ESPN’s celebrity Madden NFL 20 tournament will feature everyone from DeAndre Hopkins to Snoop Dogg to Katie Nolan
Pat McAfee, Cam Jordan, Travis Kelce and others are also involved.
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ELEAGUE will show all-access footage from Final Kombat 2020, one of the last live U.S. esports events before the shutdown
ELEAGUE Presents Mortal Kombat 11 Final Kombat will provide an all-access look at the Final Kombat 2020 competition, held in Chicago in early March.
Kyle Larson suspended indefinitely for using racial slur during virtual NASCAR race
Larson's racial slur was picked up on many drivers' Twitch streams.
Jon Miller and Dave Flemming had a great call of the Giants’ “home opener,” part of Strat-O-Matic’s ongoing MLB season simulation
Strat-O-Matic is simulating each day's scheduled MLB games, and San Francisco Giants' announcers Jon Miller and Dave Flemming called the generated results for what would have been the Giants' home opener Friday.
FS1’s NASCAR iRacing broadcast struck a perfect balance between fun and competition
The broadcast managed to have fun and not take it too seriously while still respecting the event.
NBC Sports Washington will air video game simulations of remaining Capitals, Wizards games
The Wizards and Capitals will resume playing their regular schedules on NBC Sports Washington....kind of.
2K Games regains NFL license for video games, but can’t make a Madden competitor
The return of NFL Blitz?
New ELEAGUE Super Punch community-driven live gaming show looks to combine Twitch and linear TV
ELEAGUE Super Punch will be a three-hour Twitch broadcast from Mondays through Thursdays, but an hour-long TBS broadcast surrounded by two complementary Twitch hours on Fridays.
ELEAGUE to produce three top FIFA 20 events, two in Europe, and provide documentary coverage on TBS
ELEAGUE will be producing three EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Ultimate Team (FUT) Champions Cup events this year, one in Atlanta and two in Europe. They'll also be providing a lot of EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Global Series coverage on TBS.
Kids at Play’s Jason Berger talks “Battlestations” partnership with Bleacher Report, attempt to hit sports and gaming audiences
"We just started to really dive into where the places are where the sports fan was at that might also have some crossover with the gaming community."
Both CBS and NBC now have esports comedies under development, with the CBS one involving Rick Fox and based on his story
One esports comedy project involving Big Bang Theory executive producer Johnny Galecki and writer/co-executive producer Anthony Del Broccolo is in development at NBC, while another one involving Rick Fox and Dan Koppelman has a put pilot order at CBS.
Blizzard/Hong Kong saga has led to protests, censorship, boycotts, a caster resigning, and an employee walkout
The NBA/China dispute isn't the only one going on, as Blizzard's punishments for pro-Hong Kong protester content have also come under fire and led to a lot of notable backlash.
ELEAGUE has a documentary series coming on Rocket League players and their families, premiering after MLB postseason games
The first two episodes of this new series will air after TBS' MLB postseason coverage on Oct. 4 and Oct. 11.
ESPN delaying Apex Legends broadcast until October in the wake of El Paso and Dayton mass shootings
ESPN has decided to postpone the broadcast of Apex Legends, a battle royale first-person shooter.
Two NFL players are so upset over their Madden ratings that they’re boycotting the game
Chargers' WR Keenan Allen and Cowboys' DE DeMarcus Lawrence are threatening to boycott Madden '20 over anger about their ratings, with Lawrence also calling for Cowboys' fans to join that boycott.
