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Overwatch Passes 30 Million Users, Is A Good Game

Overwatch, the popular online first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard Entertainment, surpassed 30 million registered players as of last week. The game was originally released in May of 2016 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles as well as on PC, and has since steadily increased its player base over the last 11 or so months. 

Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the most popular video games in history, including World of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Hearthstone. Overwatch, the company’s latest release, started with 7 million players just in its first week of release, and has gained an average of around 2.2 million players each month, hitting 15 million players last August and 25 million players by late January 2017. 

Speaking from personal experience, Blizzard Entertainment has done a great job of ensuring that the community for Overwatch is accessible, engaging, fun, and responsive to user feedback (i.e. if players think a certain character or ability is too strong or a certain game mode can be tweaked, Blizzard will usually either put out a statement to the community regarding the issue or change it and update the game). 

Though there are a lot of playable characters (each with their own set of abilities, strengths, and weaknesses), the community is welcoming of new players (as evident from the game’s growing player base) and makes sure everyone has a fun time with the game. The subreddit on Reddit for Overwatch has over 840,000 subscribers, and is one of the biggest video game based communities on the site. 

Like other games (i.e. Pokemon Go) Overwatch has seasonal events every so often to provide new content to the game and to keep the players engaged and interested. The current event is titled “Uprising”, and past events have included a Halloween event, a Winter holiday event, and a Chinese New Year event. 

Having a great community and with a good developer such as Blizzard behind it, I believe Overwatch will continue to grow in size. 

Read more about Overwatch here: http://www.polygon.com/2017/4/28/15478464/overwatch-player-base-30-million 

And here: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/28/15475604/overwatch-blizzard-30-million-players-milestone-growth-rate

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Instagram & Snapchat: (Self)-Attention Merchants

I believe the future for Instagram and Snapchat from a business perspective is one that gives more power to the user. As mentioned by Tim Wu, Instagram created a photo centered social network which opened up a vast market centered around what he calls, “the self as its own subject of worship” (315). 

Coming from the age of the newspaper then the radio then the TV then the computer (and the Internet) and now the smartphone, with such powerhouses as YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat, with each successive age the user has been given more power to create their own (user-generated) content, to be a consumer of content while simultaneously being a producer of content. 

Looking to the future, I believe Instagram, Snapchat, and social media in general are trending towards a time where the user will increasingly live in the moment, in the now. What began with single permanent posts was soon accompanied by stories (i.e. the Snap story or the equivalent Instagram story) which lasted only 24 hours before disappearing. The next iteration seems to be live video, where users live stream themselves to whoever is watching in that moment. In a similar fashion to how TV accomplished its period of Peak Attention, of carving out new time slots for people to be reached by media (i.e. prime time, day time soaps), Instagram and Snapchat have managed to capture a great percentage of the population, but instead of specific time slots these new attention merchants are attempting to capture any and all time, where the user is always connected at risk of missing out on a 24-hour story or a live stream. 

In the words of James Franco, “it’s what everyone wants: attention. Attention is power” (313. As has been the case with every era in the Attention Merchants, where there is attention, there are advertisements. In the future of increasingly instantaneous content to be consumed, ads will find a way to be seen. Whether it’s inserting themselves seamlessly in between Snap stories or providing 15-second ad breaks in a live stream, advertisements will become more prominent in this new age of attention.

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Alien: Covenant The VR Video Game?

Continuing from last week’s theme of the movie-video game tie-in (last week with a Guardians of the Galaxy drama-adventure video game from Telltale Games), on April 26th director Ridley Scott and studio Fox will be releasing a VR experience for their latest movie Alien: Covenant called “In Utero.” 

The VR experience will be released on the Oculus Rift VR platform, and will place the user in the perspective of a baby alien as it is born, a.k.a. as it rips and tears its way into the world from inside a human body…nice. This is not the first time Ridley Scott and Fox studios have been involved with interactive movie tie-in’s: They released a similar VR experience on the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR for the movie The Martian, which was essentially a glorified 360 video of Mars’ surface from the perspective of stranded astronaut Mark Watney a.k.a Matt Damon. 

