49% owned by the Russian Post, the bank became interested in the gaming audience. The organization plans to attract 100,000 new customers within this niche by the end of 2019. To do this, she took up investments in domestic esports.

Round table about esports. The speakers discussed the role of esports in the gaming industry, the features and impact of esports activities on the developer and publisher.

Australia currently ranks 14th in the world in terms of player spending, Newzoo analysts have calculated. The total revenue of the market in 2018 will be $1.3 billion.

In 2018, the esports market reached $926.3 million in revenue, and by 2023, industry revenues will grow to $2.17 billion, according to the analytical company Research and Markets.

Epic Games has announced its readiness to sponsor Fortnite online action movie tournaments. They will be held in 2018-2019, and the prize fund of the competitions will be $ 100 million.

The profitability of the esports industry is rapidly increasing. In 2017, the turnover of the international virtual competition market was estimated at $655 million. Compared to the previous year, the increase was 33%, according to a report by Newzoo.

The Indian mobile publishing house Nazara Technologies continues to buy up local companies. The next acquisition of Nazara was the esports company Nodwin Gaming.

MTS has acquired the Gambit Esports club, Vedomosti reports.

The broadcast of the opening games of the debut season of the Overwatch League on January 10 on Twitch simultaneously gathered 425 thousand viewers.

Twitch streaming service has agreed with Overwatch League to broadcast league games in the next 2 years. As the Sport Business Journal reports, citing internal sources, the transaction amount was at least $90 million.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recognized competitive esports as a type of sports activity that “can provide a platform for interaction with the Olympic movement.”

The gaming division of the Mail company. Ru Group has prepared a study on the audience of esports tournaments in our country.

Laws against gambling activities of Japanese organized crime hinder the development of the esports competition industry in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation has recognized a new sport — “interactive football”, equating it to mini-football and beach soccer.

The University of California at Irvine (USCI) will include in the curriculum a scholarship course on the Overwatch MMO shooter, whose participants will receive $ 2.5 thousand each.

The casual game Color Switch has entered the world of esports with the support of the Skillz mobile platform.

Tencent Corporation has revealed plans to create an esports industry in China with a turnover of 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) by 2022.

Twitch streaming service has received the exclusive right to broadcast over 20 esports tournaments on Blizzard games during 2018.

The expected turnover of the Chinese mobile cyber market in 2017 will exceed 45 billion yuan ($6.6 billion), an increase of 256% compared to 2016, equal to 13 billion yuan.