eSports

"Fortnite" developer Epic Games is suing both Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google after both mobile app platforms removed the company's popular battle royale title from their stores over direct payment issues. What Happened: Neither platform is...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Despite the uncertainty playing out in the financial world, Canadian ETF provider Evolve has garnered a good deal of investor attention...

Make all the nerd jokes you want. The Roundhill BITKRAFT Esports & Digital Entertainment ETF (NYSE: NERD) is on fire and there could be more to come for the upstart video game exchange-traded fund. What To Know: As of Monday, NERD had doubled off its March lows. Following a 1.59% gain on...

Estimates indicate that by the end of 2021, 2.7 billion people will be regular players of video games. Stated another way, in the near future, gamers will make up more than one-third of humanity. More than one-third of humanity. When it comes to ripeness for blockchain technology, gamers are almost...

Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ: IMMR) is a small-cap stock most investors have never heard of. With over 3,500 patents and a presence in more than 3 billion devices, chances are investors have experienced the company’s leading haptic technology. The company is in the spotlight in 2020 as it...

A draft amendment filed Wednesday to the House Appropriations Committee by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would ban the U.S. military from “[maintaining] a presence on Twitch.com or any video game, e-sports, or live-streaming platform.” What Happened: The...

Former FaZe Clan president Greg Selkoe created a new gaming and esports organization XSET to fill a void in the gaming marketplace, particularly the lack of diversity in gaming and esports. While FaZe Clan is one of the most popular gaming organizations, it's been surrounded by a mixture of...

Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" is the first title in the franchised Call of Duty League (CDL). The inaugural season started off as planned with scheduled home series events, but the coronavirus slammed the league into an online-only format. The CDL...

When "League of Legends" player William "Mateos" Hartmen was benched from the starting roster of the 100 Thieves LCS team, he took to social media to share his opinions about the situation. In a series of deleted tweets, he directed his frustrations toward the team's...

Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) "Call of Duty" has become a worldwide success, but things have been a little shakier on the esports side of the title. The franchised Call of Duty League fell beneath concern when the title became exclusively streamed through Google's (NASDAQ:...