Esports tournament platform Start.gg has announced its transition back to an independent company. Start.gg is a widely regarded tournament platform that has been prominently utilised within the fighting games community...
Esports Movers and Shakers is Esports Insider's monthly compilation of the biggest personnel moves in the esports industry. January 2024 was unfortunatly dominated by layoffs. Riot Games, Microsoft Gaming, Twitch,...
Software company Microsoft has laid off 1,900 employees spread across recently-acquired Activision Blizzard and the company's gaming workforce. The layoffs were announced via an internal memo sent by Microsoft Gaming...
Video game company Activision Blizzard will start 2024 without a CEO following Bobby Kotick's departure on December 29th, 2023. The former boss of the company stayed on board until the...
After several years of inflating the esports bubble with high-profile investments and ever-increasingly large sums of money, 2023 saw reality set in with investments in the field slightly reduced. Still,...
Last month was one of the biggest periods for esports investments in the last two years. Not only did Microsoft and Activision Blizzard's near two-year merger finally get completed, but...
