Riot Games announces host cities for 2021 LoL World Championships
Games publisher Riot Games has announced that five Chinese cities will host the 2021 League of Legends World Championship.
The announcement named Shanghai, Qingdao, Wuhan, and Chengdu as stops in the multi-city...
KITKAT CHUNKY partners with Malaysian esports competition University e-League
Nestle-owned chocolate brand KITKAT CHUNKY has announced a partnership with Malaysian esports competition the University e-League.
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As a result of the partnership,...
Hyperice partners with LPL for 2021 season
The League of Legends Pro League (LPL), Riot Games's tier-one esports competition in China, has named performance technology company Hyperice as its official recovery technology partner for 2021.
As a part of...
Dignitas partners with QNTMPAY, Riot Games unveils VALORANT Mobile | ESI Digest #45
Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest...
Top Indian and SEA esports business developments in May 2021
India receives some big news in the month of May as Krafton announces the return of PUBG Mobile in the form of Battlegrounds Mobile India. The region saw an influx of...
VALORANT Mobile announced by Riot Games
League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced that VALORANT, the company's first-person shooter, will be coming to mobile devices in the near future.
VALORANT Mobile has been revealed exactly one year after...
VSPN announces ‘multi-million’ funding round
Chinese esports solutions provider Versus Programming Network (VSPN) has announced a 'multi-million' Series B2 funding round from an investment fund managed by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (MSPEA).
According to the release,...
Key esports sponsorships and partnerships, May 2021
As usual there were a ton of esports sponsorships and partnerships announced last month. OverActive Media and Red Bull; NRG Esports and CMG.ASIA; KitKat and most of the top regional LoL...
Esports investment report, May 2021: Fnatic, Enthusiast, Beastcoast
Esports investment in May was led by Fnatic raising $17m. There were various mergers and acquisitions, including Enthusiast Gaming's acquisition of both Icy Veins and Tabwire, as well as two Letters...
Bacon Time secures Foodpanda partnership
Southeast Asian esports team Bacon Time has announced a partnership with online food and grocery delivery platform Foodpanda.
According to the release, sports marketing agency SPORTFIVE collaborated with Bacon Time’s parent company...