Twitch has made itself the de facto home of live esports events over the years. But other platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have been making exclusive deals with tournament organizers in recent months to cut out their own slice of the esports broadcasting pie. In a move to stay at the top of esports

“We believe in empowering the community.”   Nintendo’s sometimes-back-and-forth perspective on embracing and not embracing esports and its surrounding culture can effectively be explained by that sentiment, which Reggie Fils-Aimé, Nintendo’s president, shared with me at E3 last week.  Esports is about community, sure, but it’s often a lot more orchestrated than that word would

Doom VFR really shouldn’t be a thing, but virtual reality early adopters can be glad that it is. Here’s the issue: Doom is a very fast-moving first-person shooter, but first-person VR experiences tend to fall apart when the pace is too quick. Your brain goes haywire as it tries to reconcile your motionless body IRL

Pokémon Go Fest is coming to Chicago next month, but if you missed out on getting a ticket in the initial sale, you’re gonna have to shell out a couple hundred bucks to ticket scalpers.  Tickets for Niantic’s Pokémon Go Fest went on sale Monday morning, but the $20 tickets sold out in 15 minutes,

God of War‘s hyper-violent protagonist Kratos is a dad now. Actually, he’s a dad again if you count his family he was tricked into killing that set him on a path of murderous rage at the outset of the first game in the series. In the upcoming sequel to God of War III (annoyingly titled