Editors Picks

For a game where flying rocket-powered battle cars slam oversized low-gravity footballs into virtual nets, Rocket League is surprisingly skillful. Like any skill-based competitive pursuit, setting is largely irrelevant — winning requires...

Sitting near the feet of the chalky white cliffs so famous of the British South Coast lies East Sussex College, in Lewes. Last year, the college announced the addition of esports...

Just like every month, February saw esports companies continue to build commercial portfolios through a variety of new partnerships, ranging from non-endemic deals to event-specific agreements.  To keep everybody up to date,...

Ask any marketing professional working in esports and they’ll boast about the industry’s valuable young, tech-savvy, Gen Z audience. It’s a defining narrative in the esports industry and a largely unchallenged...

Chances are, you’ll know at least one major sports team that also — unbenounced to you —  fields an esports team. There’s enormous choice in the field; from NBA teams having...

Each month, ESI compiles the period’s most significant esports movers and shakers. February's round-up features personnel changes from the likes of Newzoo, TSM, Evil Geniuses and Riot Games, among others. Here are...

Esports has settled into its mainstream media headline beat. A spectacular amount of zeros included in tournament prize pools, investments and acquisitions announcements. But behind the clinking of crystal, finance departments...

“Journalism can never be silent — that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.” As American journalist and diplomat Henry Grunwald said, the nature of journalism is to point out injustices...

Through a most cunning experiment, on February 2nd, 100 Thieves weaved its 2021 LCS esports victory story into a display of the business’s innovation. In the LA organisation’s signature parasocial content...

Each month, ESI compiles the period’s most significant esports movers and shakers. January's round-up features personnel changes from the likes of Tencent, BIG, Evil Geniuses and BLAST, among others.  Here are the...