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The Call of Duty League (CDL) has welcomed its latest addition, the Vegas Falcons, marking the end of the Vegas Legion's run. Team Falcons, a Saudi Arabia-based organisation, has officially taken over the CDL spot previously held by the Vegas Legion, ahead of the 2024/2025 season. https://twitter.com/TeamFalconsGG/status/1826347413344584156 C...
One of the world's biggest and richest esports events, the Esports World Cup 2024, is ongoing with many esports games taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The past weekend of 8th to 11th August was Street Fighter 6, which featured a huge number of top players such as Punk, AngryBird, Xiaohai, Tokido, and many more. The tournament's final 32 pla...
The first-ever Honor of Kings Invitational Midseason at the 2024 Riyadh Esports World Cup saw the KPL Dream Team emerge victorious, securing a share of the US$3 million prize pool and a spot in the upcoming Championship in Indonesia. This event, the start of a three-year partnership with the Esports World Cup, showcased thrilling esports action. ...
After much planning and back-and-forth, the video games industry has its own official Olympic Esports Games event. In its 142nd session, The International Olympic Committee has voted "yes" to the creation of the Olympic Esports Games. The inaugural event will be hosted in Saudi Arabia in 2025. This is a week after the IOC announced its partnersh...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has signed a 12-year agreement with the Saudi National Olympic Committee (NOC) to host the Olympic Esports Games in Saudi Arabia. This landmark partnership will kick off with the inaugural event in 2025. Saudi Arabia has been a significant player in the esports arena, most recently hosting the Esports Wo...
In a significant move to expand its global and regional footprint, the popular mobile game Honor of Kings has allocated US$15 million for its 2024 roadmap. This investment will support the game's growth from grassroots levels to amateur and professional stages. Honor of Kings recently concluded the HoK Invitational Season 2, where Malaysia's LGD...
In a dramatic turnaround, Malaysia’s LGD Gaming clinched victory over compatriots Team Secret, winning 3-2 in the Honor of Kings Invitational Season 2 held in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Despite an initial 0-2 deficit, LGD Gaming displayed remarkable resilience, winning the next three games to secure the championship. These were their only losses ...
Level Infinite's relaunch of the multiplayer online battle arena title Honor Of Kings is making waves, with a new tournament season happening soon. The Honor of Kings Invitational Season 2 will be starting on 29 June in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will feature 13 big teams and a US$300,000 prize pool. The winners will not only get the lion's sha...
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang developer Moonton just published a new video promoting its upcoming female team-only tournament on the grandest of stages: the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The new video trailer brings up the fact that the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Women's Invitational 2024 tournament is one of the biggest-ever of its kind...
The Saudi Arabia-based Qiddiya Investment Company have announced that they will be constructing the World’s only ever Dragon Ball theme park as part of their "Qiddiya" giga project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Dragon Ball theme park is planned to be over 500,000 square meters and features seven different areas that recreate various iconic loca...
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is set to be a featured competitive title at the Esports World Cup, with the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup (MSC) and the MLBB Women's Invitational (MWI) expanding their reach beyond Southeast Asia to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. This move is a first for these events. Boasting over 1.46 billion install...
The culminating day of the Overwatch World Cup 2023 was an absolute spectacle, with a nail-biting series that stretched to five intense maps each. In a thrilling grand final showdown, China, after a gripping face-off, secured second place following an unexpected turn, granting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the title of champions. Emerging victorio...
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse, the highly-acclaimed international animated film, has been pulled from the Middle East release schedule, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and several other Middle Eastern countries. The sequel to the 2018 film, Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse was scheduled to debut on 22 June across t...
Hats off to Square Enix for not changing up its Final Fantasy game for one country that doesn't share its ideals. The upcoming Final Fantasy 16 for PlayStation 5 will be coming out for all countries save for one: Saudi Arabia. This is according to an official ratings board update by the country's General Commission for Audiovisual Media (via Vid...
The Big N is having small parts of it being owned by the Kingdom. A Reuters report states that the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, chaired by crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, now has 6.07% stake in Nintendo, making the Kingdom one of the largest shareholders in the Japanese company. Previously, they owned 5.01%. Nintendo has yet to comm...
A new report has claimed that the World Wrestling Entertainment AKA the WWE has been sold to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. According to Steven Muehlhausen of DAZN Wrestling, as a result of this alleged acquisition, the WWE "will go back to being private" for the first time since it originally became a publicly traded company back in Octobe...
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which is the country's bottomless pit of money used to diversify into sectors beyond oil, has a new acquisition in place: a small chunk of the Big N. Saudi Arabia now has 5.01% stake in Nintendo according to a Bloomberg report that detailed a recent Japanese Finance Ministry filing. Other companies with som...
The censorship board of Saudi Arabaia wants Disney to cut the LGBTQ references from the upcoming film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness/Doctor Strange 2. The studio and Marvel by extension has refused to do so, at this point in time. A report from Agence France-Presse (via The Guardian) said that Saudi Arabia's general supervisor of ci...
The company that made The King of Fighters XV and other classic 2D action and fighting games is pretty much fully owned by Saudi Arabian royalty. In late 2020, the company known as Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC), that is owned by Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, previously purchased a 33% stake and became SNK's larges...
Not one to be left out of the big software companies buying other big game-making companies spiel, the country of Saudi Arabia wants in on the action. First with SNK (via Mohammed bin Salman) and ESL, and now with Capcom and Nexon. The country has invested US$1 billion and own 5% of Capcom and Nexon. Basically, about US$332 million went to Capco...
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