The issue with these VR movie tie-in’s is that they struggle to truly stand on their own and provide immersive, long-lasting experiences for the users. The Martian VR tie-in was priced at $20 and didn’t really provide a deep enough experience to warrant such a price. 

As such, the same worries can be had for this next VR tie-in, as it is unclear how long its shelf life will be or how much replayability it will provide to the Oculus users. “In Utero” is not a full-fledged video game like the one produced for Guardians of the Galaxy by Telltale Games, and if it receives a price tag similar to that of The Martian’s VR then it may not be the most desirable of VR experiences once it becomes available to the public. 

Watch a trailer for “In Utero” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBTGCNx0144 

Read more about Alien: Covenant’s VR tie-in here: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/24/alien-covenant-vr-experience-launches-april-26/

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Guardians of the Galaxy: The Video Game

The first episode of what will be a five video game series based on the Guardians of the Galaxy releases this week. The series is titled “Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series,” developed by American video game developer Telltale Games. The first episode, titled “Tangled Up in Blue,” focuses on a storyline involving the Guardians that is separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

Telltale Games is known for making very immersive, interactive drama-adventure games which put players in difficult situations and force them to make tough decisions throughout the story, with each choice carrying its own set of consequences that affect how the rest of the game will play out. Given its long history of taking an existing franchise and putting its Telltale-drama-adventure spin on it (previously with such properties as The Walking Dead, Batman, and even Minecraft), this Guardians of the Galaxy game series should be another success. 

It is interesting to see an accompanying video game released with Guardians 2 considering that nobody knew who the Guardians even were before the first movie, and it goes to show just how popular this Marvel franchise has become. Video games based off blockbuster Hollywood movies are very hit-or-miss, and I feel they can do more bad than good when it comes how it impacts the film counterpart (i.e. regardless of if the video game is good people will go watch the movie, but if the video game is bad then it just looks bad for the movie). However, with such a guaranteed incoming summer blockbuster success as Guardians 2, I don’t think Disney really cares how well the video game will do. 

Read more about the Guardians video game here: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/17/telltale-games-guardians-of-the-galaxy-launch-trailer/

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PewDiePie Losing YouTube Ad Money, Announces Show on Twitch

Popular YouTuber PewDiePie, owner of one of the biggest channels on YouTube with 54.6 million subscribers and known for his funny videos which often include those of him playing various video games, recently uploaded a video where he claimed one third of all his videos had become demonetized.

The demonetizing of videos seems to be a common and recent occurrence among many YouTube channels as the site recently reworked its policies regarding videos that quality to be monetized. This is after prominent companies in Europe and North America started pulling their YouTube ads after they deemed the videos their ads played before to be inappropriate and/or containing hateful content and messaging.

In a public service announcement style video, PewDiePie jokingly explained that from now on his videos would be family friendly, satirically saying “I’m going to have to be family friendly from now on so I don’t go homeless.”

In a video posted last week, PewDiePie also announced that he will be hosting a weekly show on Twitch, the popular live video game streaming site (owned by Amazon). Although the timing of the weekly Twitch show announcement and his more recent PSA video may be more than coincidental, PewDiePie states he decided to start the Twitch deal “before anything.”

Twitch is different from YouTube in that a majority of a channel’s revenue can come from direct donations from viewers (viewers can “subscribe” once per month for $5, or make direct donations of any amount), removing the pressure of having to conform one’s quality to the desires of their advertisers.

In any event, YouTube cannot be too pleased with the moving of one of their biggest creators to a competitor’s site.

Read more about PewDiePie’s new show on Twitch here: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/11/pewdiepie-weekly-twitch-show/

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RIP Mad Catz :(

Sad news as Mad Catz, the company known for its gaming and hardware peripheral products, filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy last week.

Founded in 1989, Mad Catz had always focused on offering unique third party gaming accessories to consumers, the likes of which included controllers, gaming mice, memory cards, connection cables, gaming headphones, and other game specific equipment such as dancepads for dance & rhythm-based games or “fightpads” for fighting games such as Street Fighter.

