eSports

During the recent Benzinga Sports Betting, Gaming & Esports: A Deep Dive virtual event, Greg Selkoe, co-founder and CEO of XSET, discussed the future of his gaming lifestyle company and its involvement with Fortnite. Selkoe’s insights revealed how XSET is blending gaming with music,...

The Sports Betting, Gaming & Esports: A Deep Dive virtual event on May 16 at 11 am ET will bring together industry leaders to discuss these rapidly growing fields’ current and future state. This session will provide attendees a platform to hear from top professionals about the trends...

FaZe Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:FAZE) shares are trading higher Tuesday after the company announced a multi-million dollar esports sponsorship deal. The Details: Under the terms of the deal, Rollbit will become a global partner of FaZe Clan’s Counter-Strike team, which is currently the number one...

The legend of Yuga Labs continues to grow in the non-fungible token space. The game “Dookey Dash” was played more than 7.5 million times by people who owned Sewer Pass NFTs, all competing for the legendary Dookey Dash Key. Only one person won and they have now sold the winning prize....

By Juan Lomanto A Mexican company that teaches with illustrations, Pictoline, has released a trivia video game that surprised users with its art and Tinder-like mechanics. Pictoline was founded in 2015 by a couple of Mexican artists who dreamed of teaching with illustrations. Nowadays, after...

Investors are on the hunt for undervalued, underfollowed and emerging stocks to spot opportunities. Retail traders have countless methods at their disposal to uncover new information. For some, this may be overwhelming. Benzinga’s Stock Whisper Index uses a combination of proprietary data and...

By Migue Medina After several months of analysis and investigations, it seems that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering filing an antitrust complaint against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI). Politico reported that the intervention of the...

By Migue Porter Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Sony (NYSE: SONY)’s PlayStation and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are gaining momentum to join the smartphone revolution. Is the mobile format the future of gaming? Portability is one of the most resonant features in recent years in the video game industry....

By Juan Ignacio Boscato What started as a community of "Call of Duty" players, became a company listed on the Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) 12 years later. On May 30, 2010, the first video of the FaZe Snipping channel was posted on YouTube. It depicted the skills and trick shots of three players...

By Flor Orsetti On November 15, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s Xbox published its first Transparency Report for the January to June period of the current year, detailing a series of actions it has taken in order to make the Xbox gaming community and playing environment a safer, more positive...

By Juan Ignacio Boscato Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok is, without a doubt, the biggest star of the "League of Legends" world (developed by Tencent (OTC: TCEHY)'s Riot Games) and he is considered to be the best in history. In Korea, he is called the Immortal Demon King; he was a...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA), the company that owns "FIFA," "Battlefield" and "Need For Speed," announced that 73% of its revenues come from “videogames as a service,” according to GamesIndustry. These titles stay active over time thanks to content updates...

By Enrique D. Fernández The most important ceremony of the mainstream videogame world is getting ready to award the best game of 2022. The ninth edition of The Game Awards announced the names of the games that will headline its categories. Geoff Keighley, producer and host of the event,...

By Enrique D. Fernández Mobile games are gaining more and more ground, but competition is increasingly risky and the consequences of the confrontation translate into worrying numbers. In recent years, the video game industry has become one of the most solid and profitable sectors in the...

By Juan Lomanto The new game of the Sony Santa Monica saga is selling at unprecedented levels in the United Kingdom, one of the world's leading markets. Only a few days ago, the long-awaited "God of War Ragnarok" finally arrived. It is the direct sequel to the title that reinvented...