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04/06/23: Creatives are starting to tap into the true power of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite

Thursday April 6, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Creatives are starting to tap into the true power of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and the maps, gameplay and other creations have inspired industry experts to reexamine the potential of the metaverse. Epic Games released […]

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03/30/23: Misfits’ journey from esports organization to something more

Thursday March 30, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Misfits’ journey from esports organization to something more continued this week with the announcement of Pixel Playground, a Roblox game studio co-founded by two recent additions to Misfits: co-owners and Misfits creative directors Kreekcraft, the world’s […]

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And the Winner of This Year’s Upfront Is…

Will ad-supported CTV be the winner of this year’s Upfront? Tony Marlow, CMO of LG Ad Solutions, thinks so. He makes his case here. 1) For starters, CTV continues to take a larger share of the buy, especially as we see ad-supporting viewing options reaching substantial scale. Advertiser Perceptions data found that 40% of upfront […]

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03/23/23: Game Developers Conference in San Francisco

Thursday March 23, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Stinging rain, bike valet stations and long lunch lines at Chipotle have made for a feisty atmosphere at the 2023 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, which is hosting tens of thousands of attendees. […]

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03/16/23: SVB collapse affects gaming, esports orgs

Thursday March 16, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse impacted several major game developers, though esports organizations remained largely unscathed by the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The financial and venture capital news of the week – SVB folding in […]

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What Makes a Novel a Buzzy TV Series?

Three-time-Emmy nominee, and former editor-in-chief of “Seventeen Magazine” and “Soap Opera Digest” Meredith Berlin has released her debut novel, Friends With Issues. The characters – three glamorous, self-made women in their 40s, entangled with one charismatic man – seems made for a TV series (calling David E. Kelley). Not surprisingly Berlin, whose career has been […]

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03/09/23: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is getting a sequel

Thursday March 9, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is getting a sequel more than 10 years after release of the current version of the game, according to a report from esports reporter Richard Lewis. CS:GO launched in 2012 after multiple iterations […]

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03/02/23: Kroenke Sports and Entertainment-backed esports organization The Guard has laid off the majority of its staff

Thursday March 2, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Kroenke Sports and Entertainment-backed esports organization The Guard has laid off the majority of its staff, with only a skeleton crew remaining to support its competitive programs. The Guard was founded in 2021 as KSE, a […]

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02/23/23: Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox titles to Nintendo consoles

Thursday February 23, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal to bring Xbox titles to Nintendo consoles, a move that could have repercussions for Microsoft’s ongoing bid to acquire Activision-Blizzard and bring games like Call of Duty to the Nintendo […]

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Getty Teams with SeeHer for Visual Storytelling Guide

A SeeHer Series By Tristen Norman, Director, Creative Insights, Getty Images When conversations began about a collaboration between Getty Images and SeeHer, it was the fall of 2019. We were weeks away from the first reported case of COVID, and what would become a very challenging time for people around the globe, but particularly for […]

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