After paying a reported $90 million for the rights to stream the first two seasons of the Overwatch League, a new professional esports league that’s mirroring conventional sports with city-based franchises, Twitch announced Week 1 viewership numbers Wednesday and said it’s happy with the results. Twitch’s $90 million bid for the rights marked the biggest […]
Tech giants Intel and HP announced Thursday a major financial and marketing investment that will span multiple years in Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League, a new esports league aiming to mirror the structure of traditional sports by placing teams in large cities. The scale of these investments, which make HP the official device and display provider […]
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and New York Mets co-owner and COO Jeff Wilpon are creating a new Boston-NYC rivalry as they are among the traditional sports leaders to be announced Wednesday as new team owners in the Overwatch League. Overwatch is a multiplayer online first-person shooter video game, and developer Activision Blizzard has […]
The most ambitious eSports project yet is coming sometime in 2017. Blizzard Entertainment on Friday announced its plans at BlizzCon 2016 for the inaugural Overwatch League beginning next year, the first eSports league created at the outset which will have an inherent focus on driving revenue across ticketing, merchandise, sponsorships and media. Sports team owners […]