From a personal standpoint, whenever I found myself at a retail store such as GameStop or Walmart, Mad Catz was always the company that would be selling the wackiest looking console controllers and other accessories (see images for reference).

In 2010, the company released official licensed controllers and for the game Rock Band 3, including a keyboard controller (keyboard as in musical instrument, not computer keyboard), a microphone controller, a drum kit, and two guitar controllers (guitar controller pictured below). In 2015 Mad Catz hoped to ride the wave of successes by deciding to co-publish Rock Band 4, which was a major failure and starting point of their declining business.

Amidst today’s age of gaming, with ever-increasing technology in terms of software and hardware capabilities (including that of gaming peripherals), and with virtual reality gaming being the current craze, perhaps Mad Catz simply couldn’t keep up with the times. Perhaps going all in on co-publishing Rock Band 4, a music game in an era where music and dance games are not all too dominant, was not the wisest of business decisions. In the end they will be remembered for their unique gaming accessories and a relic of video gaming of old.

Read more about Mad Catz’s bankruptcy here: http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/31/15137812/mad-catz-shut-down-bankruptcy

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Amazon’s “Prime Ban”???

Nintendo’s new Switch console has been very popular since its release at the beginning of this month. The Switch has been so popular that Nintendo is actually planning to double their production of the console (from 8 million to 16 million new units) within the coming year. The Switch’s popularity has also meant that many retail outlets have sold out their stock for the console, leaving many eager Nintendo fans in a quandary as they have no choice but to wait for the stores to restock.

Early this afternoon (Friday, March 24th) Amazon had a small supply of Nintendo Switches back in stock, though with a minor catch: Amazon made the Switch available to be added to your cart only if you were an Amazon Prime subscriber. 

Granted, the stock of Switches on Amazon has already sold out again, meaning their exclusivity to Prime members didn’t have any negative impact on sales, but there is no telling how many non-Amazon Prime gamers were blocked from being able to buy Nintendo’s newest console which is priced at $300. Amazon Prime memberships cost $100 a year, a price that is certainly high enough to warrant foregoing the free two-day shipping and other exclusive benefits.

Interestingly, this is not the first instance where Amazon has placed the Prime ban on products in high demand. In the past such items as the Blu-Ray edition of the film Birdman and must anticipated video games such as Grand Theft Auto: 5, Far Cry Primal, and Battlefield Hardline have gotten the “Prime members” only treatment.

Though it may seem like a given to have an Amazon Prime subscription at this point, there still may be plenty of unlucky consumers who are adversely affected by this Prime ban.  

To read more about the Prime ban go here: http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/24/15051338/amazon-nintendo-switch-prime-exclusive-buy

To read more about Nintendo upping its Switch production go here: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956344/nintendo-switch-production-numbers-2017-wsj

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VR Games: Soon to be Mainstream?

Though it has been said that Virtual Reality (VR) will one day be the future of gaming, it seems the age of mainstream VR titles is still on the horizon.

It’s certainly true that VR has come a long way within the industry, what with the development of capable VR technology and the fact that industry giants – i.e. the likes of Facebook, Sony, and Microsoft – have acquired this technology or created their own, but this gaming sector has yet to become fully relevant in the mainstream.

According to a recent survey of PlayStation 4 owners conducted by Google, current VR games can be described as “quick experiences based on famous games, simple games: arcade, point ‘n’ click, puzzle,” and “games inspired by classical board games.” When contrasting these notions of VR games with what gamers actually want from VR, which according to the survey includes “fully interactive narrative experiences, totally original experiences designed for VR,” and “full games like those I already play on PlayStation 4,” it’s clear VR is not quite serving the desires of the average gamer.  

However, having said this, the full potential for VR games may be realized not too far off in the distance. According to some, that potential may become a reality within the next few generations of VR games beyond what is available now. As Chris Early of Ubisoft (a major video game publisher) said, “the third or fourth game beyond, that’s AAA* and you can play it for 10 to 50 hours…What I feel super strongly about is there will be AAA VR games…People will play them for hours and hours and hours.”

