For the largest events, from year to year, the question of where an event will be hosted can become one of the biggest issues for everyone from the hosts to the attendees. E3 2020 has been confirmed for the Los Angeles Convention Center, but what about after that?
The same question has been hanging over the well-attended, sprawling, pop culture-celebrating San Diego Comic Comic-Con (SDCC) on the eve of the 2019 convention, which is celebrating its 50th year. That question mark has been changed to ellipses for now, when it was announced that San Diego had cut a deal with the SDCC organization to extend the contract with the San Diego Convention Center through 2024. Even under the current contract, SDCC would be able to organize their annual massive convention — until 2021.
Nothing about arranging a deal like this is simple. From the San Diego Union-Tribune story, David Glanzer, spokesman for Comic-Con International said:
“The bottom line is our attendance has been capped at 135 000 for the last few years, and the cost to put on the show hasn’t been capped. Certainly, nobody expects to pay the same price today for a loaf of bread that they paid 10, 20 years ago, but hopefully we can be here for a long time.”
With that (and other events in mind) considered, voters will be considering whether to approve an increase in the San Diego hotel tax to help underwrite an upgrade and expansion in their local convention center. At the same time, making it easier for SDDC to remain in San Diego was around capping increases on hotel room rates. So far, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune story, 60 hotel properties (14,000 peak night rooms) from their convention room block have made an agreement with SDCC organizers on capping room rates. As an additional incentive, the convention center has also extended a considerable discount for the SDCC through 2024.
No one said being an event organizer was easy. But, at least for attendees, vendors and others involved in this convention, there’s a good chance the San Diego Comic-Con will keep the “San Diego” part of its name for the next five years.
LONDON, ON – July 6, 2019 – Canadian developer and publisher Digital Extremes is proud to reveal a riot of explosive announcements today led by a 30-minute live demonstration of its visionary cooperative space combat expansion, Empyrean, from TennoCon 2019, the fourth annual Warframe® conference. Bustling with a sold-out crowd, Digital Extremes presented Empyrean‘s new, larger-scale cooperative gameplay with fluid ship-to-ship combat, the new ground-breaking multiplayer Squad Link system, and customizable battleship options.
The team also astounded players by unveiling a movie-quality cinematic introduction to Warframe by Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Black Mirror: Playtest, The Boys, Uncharted). This stunning re-imagination of the game’s introductory story presents Trachtenberg’s and Digital Extremes’ vision of an older era in the Warframe universe. In the Old War — the Orokin Era — when the original Warframes rebelled against their Orokin masters, flashback scenes depict them in battle against Dax Warriors in action scenes with proto-Grineer soldiers looming in the background. The new intro brings new narrative context and intense cinematic action to the Warframe universe like never before.
Captivating new trailers of the open world expansion Duviri Paradox and the fourth Cinematic Quest The New War were revealed, along with an extraordinary contest that gives players the chance to win cash toward a trip to space.
Digital Extremes kept the surprises coming by unveiling two Warframe updates, Nightwave Series 2 and Wukong Prime Access, both available immediately across all platforms — PC, PS4™, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch™.
Nightwave is Warframe‘s free, rotating seasonal system. Each Series unfolds over several weeks and tells a brand new story. By completing daily and weekly challenges, Tenno will unlock limited-time, exclusive rewards (gear, cosmetics and more) while experiencing the story as they play. In Series 2: The Emissary players will meet a strange mute child (Arlo) who emerges unharmed from the Infestation and brings with him the miraculous ability to heal the sick.
Wukong Prime is now ready for action! Available to earn through gameplay or purchase, the enduring, swift and unruly Wukong Prime brings eager Tenno an enhanced version of the original for the first time ever. Everybody’s got something to hide, except Wukong Prime!
EMPYREAN EXPANDS DEEP SPACE COMBAT
Empyrean expands the premise of Warframe by handing players and their clanmates the keys to the powerful Railjack battleship. Prepare to soar through the Origin System, explore new territory, and fight hostile forces with serious firepower! With an in-ship interface to control speed and direction, shield deployment, offensive missile volleys and gunner fire — including the ability to deploy Archwings and infiltrate enemy ships — players are now armed with an arsenal of tools to fend off and destroy enemy opposition. Player ships can be upgraded, take damage, and be customized, among many other things.
New details from TennoCon 2019 bring an even deeper level of freedom, power and cooperative gameplay:
Connect the Community With Squad Link!: This ground-breaking multiplayer system connects the world of Warframe in an entirely new way. Transcend beyond your solo objective and connect with the larger community by reaching out to other Tenno squads using the Squad Link. In multi-objective missions from space, players can call up on other squads of active players to help the bigger cause — lower enemy ship shields, steal valuable data, and more.
