eSports News

SÃO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Team Liquid, one of the leading international esports organizations, today announces its new Rainbow Six Siege roster and an expanded partnership with Alienware that includes naming rights to the team. Beginning this season, Cavalry in Brazil will compete as Team Liquid Alienware, a signal of the sport's growing commercial maturity in the region. The 2026 roster brings together Diego "Kheyze" Zanello Sakaguti (Entry 1), Felipe "Felipox" De Lucia (IGL/Support 1), Feli...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capcom today announced that its official Street Fighter 6 world championship tournaments achieved a record-high of 20,000 attendees....

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splash Sports, the leader in skill-based social sports gaming, today announced more than $5 million in total guaranteed contest prizes across its 2026 college basketball tournament slate. The lineup features Nick Wright's $3 Million Survivor Madness World Championship - the largest guaranteed college basketball Survivor contest ever offered on a peer-to-peer platform - alongside the $1 Million VSiN High Stakes contest and KellyInVegas' $250,000 Survivor Madness. "We bui...

CHANTILLY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GOLFZON, the leading global golf platform company, today announced the formation of a new Global Business Division based in Virginia. The move marks a strategic inflection point and realignment of the company’s global growth axis to the U.S. indoor golf market, where demand, innovation, and commercial opportunity are rapidly converging. GOLFZON has appointed Sean Pyun to lead the new division, and he will serve concurrently as Head of the Global Business Divisio...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ), the leading mobile games platform bringing fair and fun competition to players worldwide, today announced the upcoming debut of Skillz Pro SDK, the next evolution of its SDK designed to increase flexibility, expand creative possibilities, and potentially unlock new monetization opportunities for game studios. Pro SDK will be formally unveiled during a live session at next week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Pro SDK builds on...

ALBANY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splash Sports (www.splashsports.com, also available on iOS and Android), one of the leading peer-to-peer fantasy sports and skill games platforms in the U.S., is now approved to offer QuickPicks, Splash’s version of DFS in New York State, in addition to its already-established Tiers, One and Done and Survivor paid fantasy contests. Following approval from the New York State Gaming Commission in 2024, Splash is the first new licensed fantasy sports operator in New...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xsolla, a leading global video game commerce company, announces its support of the State of the African Video Game Industry 2026, a comprehensive new report published by SpielFabrique that examines the structure, scale, and evolution of game development, publishing, and esports across Africa. Developed by SpielFabrique in collaboration with independent researcher PhD Prince Oguguo, the report provides an in-depth overview of Africa’s video game industry in 2025, fo...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced preliminary financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2025. Selected Operating Highlights and Metrics Net bookings1 for the quarter totaled $3.046 billion, up 38% year-over-year. Battlefield™ 6 was the best-selling shooter title of 2025, setting new franchise engagement records. EA SPORTS FC™ net bookings increased high single digits year-over-year in Q3, excluding the benefit of del...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allied Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGAE) (“Allied” or the “Company”) today announced the results of its Special Meeting of Stockholders held on January 30, 2026. At the Special Meeting, stockholders voted on a single proposal presented as a non-binding advisory vote regarding the Company’s shareholder rights plan. The proposal sought stockholder approval of the Board of Directors’ preliminary determination that Knighted Pastures LLC and Roy Choi, by form...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allied Gaming & Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: AGAE) (the “Company” or “Allied”) today provided an update to shareholders regarding a January 5, 2026 order issued by the United States District Court for the Central District of California in the Company’s litigation against Knighted Pastures, LLC and related parties. In its order, the Court granted Allied’s unopposed motion for leave to amend its complaint, permitting the Company to proceed with its amended pleadings,...