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High School Esports 2022 Fall Champions: ‘League of Legends’

The 2022 high school esports fall season has completed the championship matchups on the PlayVS platform, bringing an end to the 2022 season. Here are the champions and runners-up in each region for “League of Legends.”  Related: High School Esports 2022 Fall Champions: ‘Hearthstone’ High School Esports 2022 Fall Champions: ‘NBA 2k23’ High School Esports […]

Amateur ESports High School

High School Esports 2022 Fall Champions: ‘Rocket League’

The 2022 high school esports fall season has completed the championship matchups on the PlayVS platform, bringing an end to the 2022 season. Here are the champions and runners-up in each region for “Rocket League.”  Related: High School Esports 2022 Fall Champions: ‘Hearthstone’ High School Esports 2022 Fall Champions: ‘NBA 2k23’ High School Esports 2022 […]

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GodLike Esports signs exclusive partnership with Rooter

Esports and gaming streaming platform Rooter has announced a partnership with Indian esports organisation GodLike Esports. The partnership will see Rooter receive exclusive streaming rights to GodLike Esports’ teams and content creators. Rooter will also sponsor GodLike’s esports teams. The details of the deal were not disclosed by the two parties. Image credit: Rooter.gg / […]

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Enthusiast Gaming’s largest shareholder launches public campaign for leadership and board changes

Greywood Investments, the largest shareholder of Canadian gaming and esports company Enthusiast Gaming, has publicly targeted the organisation’s leadership, urging its CEO Adrian Montgomery to step down.  Greywood, which owns 9.3 percent of Enthusiast Gaming, created a website named ‘Upgrade EGLX’ to publish texts in which the shareholder expresses its discontent with the current Enthusiast […]

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EEG announces $38.6m impairment charge to esports assets

Esports betting and entertainment company Esports Entertainment Group (EEG) has announced that it will revise its current portfolio of assets following liquidity concerns. During EEG’s Q3 2022 fiscal year financial report, which ended 31st March 2022, the company announced a $38.6m (~£30.87m) impairment charge related to its esports assets Helix, ggCircuit and EGL. Image credit: […]

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Riot Games deepens partnership with Aim Lab developer Statespace, acquires minority stake in company

Game developer and esports company Riot Games has announced the broadening of its partnership with Statespace, the developer of aim training tool Aim Lab. As a part of the expansion, Riot Games will become a minority shareholder in Statespace. Aim Lab will also become the official training platform for Riot’s FPS title VALORANT. Image credit: […]

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Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investment Fund buys 5% stake in Nintendo

The Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has reportedly acquired a five percent stake in game developer and publisher Nintendo. The $500bn (~£403bn) fund said it purchased the stake for ‘investment purposes’, according to a filing to Japan’s Finance Ministry reported by Bloomberg. Nintendo’s headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. The PIF is Saudi Arabia’s sovereign […]