Stage 4 is upon us, and the groups have been decided. The 2021 Call of Duty League season has breezed past. Already approaching Stage 4, the groups have finally been decided and we can look forward to more CDL action. Group A Atlanta FaZe OpTic Chicago LA Thieves Minnesota ROKKR Paris Legion Seattle...
Sacramento Kings-affiliated NBA 2K League team Kings Guard Gaming has renewed its partnership with gaming peripherals company IOGEAR. Financial terms of the renewed partnership were not disclosed. As part of the deal, IOGEAR will provide Kings Guard Gaming team with its Kaliber Gaming peripherals, including...
In this piece — which is part one of ESI’s ‘Esports ‘n’ Beer’ series — we explore the fated partnership between North American org Evil Geniuses and renowned brewery Elysian Brewing, both headquartered in Seattle, Washington. That Pacific Northwest (PNW) gem, Seattle, has long been both a...
Who is the first team to advance to the MSI 2021 Finals? After two weeks of competition at MSI 2021, only four teams remained as contenders for the trophy. The LPL's Royal Never Give Up ("RNG") and The PCS's PSG.Talon ("PSG") faced off on Summoner's Rift...
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,...