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CouRage and Valkyrae become 100 Thieves co-owners, BMW announces esports manga | ESI Digest #37

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Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is available on all major podcast platforms and is also available in written form below. On this week’s ESI Digest we cover, Valkyrae and CouRage being announced as 100 Thieves co-owners, Astralis Group looking to trade in the US market, BMW Esports launching a manga series, Jackson’s LCS and PENTAKILL partnership, plus GRID’s $10m investment.  This edition of the ESI Digest is in

BMW Esports creates ‘Heroes of Rivalry’ manga, presents OG Esports as new partner

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BMW Esports, the esports division of german automotive company BMW, has unveiled ‘Heroes Of Rivalry’, a manga series featuring its United in Rivalry team partners. BMW Esports’s United in Rivalry partners include Cloud 9, FNATIC, FunPlus Phoenix, G2 Esports and T1. However, the announcement also revealed that European organisation OG Esports has been announced as its latest addition. Screenshot credit: BMW Esports RELATED:  BMW partners with Cloud9, Fnatic, FunPlus Phoenix, G2 Esports, and T1 OG Esports, well known for its time in Dota 2, is BMW’s first United in Rivalry partner that

SEAT Becomes First Automotive Partner in OverActive Media Portfolio Through MAD Lions Deal

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Esports organization OverActive Media has announced a partnership between Spanish automobile manufacturer SEAT and its Spain-centered team brand MAD Lions. This marks the first automotive partnership in the OAM portfolio, as well as the entry of SEAT into the esports space. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Activations will include in-person events as well as digital promotions, and SEAT will be integrated into content created by the organization. OAM has secured several partnerships for MAD Lions thus far in 2020 including multi-year deals with GLS Spain and Razer. Coinsmart.

Rocket Pro TPO Announces Primary Sponsorship of #16 Chevrolet Piloted by Simona De Silvestro in the Indianapolis 500, First Female INDYCAR Team to Partner on Content Highlighting Women in the Mortgage Industry

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Piloted by Simona De Silvestro, the #16 Chevrolet represents a groundbreaking achievement in INDYCAR as the first-ever entrant in the Indianapolis 500 from a team that is female-owned, female driven and largely female crewed.  As the primary sponsor, Rocket Pro TPO will be front-and-center with dominant branding on the car, firesuit and crew suits. "Having Rocket Pro TPO come onboard as our primary sponsor for this year's Indy 500 is a perfect partnership," said Beth Paretta, CEO/team principal of Paretta Autosport. "We are both huge proponents of highlighting the power

The NPD Group: Fourth Quarter 2020 U.S. Consumer Spending on Video…

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Growth across almost all gaming segments drove the market to record spending in both the fourth quarter and the year. PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 01, 2021 According to the Q4 2020 Games Market Dynamics: U.S.* report from The NPD Group, overall total consumer spending on video gaming in the U.S. continued to break records, reaching $18.6 billion in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020 (October – December), an increase of 26% compared to Q4 2019. Full-year U.S. games industry consumer spend across all categories reached $57 billion, a 27%

Porsche Design and AOC Gaming Announce 2020-2021 Partnership

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MILPITAS, Calif. (PRWEB) October 13, 2020 Porsche Design and AOC Gaming have entered a partnership that combines Porsche Design’s sophisticated and functional design philosophy with AOC’s state-of-the-art display technology. Together they will bring exceptional gaming monitors to the market, developed for gamers looking for the highest performance while infusing their gaming stations dramatic style. The first ever Porsche Design AOC AGON gaming monitor will be launched in autumn 2020. The Porsche Design brand is synonymous with exclusive lifestyle products, which stands for precision and perfection. The company’s pure design philosophy

Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic Games lowers the cost of V-Bucks

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Apple has removed Fortnite from the App Store after the game’s developer announced new payment options that allow players to buy in-game credits direct from Epic Games. In response, Epic has taken legal action and filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Northern California to end Apple’s anti-competitive restrictions on mobile device marketplaces. The new payment option appears to skirt Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store rules, which require Epic to give up a 30% cut of the revenue made through the app. In announcement on its website, Epic dropped

wolfSSL Compiles Most Comprehensive Set of Cryptographic Benchmarks

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EDMONDS, Wash. (PRWEB) August 05, 2020 The wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library was written from the ground-up with portability, performance, and memory usage in mind. Our benchmarks outshine our competitors because we focus on high quality engineering utilizing latest assembly speedups and highly optimized code. We also produce the best tested crypto on the market. Users can reference the wolfSSL and wolfCrypt Benchmarking page to see how we set ourselves ahead of the pack: https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/benchmarks/ Good benchmarking practices reflect good code quality. To provide the most in-depth benchmark testing, wolfSSL looks

Daniel Abt fired from Audi’s Formula E team for using pro sim driver in virtual race

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Audi fired Daniel Abt from its Formula E racing team after learning he had a professional sim driver race for him during a virtual competition called the “Race at Home Challenge” held over the weekend. The automaker said in a statement via Formula E that Abt had been suspended from Audi Sport “with immediate effect.” However, it appears the consequences are more serious and final. Abt said in a video message published Tuesday on YouTube that Audi had dropped him from the team. “Today I was informed in a conversation