Assault, Steal and Pilot Enemy Ships: Players can now infiltrate opponent ships using Archwings and command them in a variety of missions. Become a swashbuckling #Spaceninja, Tenno!
Customize and Upgrade Everything: The Drydock is your Railjack’s personal space garage. Build out and upgrade your battleship’s Equipment, Cosmetics, Systems and Reinforcements with a huge array of options, name your ship, and beautify it all by customizing primary, secondary and tertiary colors, accents, decals and more.
Revenge: Enemies have begun adapting to Tenno lethality, and from it kingpins will emerge! Players familiar with Warframe‘s in-development Kingpin system will be rewarded with a first look at how these reactive enemies behave, starting with the Kuva Lich, Emra Rok, in an epic boss fight on the capital ship.
Graphics Upgrade: Digital Extremes is dedicated to providing the single best graphic fidelity to AAA free-to-play gaming. Using a completely re-written rendering technology (“Deferred Renderer”) in its proprietary Evolution Engine, Warframe’s graphics have never looked better.
A BIGGER STORY
The new introduction to Warframe builds a bridge between two eras. For the first time, players can catch a glimpse of the original Warframes fighting in the Old War using their robust Abilities and incredible fighting skills. Couched in a larger narrative, the three enticing flashback sequences are designed to introduce players to choose one of their first chooseable Warframes (Excalibur, Mag and Volt). The new six-minute introduction sets up players with a better understanding of the universe they are about to embark on with a deep, meaningful and more comprehensive storyline for Warframe.
“Getting to work so collaboratively with the dev team at DE has been an awesome experience,” says Great Guns’ Director Dan Trachtenberg. “As a massive fan of the game myself, having logged in hundreds of hours of play time, it’s been so much fun crafting a story that both sets up the universe for new players in a pretty epic way, while sprinkling it with moments that, I hope, make it doubly rewarding for hardcore fans with a better understanding of the game’s lore.”
Digital Extremes plans on incorporating the new introduction in late 2019/early 2020.
The Devstream crew revealed several additional surprises on stage. After the massive Empyrean demo ended, Digital Extremes delivered a new Duviri Paradox update trailer. Following the first two open worlds,The Plains of Eidolon and Fortuna, the DuviriParadox takes players on a reality-bending journey of the surreal. Digital Extremes teased players with the third open world comprised of an ominous new environment where Operators have grown up to become mature adults.
Digital Extremes also unveiled a new trailer from the fourth entry in Warframe‘s narrative series with The New War. The team’s short teaser video relays a new chapter in the saga of the Lotus and the rise of the Sentients.
WIN CASH TOWARD A TRIP TO SPACE!
This year’s TennoCon moves the space needle even further with a spectacular opportunity. In this incredible contest, Digital Extremes will offer players a chance to win $250,000 USD toward a trip to space by playing Warframe in the “Become a Real #SpaceNinja” sweepstakes today. Strap in and prepare for the Gs! Get full details here https://www.warframe.com/spaceninja.
All efforts behind TennoCon are designed for the benefit of Digital Extremes’ players and this year’s charity partner Canadian Mental Health Association, Middlesex Branch (CMHA Middlesex). CMHA will receive a portion of proceeds from TennoCon ticket sales as well as from online donations during the live show. CMHA helps to bring a greater understanding of self-care and mental health to the digital and gaming industry at large. For more, go to https://cmhamiddlesex.ca/.
Would you like to join the Warframe community? Head to our forums to start a conversation. Check our official website at www.warframe.com. To keep up with the latest updates from the development team, be sure to follow Warframe on Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Editor’s note: Embedded YouTube and Twitter content added by Events for Gamers in addition to the press release copy.
SAN JOSE, CA – July 3, 2019 – Back from the year 2029, Silicon Valley Comic Contoday announcedArnold Schwarzenegger will join as a featured guest atSteve Wozniak’s pop culture, tech and science expo. The actor, filmmaker, businessman, philanthropist and politician will make a special appearance Sunday, August 18 with photograph and autograph opportunities available now for purchase at http://bit.ly/SVCCTicketing. Joining the “Terminator” will be former co-stars Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong on both Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18.
SVCC also announced today its first featured programming and keynotes including Chris Hadfield (astronaut andfirst Canadian commander of the International Space Station), Adam Savage (MythBusters, SavageBuilds, Tested.com) and Will Wright (legendary game designer and creator of The Sims, SimCity and Spore). Previously announced guests of SVCC include Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Game of Thrones), Morena Baccarin (Deadpool, Gotham, Firefly), Ben McKenzie (Gotham, Batman: Year One, The OC), Julie Benz (Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel), Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk, Hercules), the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and Andy Weir (The Martian, Artemis) among others. New guest announcements spanning technology, science, comic book, cosplayers and fan groups will be unveiled soon.
