of the first states to adopt esports as a varsity sport, Georgia has embraced the industry. Students from Georgia State University have competed in the Collegiate Esports Championships, and over 50 teams are competing at the high school level across the state. Atlanta has enthusiastically...
Many series are still to come in Generation 8. While we play through our first non-Dynamax format in competitive Pokémon, the future of competition has been revealed! COO of the Pokémon Company, Takato Utsunomiya, stated: “As for the ranked battles that so many of you continue to...