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Gaming Giant Kinguin Taps Immutable X for NFT Offering

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Enjin Attracts Binance and Microsoft to NFT Project

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Ole Gunnar Solskjær joins ULTI Agency, OverActive Media raises $40m | ESI Digest #38

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, Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Jim Solbakken becoming owners of ULTI Agency, OverActive Media’s $40m investment, Enthusiast Gaming looking to list shares on NASDAQ, Epic Games raising $1bn, and the University of Kentucky (UK) joining forces with Gen.G to launch an

Enthusiast Gaming Files SEC Registration, NASDAQ Listing to Go Live Next Week 

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) listed Canadian esports and media company Enthusiast Gaming Holdings announced that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of the company’s efforts to get its common shares listed on the NASDAQ. Following the effectiveness of the Form 40-F filed with the SEC, Enthusiast Gaming will become a reporting issuer in the U.S., which is a requirement for the company’s listing on the NASDAQ.  Enthusiast Gaming is already operationally present in the U.S., including an operations office, broadcast studio, and sales group in Los Angeles, and additional sales

Enthusiast Gaming announces intention to list shares on NASDAQ

North American esports organisation Enthusiast Gaming has announced its intention to list shares on the NASDAQ, as the company aims to expand its shareholder base and increase development. As such, the organisation, which owns Luminosity Gaming, Overwatch League franchise Vancouver Titans, and Call Of Duty League side Seattle Surge, has filed a Registration Statement on Form 40-F with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Credit: Enthusiast Gaming RELATED: Brazilian company Final Level raises £1.14m Form 40-F being declared effective by the SEC is a requirement for the organisation to list

Tournament platform Epulze secures £4.7m investment

Swedish esports tournament platform Epulze has secured an investment of SEK 57m (∼£4,74m) from its latest funding round. According to the release, participants in the funding round included Swedish financial group Svea Ekonomi and Norwegian Carucel Finance. Credit: Epulze RELATED: Epulze announces long-term partnership with VPgame The funding is expected to help the company enter into a ‘new phase’, with the esports tournament platform looking to add new game titles and functions, whilst also expanding its ecosystem. Currently, the platform only supports Dota. Mattias Lövgren, CEO and Co-Founder at Epulze, commented on securing

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

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

World Series of Poker® Announces Plans for 2021

LAS VEGAS, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Series of Poker (WSOP) today announced much-anticipated plans for 2021, including the return of the live, in-person World Series of Poker event and $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, best known as "The Main Event®". World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino The world-famous tournament series, which experienced record-smashing participation in 2019 and adjusted to a hybrid format to accommodate 2020, will be back in-person at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino this fall pending applicable state and/or regulatory

Micosoft’s Bethesda Acquisition is Another Step Closer to Completion

US regulators seem to have approved the deal. Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media is a major deal in every sense of the word, so it’s not surprising that it’s taking some time for it to be formally approved. Currently, the deal is in that approval process, and it seems it’s now come another step closer to its closure. As recently spotted by Klobrille on Twitter, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission recently published a “notice of effectiveness” for the acquisition, which means refers to