*AAA (Triple-A) refers to a major game released by a major publisher, equivalent to a blockbuster in cinema (i.e. any Marvel/Disney movie)

To read more on the future of VR games, go here: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-03-14-there-will-be-aaa-vr-games-and-were-making-one-with-star-trek-bridge-crew

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Nintendo Switch: Off to a Good Start?

The highly anticipated Nintendo Switch, the newest console from the Japanese gaming company, launched last Friday, March 3rd.  

Early reports are indicating the Nintendo Switch is off to great start. According to Eric Bright, the senior director of merchandising at GameStop (the world’s largest video game retail chain) in an interview with Game Rant, “Stores across the country last night (the 3rd) were packed with customers who couldn’t wait to get their hands on the brand new Nintendo Switch. We even had customers lining up as early as yesterday morning so they could be one of the lucky ones to score one of the additional units for our walk-in customers. This is one of the strongest and most successful gaming console launches for GameStop in the last several years.”

Similar to GameStop, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart also offered the Switch to walk-in shoppers on launch day or through midnight release openings (i.e. opening their stores at 12:01am on Friday morning).

I respect the retailers’ decision to support the overwhelming demand for the Switch, and I admire the dedication of these walk-in shoppers, a.k.a. those who were willing to wait in long lines for multiple hours outside in the frigid cold weather (I saw this firsthand, about a line of 30-40 people outside a Best Buy at 8:30pm last Thursday, a full three and a half hours before the store would open at midnight), most likely because of the fact that preorders online for the Switch have sold out long ago.

With the overall failure of the Wii U, the console that followed the famous Wii, Nintendo is looking to get back on track and make its way back into the console market – a market currently dominated by Sony’s PS4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One – with their creative new Switch console. Time will tell how successful Nintendo’s newest endeavor will really be.

Read more about GameStop’s Nintendo Switch here: https://gamerant.com/nintendo-switch-gamestop-launch-comparison/

and here: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-has-huge-launch-at-gamestop-retail/1100-6448434/

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The Rise of NBC & CBS = The Rise of Google & Facebook

In my view there are two big ways in which the rise of NBC and CBS mirrors the rise of today’s giants in Google and Facebook: the first is how the companies changed the game when it came to advertising, and the second is how they sought/seek to control the time and space of their audience.

The same way NBC and CBS were able to “thread the needle” and successfully combine entertainment and advertising together, Google combined its search engine with advertising and Facebook combined its social network with advertising. For all three cases, the thing being combined with advertising – an age old industry on its own as the book has gone over i.e. since the days of selling Snake Oil – was relatively new in society: for NBC and CBS that thing was entertainment through radio and subsequently through television broadcasts, for Google it was an effective search engine, and for Facebook it was a popular social network.

In the words of author Tim Wu, all companies involved are “clearly and irresistibly in the business of selling the attention of enormous audiences to those who could pay for and use it” (P.92). Or, as Wu puts it more shortly, the companies are in the business of “selling eyeballs.”

The second way the rise of the four companies is similar is the way they have focused on controlling the time and space of their audience. With radio and shows such as Amos ‘n’ Andy NBC and CBS were for the first time able to enter the comfort and privacy of the American household. With television and shows such as Texaco Star Theater every week at 8 p.m., the two companies were able to create entire time slots in the day – i.e. the creation of Prime Time at night, or the creation of soap operas during the day – when the majority of the American population would tune into their content.

Google and Facebook have taken this even further, to the point where essentially nowhere is off limits for them to have access to you the audience. Whether it’s checking Facebook while still lying in bed in the morning, reading your emails on Gmail on the morning commute, Googling something with your friends at lunch, checking Instagram late at night while you study (be it in the library or in your room or wherever), the two companies effectively own the entire day and the audience’s entire world when it comes to viewing their content.

And just as NBC and CBS moved on from radio to television as society embraced the new technology, Google and Facebook have time and again acquired new companies or entered new segments – for example Google going from a search engine to creating Gmail to creating Google Maps to acquiring YouTube to acquiring the Android OS to creating Google Chrome, or Facebook going from on the web to mobile to acquiring Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR – to stay relevant in their audience’s minds. 

