Sentences with phrase «first esports»

VGU Gamer Gauntlet will be the first eSports cruise.

The company behind one of the most popular MOBA games released their first eSports mobile game.

Following the commencement of the first round of the H1Z1 Pro League, the first esports league of its kind, Daybreak Games announced that H1Z1, one of the original games in the Battle Royale genre, will be making its console debut on PlayStation 4.

Major League Gaming has released information about their plans to build the world's first eSports stadium on Zhuhia region, more specifically Hengqin Island, China.

I ran one of the UK's most successful Team Fortress clans, I was a presenter on one of the world's first esports TV shows, Quake Republic, I was the administrator for a couple of leagues, an IRCop on QuakeNet and a columnist on Barrysworld.

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Two NBA teams have bought esports teams, the first esports lounge opened this year, and the convergence between gambling and esports is growing.

The first esports series last year went down a storm, with the live finale in Abu Dhabi seeing the title decided with a brilliant last lap overtake.

This sounds pretty special — because it will take place at Yas Marina on the same weekend as the F1 finale in Abu Dhabi, with a three - race event to decide the first eSports champion.

«We are really excited to be part of the first eSports [decentralized app](dapp) on Ethereum, and believe that 1ST token trading will ensure the long term sustainability of the FirstBlood ecosystem,» commented Aurélien Menant, founder and CEO of Gatecoin.

«We are excited to be part of the first eSports [decentralised app](dapp) on Ethereum and believe the first token trading will ensure the long - term trading sustainability of the FirstBlood ecosystem... Dapps like FirstBlood will be the game - changers, encouraging more mainstream consumer engagement with Ethereum and more developers to create dapps on the platform.»

Not exact matches

This isn't the first time Yahoo has shown interest in eSports.

This is also the beginning of a new exclusive partnership with Sony, which means all Call of Duty eSports will be played on PlayStation 4 consoles for the first time.

To get going, Yahoo (YHOO) has already hired the first four members of its new eSports editorial team: Andrea Rene, Travis Gafford, Taylor Cocke, and Dylan Walker, all experienced video gaming reporters.

«We are taking a pragmatic approach to eSports so this is just one of the first steps, but down the road we can envision the opportunity for large - scale live spectator - filled events that not only highlight the game, but some of the NBA athletes that represent our brand alongside other pop and fashion icons,» Argent says.

And there were the 2017 newcomers, like Uptake Technologies, which brings predictive data analytics to infrastructure and heavy equipment; Trulioo, an internet - age identity verification service; and Skillz, the first Disruptor from the hyper - growing world of esports.

With virtual reality all the rage at CES this year, Virtuix is hosting the first - ever eSports tournament in VR.

OpenAI first ever to defeat world's best players in competitive eSports.

After seeing millions of dollars invested in fantasy eSports and eSports betting sites over the past few months, the first big eSports company acquisition has finally happened.

It's popular, as the first major esports game and practically the national sport of South Korea in the 2000s.

As just one example of eSports meteoric growth, IEM's first season topped out at around 500,000 video sessions.

The first official F1 esports series has its grand final in Abu Dhabi this weekend, and McLaren launched a competition to find a gamer who was good enough to become the F1 team's official simulator driver.

You can watch the replay of the first ever Serie A eSports match online here whilst Italian readers can attend the eSports festival where they can watch the stream at the Guido Reni District in Rome.

Nevertheless, it's a positive for F1, gaming and eSports, and we're excited to see how the first F1 eSports World Championship plays out!

The reality is that outside of CS: GO, first person shooters (FPS) have struggled to garner the same kind of esports viewership as League of Legends and Dota 2.

The NFL and Electronic Arts teamed up for the first full 32 - team esports football league based on the Madden NFL franchise.

Right now, the most popular esports are online battle arena games like Dota 2 and League of Legends, and first - person shooters like Halo 5: Guardians, Overwatch, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

It's fair to say the first ever Formula 1 esports series couldn't have ended on a much more exciting note.

Last month in Abu Dhabi though we saw the first ever Formula 1 Esports Series World Championship and let's be honest, it was much more exciting than the actual Grand Prix itself.

For that he'll need a teammate, and who that will be is getting decided in in the first ever «eRace of Champions», with four drivers - including F1 esports champion Brendon Leigh - going up against each other for the chance to compete in the event.

The first race was won by Brendon Leigh, with race two being won by Cem Bolukbasi, who recently joined Fernando Alonso's own esports team.

Fernando Alonso has become the first F1 driver to get involved with esports after launching his own team

That was one of many eye - opening statements made by commissioner Adam Silver on Wednesday, as the NBA held the draft for the inaugural season of its 2K League, the first of esports league of its kind for a professional sport.

The LG Dire Wolves will make esports history on September 23 when they will be the first Australian League of Legends team to compete in the League of

The first Project CARS was — and still is — a regular fixture in the racing esports world.

This weekend marks the kick off of the very first professional battle royale esports league with the H1Z1 Pro League Tournament in Las Vegas.

Several esports seasons have gotten underway over the first few months of 2018.

While many fighting game lovers spent a lot of the PlayStation Experience being excited about Marvel vs Capcom Infinite (and with good reason, obviously), my focus that weekend was more firmly on the Capcom Cup 2016 — the culmination of the first year of Street Fighter 5's attempt to go eSports.

UMV's Battle on the Strip premiered on October 16, 2016 as the first of its kind Pro-Am esports tournament series activation on the Las Vegas Strip, with the highly popular Dota 2 as its first featured title.

These tournaments will mark the first stop in Daybreak's Elite Series, H1Z1's global esports circuit, and is expected to be the largest esports event at DreamHack Atlanta in terms of both participants and prizing.

In collaboration with eSports platform Faceit, this new addition to the X games line - up is designed to drag virtual competition into the limelight a little, and is not the first time an eSport has featured on the roster: previous years have seen entries from everything from Halo to Call of Duty.

The first season of official competitive play culminated with the SMITE World Championship in January, where nearly 2.9 million cumulative daily unique viewers from around the globe watched eight teams battle for more than $ 2.6 million in prizes, the third highest prize pool ever for an eSports tournament at the time.

That, my friends, is what will need to be decided first if we ever want to see eSports become an Olympic sport.

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The world - first MotoGP ™ eSport Championship was comprised of six online qualifying challenges, which led up to the exciting final showdown at the Gran Final in Valencia, broadcasted in more than 190 countries worldwide.

Could we be seeing the first video game to become a genuine eSport?

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is the franchise's first entry in the competitive arcade scene and the three - on - three setup works really well in giving the game a proper esports appeal.

Wargaming.net has announced they will hold the first World of Tanks (PS4) eSports Tournament, just six months after the game launched on the PlayStation 4 console.

Top MMO News: April 2, 2016 details a new hero for Marvel Puzzle Quest, updates for Ghost in the Shell: First assault, and Twitch has a new eSports partner.

First, Hearthstone Esports leads Che Chou and Matt Wyble join me to talk about how they made the Hearthstone Championship Tour into an international event.