Thursday March 23, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Stinging rain, bike valet stations and long lunch lines at Chipotle have made for a feisty atmosphere at the 2023 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, which is hosting tens of thousands of attendees. […]
Thursday March 16, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse impacted several major game developers, though esports organizations remained largely unscathed by the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The financial and venture capital news of the week – SVB folding in […]
Thursday March 9, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is getting a sequel more than 10 years after release of the current version of the game, according to a report from esports reporter Richard Lewis. CS:GO launched in 2012 […]
Thursday March 2, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Kroenke Sports and Entertainment-backed esports organization The Guard has laid off the majority of its staff, with only a skeleton crew remaining to support its competitive programs. The Guard was founded in 2021 as KSE, a […]
Thursday February 23, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox titles to Nintendo consoles, a move that could have repercussions for Microsoft’s ongoing bid to acquire Activision-Blizzard and bring games like Call of Duty to the Nintendo […]
Thursday February 16, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports brief. The English Premier League and Electronic Arts are nearing a $600 million deal that will see EA retain its status as the lead gaming partner for the Premier League, according to a report from Sky […]
Thursday February 9, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports brief. Recent layoffs at esports and lifestyle organization 100 Thieves are a symptom of larger problems within the company, according to a report from Digiday. 100 Thieves has undergone two rounds of layoffs since the middle […]
Thursday February 2, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports brief. FaZe Clan’s woes on the stock market are well-documented, and with the company’s stock hovering below $1 per share for more than a week, the esports and lifestyle organization is getting closer to being issued a deficiency notice […]
Thursday January 26, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports brief. The past week brought another round of layoff announcements across major tech and media brands. From Google’s cut of 12,000 employees to layoffs by Fandom that hit games and entertainment media giants like GameSpot, Giant Bomb, Metacritic and […]
Thursday January 19, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports brief. Adjustments to YouTube’s models for ad servicing and its YouTube Shorts platform could shake up the creator economy in esports and gaming in the coming months. YouTube plans to shift its monetization strategy for Shorts to let partners […]
