The Brazilian Counter-Strike Circuit (CBCS) announced on Thursday that it has secured a partnership with Valve granting that two of its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) splits that will allow teams to qualify for the Majors organized by the game publisher. Also, the tournaments held in...
Epic Games deployed a patch out of nowhere, addressing some weapon and drop rate issues. Fortnite Chapter 2 - Season 6 is well underway, and Epic Games is starting to issue some changes. Some weapons from the beginning of this season seemed to miss the mark....
Ole Gunnar Solskjær, the manager of Premier League football club Manchester United, and sports agent Jim Solbakken have signed an agreement to become owners of Norwegian esports company ULTI Agency. Photo credit: Cosmin Iftode / Shutterstock RELATED: Arsenal partners with EGL to manage PES esports team for...
Betway has expanded its established partnership with Immortals Gaming Club to now include the Brazilian women’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster which competes under the MIBR banner. The company has been a partner of the pro MIBR team for four years. IGC signed the women’s team...
Warsaw-based live streaming sponsorships platform inSTREAMLY has raised €1.1m (~£955,887) from its latest seed round. The investment, led by Supernode Global, is expected to go towards the platform’s expansion into new markets. Colopl Next and PKO TFI were also involved in the seed round. Photo credit:...
Czech esports supplement startup MADMONQ announced that it has raised a €500K EUR ($598K USD) seed financing round from investors, including poker player and esports professional Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Twitch streamer Lex Veldhuis; content creator Radek “sterakdary” Starý, Lukáš “lastgameblitz” Křítek, Vojta Roček, and AdRock Ventures. MADMONQ revealed that it intends to use the funding “to raise...
Chinese live-streaming platform Bilibili has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Overwatch League (OWL) owner Activision Blizzard, which includes the Chinese production and broadcasting rights to the league in China, further development of the commercial interests, as well as support to promote OWL in...
Online bookmaker Betway has expanded its existing deal with Brazilian esports organisation MIBR by joining forces with its female Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) team. The deal will see MIBR Female and Betway collaborate on a range of activations. Photo credit: MIBR / Betway Esports RELATED: Betway renews sponsorship deal with MIBR The partnership...
Singapore-based Southeast Asian gaming and esports organization RSG announced that it has secured a $1M USD investment from the Tembusu Partners managed esports private equity fund FrontSight Capital Fund. The investment into RSG is FrontSight’s first of up to 10 planned investments into Southeast Asian esports teams and companies of $1M to $2M each. The organization revealed...
Japanese esports organisation Rush Gaming has announced a sponsorship agreement with gaming headphones company ASTRO Gaming. Parented by Logitech, ASTRO Gaming has supported a number of events made by Rush Gaming in the past, including the ‘Rush Gaming Warzone Challenge’, and now has become an official partner...