Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate Tencent Holdings released its financial earnings report for the first quarter of 2021. The company generated total net revenues of ¥135.3B RMB ($21.03B USD) in Q1 2021, an increase of 25.2% from ¥108.1B ($16.8B) in the same period of 2020. The company reported...
Shopify will become a key sponsor of the ESL Pro Tour StarCraft II as part of a new partnership with ESL Gaming. The deal includes multiple content and prizing collaborations, as well as support of the tour itself including the global finals event at Intel...
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...
Whichever way you look at it, it’s incredible how quickly games went from subtle microtransactions to trading systems with items that can cost tens of thousands of dollars or more. Have you ever seen a CS:GO skin and been in shock because of how much...
With Classic TBC we see Blizzard again introduce the phased release of content. One major change is Blizzard altering the actual release of raid content to better fit the pace of Classic. In Classic, we saw Blizzard match the release patch release of Vanilla content with...
With the global release of TBC Classic expected on June 1st/2nd it’s just a matter of time zone. Global releases are fantastic. Honestly, we love them, and we're glad Blizzard is continuing to do them in Classic. There’s always one problem with a global release, however,...
Publicly listed esports company Gfinity has announced the appointment of Hugo Drayton to its Board as Non-executive Director. As a part of the arrangement, Drayton will also join the organiser’s remuneration and nominations committees. In return, he will be granted ordinary shares in the company. Credit: Gfinity RELATED:...
The last week of highlights from DPC China. The sixth week marks the end of DPC. The standings show which teams have done well and which teams are behind. Team Aster are on top of the table with PSG.LGD and Vici Gaming sharing the second spot....
ESTNN helps you gear up for the FNCS Semi-Finals! Competitive Fortnite players worldwide have entered the home stretch in this season’s Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS). Thousands of competitors battled through three weekly qualifiers with hopes of either securing a position in the Season 6 Finals or...
Joon "Erster" Jeong, flex DPS player for Shanghai Dragons, announces his retirement from competitive Overwatch. As the June Joust tournament is about to begin, Shanghai Dragons flex DPS Joon "Erster" Jeong announces his retirement from the Overwatch League. Erster made a video to explain his decision to...