Blizzard punishes gamer and rescinds prize money for supporting Hong Kong protests
A unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. has punished a player for expressing support for Hong Kong's protest movement, the latest example of a U.S. company attempting to rein in speech that might displease the Chinese Communist Party. Blizzard Entertainment said it was banning Ng Wai ...
High-speed 5G network seen as ready to give big boost to online gaming
At this year's Tokyo Game Show, the big draw was next-generation 5G networking — setting pulses racing with the prospect of a radically more immersive gaming experience. Offering data transmission speeds around 100 times faster than 4G, 5G is expected to enable more seamless imagery ...
U.S. teen wins $3 million at Fortnite World Cup esports tournament
American teenager Kyle Giersdorf won $3 million on Sunday after taking the top prize in an esports tournament in New York for the popular online video game Fortnite. Giersdorf, 16, from Pennsylvania, was one of at least 100 players competing for $30 million in total ...
Survey finds nearly 43% of people expect esports to grow in popularity in Japan
A Jiji Press survey showed Sunday that 42.8 percent of people think esports competitive video games will become popular as sports in Japan, up 7.4 percentage points from the previous survey carried out in April last year. Still, more than 40 percent opposed approving esports ...
France showed they were champions in virtual soccer as well as the real game on Sunday when they beat Argentina to win the inaugural FIFA eNations Cup and a $40,000 prize. Twenty countries from six confederations were entered in the esports event, with World Cup ...
The principal of a school in Ibaraki Prefecture who proposed establishing an extracurricular esports club has faced criticism from his teachers. In January, Takahiro Inose, principal of Oarai High School, proposed setting up a competitive gaming club. "After-school club activities are one of the catalysts for ...
The J. League announced Friday it will launch an esports tournament together with Konami Digital Entertainment Co. featuring the videogame maker's trademark soccer title. The 40 clubs in J .League's top two tiers will select three players each to compete in a mobile-app version of ...
League of Legends to host midseason event in Vietnam, Taiwan
"League of Legends" will host its Mid-Season Invitational in Vietnam and Taiwan, bringing one of the competitive video game's marquee live events to Southeast Asia for the first time. Riot Games announced the plans Monday. The play-in stage will be held in Hanoi from May ...
Tokyo is gearing up to host an esports tournament, read about what Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said about it in Japanese.
Tokyo to host two-day esports event in fiscal 2019, Gov. Yuriko Koike says
Tokyo will host an esports event during fiscal 2019 to promote the capital's video game and anime industries, Gov. Yuriko Koike said Sunday. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to set aside ¥50 million in the budget for the fiscal year, which starts in April, to ...
Japan Esports Union vows to promote gaming with eye on 2020 Olympics
Japan Esports Union said Thursday it will accelerate efforts to enhance recognition of competitive video gaming in the country, eyeing possible exposure at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as an exhibition event. "The popularity of esports has grown from last year to this year and we ...
Japan's esports market grew to ¥4.8 billion (about $42.5 million) this year, marking a thirteenfold increase from last year, gaming industry publisher Gzbrain Inc. said Tuesday. A survey by Gzbrain, which publishes popular video game magazine Famitsu, tracked a massive jump in revenue since the ...
