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Title: How to follow competitive Vainglory, the iPhone's growing eSports sensation Post by: HCK on April 14, 2017, 04:05:14 pm How to follow competitive Vainglory, the iPhone's growing eSports sensation
<article> <section class="page"> <p>League of Legends and Dota 2—the free-to-play MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) sensations, both playable on Mac (http://www.macworld.com/article/3114587/os-x/which-popular-mac-moba-game-is-best-for-newcomers.html)—are two of the biggest competitive gaming draws today. Both have respectively yielded tens of millions of dollars in tournament prize pools, pulling in millions of viewers to their live-streamed championship events, and the intense fandom surrounding both games shows no signs of slowing.</p><p>It’s indicative of a wider eSports boom, as games as diverse as Street Fighter and Call of Duty support large competitive communities in which top-skilled players battle it out online and at events around the world. And all of that is live-streamed online via portals like Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/), where nearly 10 million people a day watch all kinds of gaming streams. Market intelligence firm Newzoo projects (https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/esports-revenues-will-reach-696-million-in-2017/) that some 385 million people worldwide will tune into eSports streams in 2017, with industry-wide revenues reaching $696 million.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3188585/gaming/how-to-follow-competitive-vainglory-the-iphones-growing-esports-sensation.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How to follow competitive Vainglory, the iPhone's growing eSports sensation (http://www.macworld.com/article/3188585/gaming/how-to-follow-competitive-vainglory-the-iphones-growing-esports-sensation.html#tk.rss_all) |