Esports has become such big business that mobile platform Skillz is the country’s No. 1 private company for growth by one recent estimate and the Paris 2024 Olympics organizers are considering its inclusion as a medal event. Those are just a pair of sample headlines from this month, so it’s little wonder that Nielsen, the […]
For professional Dota 2 players, going head-to-head with a bot works as a warmup. The bots are considered “limited AI” and are beatable for the average player — even more so for professionals. The notion of every bot being an easy defeat changed last week with an OpenAI-developed bot defeating the best Dota 2 players […]
Growing up, playing video games was all about bragging rights. Come 2024, it’s realistic that video games and esports could be played with something much larger at stake: Olympic medals. That’s because Paris, host of the 2024 Olympics, is considering adding esports as an event. “We have to look at it because we can’t say, […]
FanAI, an audience management platform that is helping brands target sports fans beginning with the esports industry, announced this week the closing of a seed funding round supported by several sports technology venture capitalists and the founder of DraftKings, Jason Robins. The company also announced a partnership with DreamHack, one of the world’s largest esports […]
HyperX, a maker of memory chips and other hardware for the video game market, announced a partnership on Wednesday with University of Kentucky Wildcats All-American basketball player and top NBA draft prospect De’Aaron Fox. If that sounds strange to you — it’s not. Fox is an avid gamer who counts NBA 2K, Call of Duty, […]
