NEW YORK — For the New York Mets, the path to the team’s involvement in esports began in some ways with a bond formed decades ago. “Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision, is middle school friends with Jeff Wilpon,” Wes Engram, the Mets’ vice president of corporate partnership & sales, noted at the NSF Summer […]
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 […]