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Nintendo Switch: The Gaming Giant’s Latest Attempt to Become Relevant Again

There is much hype surrounding the newest gaming console from Nintendo, named the Nintendo Switch, that is due out on March 3rd. The main selling point of the Switch is its “Joy-Con” controllers, which are basically normal video game controllers that can be separated into two mini controllers, allowing for multiple people to play at the same time (see images below). 

^one player

^two players

It can be said that in recent times Nintendo has fallen slightly out of video gaming relevancy - at least when it comes to console gaming - with the relative failure in sales for the Wii U, the company’s current console and successor to the wildly popular Wii all the way back from 2006. In an age of video gaming dead set on virtual reality (VR) and HD, 4K, hyper-realistic graphics, Nintendo has stayed true to its more arcade-y style, for better or for worse. 

According to Yoshiaki Koizumi, one of the highest of the high-ups at Nintendo, in an interview with The Verge, the aim for the Switch is to bring players back to a core gaming experience, that of facilitating human interaction. Koizumi relates the Switch to a deck of cards, one of the original gaming systems, explaining how people played in the same physical space as one another. In his words, “When we were working on the early development of the Nintendo Switch, one concept that was very important to us was how do we get people together to have a good time.” 

Nintendo is certainly taking a sizable risk with its new quirky Switch console, and only time will tell if the risk will pay off. On the one hand, failure in sales for the Switch may mean the legendary gaming company falls further out of the spotlight for console gaming, yet if the console proves successful Nintendo could revitalize the classic experience of playing games in the company of others, something that is becoming increasingly less popular with time.

Read more about the Nintendo Switch here: http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/23/14700224/nintendo-switch-console-shinya-takahashi-yoshiaki-koizumi-interview

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Pokémon Go Gets Huge Update, Adds 80 New Pokémon

Towards the end of the day yesterday (Thursday, Feb. 16th), developer Niantic launched one of its biggest updates for Pokémon Go since the game’s release this past summer.

80 new Pokémon from Generation 2 of the franchise – those that can be found in Pokémon Gold and Silver as opposed to Pokémon Red and Blue of Generation 1 – have been added to the game and can now be caught in the wild (a.k.a they will appear as you walk around).

Besides the new Pokémon, some additional features have been added to the game as well. New mechanics have been added when in the catching screen (what Niantic is calling “new encounter gameplay”) along with two new types of berries (one that slows down Pokémon and one that increases the candy you get from each), new evolution items, and more customization options for your Trainer.

While the much-requested feature of trading Pokémon between players has not been mentioned, with this latest (and biggest) update Niantic has made a real case for those who have abandoned the game to come back and check it out once again. Although we may never see Pokémon Go rise to the unheard of popularity (read: global hysteria) that is achieved during those first few weeks in the summer of 2016, this is definitely a step in the right direction to bring back those who have since stopped playing the game and to further entertain the loyal few who have continued to play up until now.

To read more about the update to Pokémon Go its new features, you can go here:   http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/15/14619130/pokemon-go-new-pokemon-gen-two

Or here:   http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/15/14618238/pokemon-go-update-80-new-niantic-johto-gold-silver

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E3 2017 Open to the Public: Good or Bad?

It looks like E3 will be open to the public this year, with a limited amount of tickets going on sale this coming Monday.

E3, a.k.a. the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is an annual trade convention for the video game industry that takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in LA. It is one of the biggest events in video gaming, and one of the most important for industry folk and fans alike in terms of the latest announcements for games, products, technology, and anything else video game-related.

In past years the organizer for E3, the Entertainment Software Association, has limited those who can attend the convention to members of the media and to those who work within the industry. A lot of other events, i.e. Gamescom in Germany (the largest video game convention in terms of attendees) are open to the public.

This is why it was a big deal when the Entertainment Software Association announced that a limited number of tickets would go on sale to the public for this year’s E3.

