Raleigh set to host '25 Rocket League Championship
Rocket League is a soccer-like video game for PCs and consoles where the players are vehicles rather than humans, developed and published by Psyonix, which Cary, N.C.-based Epic Games acquired in 2019.
Where will A’s and Rays play in MLB: The Show 2025?
I may be the only person thinking about this, but indulge me, please. With the A’s playing at the River Cats’ SutterHealth Park in West Sacramento for the next few years, and the Rays setting up shop at Steinbrenner Field (the Yankees’ spring training home) for 2025, I’m quite curious about how whic...
Newzoo’s Pulse shows how the beautiful game trumps football on the world stage
EA Sports FC 25 is the top sports and racing game by player engagement for 2024, per Newzoo’s Pulse, a market research monitor from SBJ’s sister company that charts play and streaming activity of games.
Sports Media Podcast: EA's Andrea Hopelain breaks down the 'Madden Cast'
"We are in a really exciting moment in time where what everybody has known us for over the last many years, building arguably the best sports simulation video games on the planet, that is true, including our beloved Madden," said Hopelain, a 2024 SBJ Game Changer. "But we're really beginning to shif...
What will be the biggest thing in sports gaming in 2025?
After more than a year of rumors, look for Nintendo to confirm that the Switch 2 not only exists but also announce a launch date (my money’s on the 2025 holiday season, but don’t be surprised if it doesn’t come out as late as March 2026). The big sports games from EA and 2K have struggled to find co...
Return of EA Sports College Football drove gaming headlines in 2024
In sports gaming, the biggest story of 2024 is EA Sports College Football 25. After sleeping away the past 11 years, it roared back and smashed every realistic expectation, becoming the best-selling sports game of all time. When it came out in July, it captured the attention of the wider sports medi...
NBC Sports to produce its first live sports alt-cast in Madden-themed Chiefs-Texans on Peacock
NBC Sports is preparing its first live sports alt-cast, offering a Madden-themed viewing option on Peacock of the Chiefs-Texans Saturday matinee. The production is a joint effort from NBC, the NFL, EA Sports and Genius Sports, whose data and graphics will help annotate the action in the spirt of the...
EA Sports College Football 25 is the best-selling sports game of all time in the U.S.
“EA Sports College Football 25 was a highly anticipated title prior to launch, but just how big it would be was the question. Once initial sales rolled in, it was clear that it had a shot at becoming the No. 1 seller, then the question became when it would overtake,” said Circana Executive Director/...
Golden Tee maker looking to expand games, competitive leagues
Golden Tee has been around 35 years, and Incredible Technologies is looking for ways to expand not just the games it offers but also strike competitive gaming deals with companies such as Dave & Buster’s or Buffalo Wild Wings.
Undisputed’s surprising early success shows fan desire for boxing games
Boxing games haven’t garnered the attention of the broader audience for a long time, but Undisputed is turning heads. It’s performance on the best-sellers list in October certainly caught me off guard -- as it did with the chart’s curator, Circana Executive Director/Video Games Mat Piscatella.
TNT, Genius, 2K team on gamified NBA alt-casts
TNT Sports will broadcast gamified alt-casts of next week’s 2024 Emirates NBA Cup knockout rounds in partnership with Genius Sports and NBA 2K.
Rezzil releases Premier League Player VR soccer game
Cognitive training company Rezzil released Premier League Player on Tuesday, the first officially-licensed virtual reality soccer game. Rezzil signed a four-year deal with England’s top soccer league back in March. Built using Second Spectrum’s next-generation mesh tracking system Dragon— which uses...
T1 Entertainment & Sports seeks $35 million to expand PC cafes, live events
Fresh off a second straight League of Legends Worlds title, T1 Entertainment & Sports wants to raise $35 million in capital to expand its gaming cafe brand and other operations.
In wake of recent company reorg, Riot Games continues to prioritize esports
Whalen Rozelle, Riot Games’ SVP and COO/esports, is confident that his company’s recent reorganization will result in better multimedia efforts across the company’s verticals, because it’s essentially formalizing relationships under one group that have existed in the previous structure.
Playfly, Extra Life launch EA Sports College Football 25 charity tournament
Playfly Sports’ esports division is working with one of its existing partners, the Extra Life charity, on a new EA Sports College Football 25 tournament in January, timed to take place alongside the CFP. JLab, a manufacturer of headphones and earbuds, is sponsoring the promotion.
International Tennis Hall of Fame creates AI-powered digital card game featuring Hall of Famers
The International Tennis Hall of Fame this week launched a new web-based game with artificial intelligence-powered features called Famers Duel. The game was created in collaboration with Infosys, the ITHF’s digital innovation partner and former title sponsor of the ATP 250 tournament held on its gro...
Golf+ taps New Zealand’s Te Arai as final foreign VR course addition of 2024
Golf+ is adding the acclaimed Te Arai Links South course in New Zealand to its VR game for Meta Quest headsets today, the last of its “remote” updates that add courses from far-flung regions of the world this year. The VR game has also recently added Norway’s Lofoten Links in the Arctic Circle and T...
How social gaming platform Shake is targeting Gen Z with brand rewards
A startup called Shake is putting a new twist on social gaming by emphasizing friendly challenges in free-to-play contests that encourage positive brand involvement.
Playfly Sports continues to profit from college esports
Playfly Sports may be young -- it's four years old -- but it’s an ambitious firm, pushing further into international soccer as its business continues to grow.
2024 C.O.D.E. Bowl, USAA help another 1,800 veterans find good jobs
Veteran’s Day is Monday. My father served in the Vietnam War, and when he returned from his stint as a Navy corpsman (and getting hit by Agent Orange not once but twice, resulting in two battles with cancer that eventually killed him), he was fortunate -- he found a job with the Kentfield Fire Preve...
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“I’ve been in situations of disparity. I think the race team is going to focus on what they have to do this weekend, which I expect them to do. … [Kessler] did an unbelievable job today, and I think I put all my cards on the table”23XI co-owner Michael Jordan, on the impact the legal battle with NASCAR is having on the racing team.
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