Point Proven
Vainglory ignored casual players "to a fault" in pursuit of eSport legitimacy, says Super Evil Megacorp
But now it's redressing the balance
More Than Fun
What's the potential for eSports in India?
And does mobile have a part to play?
Twitter Esports
Twitter partners with ESL and DreamHack to bring eSports streaming to its social network
Who needs Twitch?
Forcing The Issue
A MOBA for the masses: the making of Star Wars: Force Arena
Behind the scenes with Netmarble's Hong Seo Park
Esports In 2017
Revenues from eSports expected to hit $696 million in 2017
Newzoo digs into the growth of the market
Esports In India
Nazara to invest $20 million into new eSports league for India
Committed to growing the league for at least the next five years
Serious Talent
Vainglory bolsters professional team roster with five established eSports organisations
Fnatic, Echo Fox, NRG, Rogue, and Immortals enter the Fold
Critical Figures
Soft-launched mobile shooter Critical Ops surpasses 13 million downloads and 500,000 DAUs
Eyeing up a Spring 2017 release worldwide
Competitive Gaming
You should not develop eSports with the intention of making money
... or at least not at first, says Arne Peters of ESL Gaming, addressing Casual Connect Berlin
Critical Hit?
Critical Force on building Critical Ops as a mobile eSport
Tim Spaninks and Juri Juskevits on the potential of competitive mobile gaming
Hi-rez Interview
Hi-Rez talks its biggest mobile game yet in SMITE Rivals, eSports and building a community
We chat to the game's Lead Designer Brian Grayson
Grab The Prize
eSports is not just for the big boys, says Gumbler
VP and Head of Pro Gaming Simon Sunden explains at PG Connects London
Mobile Esports
"Don't make a mobile eSports title" says Twitch
Ryan Chaply instead tells developers to make a good game
Stream Sports
Azubu acquires rival eSports streaming service Hitbox and plans to launch mobile-focused platform
Hitbox couldn't be happier
Smite Royale
Hi-Rez Studios reveals Clash Royale-challenger SMITE Rivals
Beta signups now open
China Esports
China's mobile eSports industry expected to generate $2.6 billion in revenue in 2016
Three times more than 2015
Watch This
VR eSports streaming platform Boom.tv raises $3.5 million in seed funding
Bringing VR eSports streaming to all headsets
Drifting Along
VR eSports developer Drifter Entertainment closes $2.25 million seed funding round
Funding led by Signia Venture Partners
Final Clash
Clash Royale's inaugral North American championship finishes with the Crown Duel on December 17th
$15,000 and a trip to Helsinki up for grabs
Five Million Heroes
Asia mobile eSports tournament Hero World Championship 2 draws in five million viewers
2,000 people there in person
Vainglory Franchises
Super Evil Megacorp establishes Vainglory Team Franchise Program to grow the eSport
Another big step for the fledgling eSport
Critical Reforge
Finnish devs Critical Force and Reforged Studios partner to rise up in the world of mobile eSports
Sharing resources, knowledge, workload, and so on
Casual Esports
Amazon Appstore gets in on eSports with first ever tournament for casual mobile games
Winner stands to win grand prize of $30,000
Blowing Up
Mobile shooter Critical Ops hits 10 million downloads before leaving soft launch
Running tournaments in North America and Europe
Drifting Along
Ex-HoloLens and Oculus staff form eSports VR game developer Drifter Entertainment
Currently hiring
Bloody Millenials
Male millenials are watching as much eSports as they are basketball or hockey
Newzoo says its eating into their traditional sports viewing
Top Of The World
Mobile eSport Vainglory goes to Hollywood for first ever World Championship on December 2nd
First mobile eSports world championship ever
Ilkka Paananen Interview
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen talks company culture, expansion plans and eSports
Digging deep after the BAFTA Games Lecture
China Esports Deal
Huyai Brothers invests $288 million in major Chinese eSports developer Hero Entertainment
Good deal for both sides
Mobile Esports
How to make your mobile game a watchable eSport
Get in on the huge competitive gaming scene
Critical Funding
Critical Force raises $4.5 million to push FPS eSports title Critical Ops out to Asia market
Partnering with NHN Entertainment to do so
Pgc Helsinki Speaker Spotlight
Taking baby steps: Critical Force on the current climate of mobile eSports
CEO Veli-Pekka Piirainen tells us what's what
4-minute Esports
London-based "coffee-break eSports" developer Koyoki seeks Multiplayer Map Designer
Craft the battlefields in the upcoming Forces of Freedom
Jump Higher
Doodle Jump leaps onto eSports bandwagon
Old dog, new tricks
No Guts No Vainglory
Amazon Appstore becomes major sponsor of Vainglory US & EU Summer Season
Season structure also altered to be more eSports friendly
State Of Esports
It's not about mobile game eSports. It's about is this a good mobile game for eSports?
The story so far
Esports Rising
Team Secret continues to dominate Vainglory as it wins third EU Championship Final in a row
Snow Tsunami once again the runner-up
Another Step
Mobcrush's iOS app goes live while Windows client goes alpha
Watch here
Free Time
Why self-driving cars will grow the games market more than VR
Torulf Jernström on freeing up game time
Expanding The Niche
Supercell hiring a competitive gaming expert to establish Clash Royale as first mobile eSport
Write your own playbook
Looking Ahead
4 key trends shaping the future of F2P mobile games
Leonard Frankel has seen the future
Competition =/= Sport
Updated: To be an eSport, you have to design a game for spectators as well as players, says Mobcrush
Koh Kim discusses the rise of the spectator
Vainglory Spring Season
Vainglory Spring Season Championship events to be held in Hollywood and Berlin in June
June 3-5 in Hollywood, June 10-12 in Berlin
Esports Awareness
Over 1 billion people will be aware of eSports by the end of 2016, predicts Newzoo
Actual viewing audience currently around 292 million people
Play To Win
First China Mobile eSports Games competition kicks off with Vainglory, CrossFire and King of Glory
It's already happening
Back From Split
5 important things we learned at Reboot Develop 2016
Most significant lessons learned from Croatian game dev conference
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
Attack Of The Clones?
Will Clash Royale's success herald a wave of synchronous PVP imitators?
Mobile Mavens on clones and eSports
A Who's Who
Armada Interactive raises $3 million to give core mobile gaming a hard push
Remedy, BioWare, Crytek vets reboot
Time To Compete
Smite dev Hi-Rez on three months of learning about the nascent mobile eSports market
COO Todd Harris is playing a waiting game