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OWL 2021 Power Rankings – #13 Chengdu Hunters

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Time Stamp: April 13, 2021 10:16 AM - Modified On: April 13, 2021 - Published By:
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The Chengdu Hunters come 13th of our Overwatch League 2021 power rankings. The team is one of the most flexible in the entire League, with a large roster allowing frequent replacements. What's black and white and about to smash through the rankings? Check out the @ChengduHunters in #OWL2021 Presented by @Xfinity pic.twitter.com/uUSqhgEHNe — Overwatch League (@overwatchleague) March 16, 2021 Chengdu Hunters 2021 Roster Preview The Chengdu Hunters have one of the largest rosters in the entire Overwatch League. With a total of 12 players, the team has two starting players

March Investment Recap: More Than $200M of Fresh Capital Gets Injected into the Esports Ecosystem 

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2021 2:00 PM - Modified On: April 1, 2021 - Published By:
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During the month of March 2021, The Esports Observer tracked 23 investments raised by esports-relevant companies. Disclosed investments amounted to $233M USD, bringing the total sum of disclosed investments in 2021 to $1.9B.  In addition to several significant investments, including Overwolf’s $50M+ and Envy Gaming’s 40M Series C financing rounds, several private placement deals by Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange listed esports companies, and multiple seed round investments, a couple of major deals in the works came to light during the month. Super League Gaming is in the process of acquiring live streaming technology platform Mobcrush at a transaction value likely to exceed $60M and Microsoft is in talks to acquire gaming

How ByteDance plans to crack the gaming industry

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Time Stamp: March 12, 2021 3:42 AM - Modified On: March 12, 2021 - Published By:
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For the last few years, ByteDance, the parent company of short video app TikTok, has been working to diversify its revenue streams beyond advertisement and find more ways to monetize its hundreds of millions of users. One area it is targeting is gaming, which has historically been a lucrative business in China’s internet economy. China is the world’s largest gaming market, generating revenues of $40.85 billion in 2020, according to market research firm Newzoo. The United States trailed behind at $36.92 billion. But competition is also intense. Giants Tencent and

Out Now: ‘Hyena Squad’, ‘PAKO Caravan’, ‘Dungeoning’, ‘Neuroshima Convoy’, ‘Conjurer Andy’s Repeatable Dungeon’, ‘Crux: A Climbing Game’, ‘LegendArya’, ‘OLO Loco’ and More

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Time Stamp: September 9, 2020 11:24 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and then refresh those features each Thursday. Because of that developers got into the habit of releasing their games throughout Wednesday or very early Thursday in order to hopefully get one of those coveted features spots. Nowadays the App Store refreshes

India bans 100 more Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Tencent’s hit games, as border tensions accelerate

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Time Stamp: September 3, 2020 6:16 PM - Modified On: September 3, 2020 - Published By:
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In late June, we covered a story about the India government after it banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, and UC Browser. Since then tensions between China and India have escalated amid border disputes in the Himalayas.  In June, a border clash between the two nations left 20 Indian soldiers dead. Yesterday, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announces a ban on 118 additional Chinese apps with links to China including Tencent’s hit games, PUBG, Baidu, and others. So far, the India government has now banned over 200 mostly Chinese mobile

ESL Australia, NetEase Announce Mobile Partnership for MARVEL Super War Esports

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Time Stamp: September 1, 2020 2:52 PM - Modified On: September 1, 2020 - Published By:
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ESL Australia has partnered with game publisher NetEase to develop mobile esports initiatives in Australia and New Zealand for the soon-to-be released MARVEL Super War – a League of Legends–esque MOBA title for Android and iOS. ESL will operate two online tournaments as part of the game’s ANZ launch, as well as partnering with Australian content creators to develop video content for the game. The goal of the partnership, according to a release, is to “set up a long-term competitive ecosystem,” for the title in the ANZ region. ESL has

‘EVE: Echoes’ from CCP Games and Netease Is Now Available Early on the App Store, Servers Go Live Tomorrow

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Time Stamp: August 12, 2020 1:43 AM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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TouchArcade Rating: EVE: Echoes () from CCP Games and Netease was originally revealed back in 2018 with planned 2019 release before it got delayed. The ambitious mobile MMO EVE: Echoes was finally confirmed to release this month and pre-orders and pre-registrations recently went live on the App Store and Google Play. If you’ve not followed the game at all, EVE: Echoes is an EVE game set in an alternate universe that promises to be a competent take on the massive EVE Online for mobile devices. It has gone live a

War Chest 6 to support GTC in China

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2020 2:03 PM - Modified On: August 10, 2020 - Published By:
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Earlier today, SCBoy and Netease have announced that all purchases of War Chest 6 made from the 10th of August to the 2nd of September will help upgrade the prize pool of the Gold Series Team Championship 2020 Fall Season, which has had its first matches today. 25% of every sale will go towards this purpose. This offer is only available to users in China.For now, the War Chest will offer the same in-game items as in the rest of the world, but SCBoy have long had the ambition to

Huawei Named Top  Sponsor of $420K NetEase Esports X Tournament Summer Season 

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Time Stamp: July 24, 2020 2:23 PM - Modified On: July 24, 2020 - Published By:
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Chinese game publisher NetEase announced six sponsors for its NetEase esports X Tournament (NeXT) Summer Season, including Chinese smartphone brand Huawei.  According to the sponsor list of NeXT, Huawei Game Center will be the top sponsor in the tournament. Bicycle brand Forever and PC brand HP will also sponsor the tournament as industrial sponsors. Chinese electric vehicle brand Xiao Peng will act as a strategic partner of  NeXT. Hardware brand Razer and WD_Black will provide their products to the tournament.  Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. The NeXT

Bungie Vet Says Destiny Deal With Activision Was “Bad From The Start”; Microsoft Almost Signed The Game

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Time Stamp: July 6, 2020 11:01 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Video game industry veteran Martin O'Donnell, who composed the music for Halo and was on Bungie's board of directors, has spoken very openly about the deal Bungie made with Activision and how it all fell apart. The long and short of it is that O'Donnell had a bad feeling about the deal for the Destiny series from the very beginning, but the whole story is like something out of a movie.Speaking to YouTuber HiddenXperia, O'Donnell first clarified that it was Bungie's seven members of the board of directors that collectively