While it may sound like great news for video game fans eager to attend E3, there may be some downsides to the change. For one, more people means longer lines and wait times for all the booths offering hands-on game demos and other cool stuff. For example, people at Germany’s Gamescom can wait multiple hours just to play 15 minutes of a closed game demo that will just become open to the public within a month or so. More people also means the convention center in general will become more crowded.

Most importantly, in today’s age of the Internet, one could make the argument that there’s no longer a point to attending these conventions as they will simply hear about everything that is worth knowing online.

However, for those who enjoy the physical experience of going to conventions, this new opportunity to attend E3 will surely be great news.

Read more about E3’s announcement here: http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14548376/e3-2017-open-ticket-sales-public-february-13

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Counter-Strike Tournament Breaks Viewership Records

Viewership data for the recent Major Tournament for the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released today (Friday) by ELEAGUE.

Background #1: A “Major” signifies a tournament that is larger and more important than the average event, usually consisting of larger prize pools, larger production, and larger crowds. They are equivalent to the Major tournaments in such sports as golf (i.e. The Masters, The Open) and tennis (a.k.a. Grand Slams, i.e. US Open, Wimbledon).

Background #2: ELEAGUE is a league for the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that was jointly created by Turner and WME-IMG. The league was created in May of 2016, and is broadcasted live on TV on TBS and online through Twitch.tv (a live streaming site for video games). This ELEAGUE Major was hosted and broadcasted out of Atlanta, where the headquarters for Turner are located.

Per data from ELEAGUE, the grand finals (the final round of the tournament between teams Astralis and Virtus.Pro) “had a total reach of 3.6 million, with 1.8 million of them being first-time ELEAGUE viewers.” The grand finals also set a record on Twitch.tv for the highest number of concurrent streams on a single channel, with around 1.3 million viewers. In total, the tournament garnered 2.4 billion minutes of consumption and more than 60 million video streams across TBS, Twitch.tv, YouTube (where it was also live streamed), and GOTV (a feature in the Counter-Strike game itself where you can spectate other matches i.e. the grand final) over its seven-day span.

The data from this Counter-Strike Major serves as a great follow-up to my first blog post about “The Increasing Influence of eSports.” While still nowhere near the viewership levels of established professional sports, the numbers from ELEAGUE suggest that eSports is making big waves within the sports industry.

A detailed infographic from ELEAGUE can be found here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3wzmlVXUAAcHTh.jpg:orig

An article on the numbers from the Counter-Strike Major can be found here: https://slingshotesports.com/2017/02/03/eleague-releases-major-statistics-grand-final-total-reach-3-6-million/

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The Increasing Influence of eSports

It’s becoming pretty evident that eSports (a.k.a. electronic sports: the term used for professional video gaming) are gaining increasing influence in the real world. Within the last month, there have been three instances where non-video game related companies have announced new partnerships with eSports teams.

On January 5th, Visa announced its sponsorship of European eSports team SK Gaming, signaling the credit card giant’s first venture into professional gaming. As Gary Twelvetree, Visa’s executive director of marketing said, “Pro gaming has changed the way we see sport in recent years, opening access to people the world over and creating a surge in its popularity.”

On January 11th, Lionsgate became an investor in the eSports team Immortals, as Peter Levin, Lionsgate’s President of Interactive Ventures and Games called themselves “an early mover in a market that has the potential to transform the face of sports entertainment.”

Most recently, on January 19th the luxury car brand Audi announced its new partnership with eSports team Astralis.

While companies such as Buffalo Wild Wings and Snickers have been established sponsors of eSports, the recent partnerships from well-known and respected brands such as Visa, Lionsgate, and Audi outside of the food & beverage sector serve as an acknowledgement of the surging popularity of professional gaming.

As the chairman of eSports team Immortals said of their deal with Lionsgate, “What we’re doing today in eSports is like the early days of building the NFL and NBA. It’s not the evolution of games – it’s the evolution of sports, technology and media.” 

Read more about the recent partnerships here:

http://www.thescoreesports.com/csgo/news/12515-sk-gaming-partners-with-visa

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-01-11-lionsgate-invests-in-esports-team-immortals

http://www.thescoreesports.com/csgo/news/12812-astralis-reveal-audi-partnership

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