What do you think is the country with the biggest world-wide esports revenue? The US? Japan? Korea? No, not quite. China, with a staggering $37.9 billion of esports revenue in 2018 alone. This money was spent across the 619.5 million players in the country – not only is that more than half of the country’s population, there are only two places in the world (India and, of course, China itself) whose population is higher than that.

Credit card services company Discover has signed it’s first esports sponsorship with Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) East.

Although the sponsorship is limited to just the weekend activities, but it marks the third major US credit card brand to enter gaming, following Mastercard’s long-term deal with Riot Games and Visa’s 2017 deal with SK Gaming.

It’s been a long, hard slog for Gearbox and Borderlands fans who’ve been eagerly awaiting the next Borderlands game for literally years.

The company behind one of the most beloved franchises of all time has been teasing the release of a new game heavily hinted to be Borderlands 3. Like, really heavily hinted.

Gearbox clearly loved stringing us all along, and continued to do so until the last few minutes of its time on the PAX main stage.

Well, the waiting paid off because Borderlands 3 is officially official, and we couldn’t be more excited!

We are living in the times where Esports was never more outspread, and it’s only getting bigger. The Esports economy was the primary subject at the Game Developers Conference. They discussed the opportunities and the overall worth of the industry at the San Francisco gathering.

Today, almost all of the Esports economy is focused primarily on the United States and Asian territories. According to several sources, Esports is set to hit $1 billion in revenue this year for the first time. The majority of this money comes from sponsorship, advertising, and media rights.

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“If you asked anyone a year ago about PUBG succeeding as an esports, most would say it’s an improbable or impossible venture.”

About two years ago PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds brought the Battle Royal genre to the forefront of gaming and streaming media with a game everyone seemed to want to play and stream. The genre then spawned countless games on various platforms like Fortnite, Apex Legends, CS:GO Danger Zone among many others.  As the player base of PUBG seems to dwindle as the genre popularized, the team at PUBG Corp. decided to double down and turn it into a full-fledged esport title.

Singapore is a country that was always interested in video games. As of now, Singaporeans spend 7.4 hours on average playing games every day. This means they are the most gamer country in the Asia Pacific region! So, it’s natural that Esports is a big thing, and Singapore Esports is watched daily.In terms of consecutive hours played, they are the first in the world. This is according to the State of Online Gaming report done by Limelight Networks. This consumers’ gaming behaviors report says that they spend consecutively an average of 1.56 hours gaming.