“We’re gearing up for another spectacular year of blending tech, science and pop culture all in one weekend and are thrilled to welcome the legend, Arnold Schwarzenegger to the show,” said Rick White, co-founder of Silicon Valley Comic Con. “From celebrity spotlights, photo/autographs, and special events to hundreds of vendors and programming spanning tech, science, comics and entertainment, SVCC has something for all ages that will leave you inspired.”
Powered by VUDU, a Walmart company, SVCC will feature programming from celebrity spotlights, keynotes and fireside chats with famed astronauts and tech luminaries, panels covering immortality, comic book writing, cosplay, AI, VR, 3D printing, space exploration and colonization, blockchain and so much more.
Special events and activities include photograph and autograph opportunities with select guests, the Kids S.T.E.A.M. Lab hosted by AstroReality, the SVCC Science Fair, The Geek Fashion Show, Cosplay Contest, 500+ vendors, an outdoor beer garden with music and show floor activations. Additional attractions include those from NASA, PlayStation, AstroReality, Geico, Wild Bill’s Olde Fashioned Soda, among others.
The fourth annual SVCC will take place at the San Jose Convention Center the weekend of August 16-18, 2019. To be the first to hear more details as they are released, follow SVCC on Twitter (@SVComicCon), Instagram (@SVComicCon) or Facebook (@SVComicCon). Tickets to SVCC be purchased from www.svcomiccon.com. To inquire about sponsorship, exhibiting or media partnerships in 2019, visit SVCC’s exhibitor page.
We’re excited to be presenting yet another great list of upcoming industry events! To help you discover upcoming game industry conferences, conventions, festivals and other events, we post a consolidated list here on Events for Gamers each month.
View July’s event list below. You can also click here for the main calendar view.
The South Korean tech giant, Samsung, has announced its developer-focused conference this year along with a few key details. In a location change from previous years, the Samsung Developer Conference 2019 (SDC 2019) will be hosted in San Jose, California instead of San Francisco. The SDC 2019 event dates will be adjacent to the Halloween holiday, with event dates of October 29-30.
Will Samsung trick or treat gamers with hardware in virtual reality, mobile or software platforms? A hint might come from Samsung’s last high-profile showing in games, which was at this year’s Game Developer Conference (GDC 2019). At GDC 2019, “optimization” seemed to be the key word. Whether it was for different form factors or software development platforms. Their game developer-centric tools GameSDK, GPUWatch, and Adaptive Performance were presented at GDC 2019 — and are likely to receive a further spotlight at SDC 2019.
As for hardware, Samsung may have surprises up its sleeve for gamers but nothing as huge as the company’s much-ballyhooed Samsung Galaxy Fold folding smartphone, which was the centerpiece of the company’s developer conference in 2018. Originally slated for a late April launch, technical issues with main display faults and a visibly noticeable crease when the device is folded have delayed the launch since and forced the cancellation of pre-orders while Samsung addresses the issues. Whichever form the Fold takes, it’s sure to be part of the SDC 2019 program.
Also on the smartphone side, the coming power of 5G cellular network technology will add up to zippy data transfer, broader coverage, and lower latency, which will have a huge impact on the way games are designed and played. Samsung will no doubt be showcasing flagship smartphones, among other devices, featuring 5G speeds.
Speculation aside, no firmed-up details for the Samsung Developer Conference are available at this time. The official SDC 2019 website currently offers a link to registration and a link to sign up for conference updates. Events for Gamers will also be keeping tabs on this conference as the SDC 2019 program and event experience starts taking shape.
Torrance, Calif.—June 27, 2019 — Aksys Games is pleased to announce that Anime Ascension is returning for its fifth triumphant year. The West Coast’s only anime-focused fighting game tournament will run from February 14 through February 16 at Irvine’s Atrium Hotel. Featured games will include Guilty Gear Xrd REV2, BlazBlue Central Fiction, and Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[st], with longtime community favorites Melty Blood Actress Again and Guilty Gear XX Accent Plus R making the jump to the main stage. More games will be announced in the future, so stay tuned for updated info.
Registration is open now and will run through February 1st. The venue fee is $60 and the registration fee is an additional $10 for most of the main games. For those who just want to come and watch the action, there is a spectator fee of $10 per day. Discounted rooms will be available at the Atrium Hotel for tournament participants. Rooms start at $119 per night (double occupancy) and include parking. Call the Atrium Hotel at 1-800-854-3012 and mention Anime Ascension. The special rate is good Thursday night through Sunday night.
E3 2019 has only recently concluded. Most of the stories the industry and game-playing community has been buzzing about from the big show in Los Angeles, California have been filed and published. You’ve seen the press conferences, the pics on Twitter, the stylized video clips on Instagram.
But is that all there is to know about E3? Well, nope, not necessarily!
Technology and gaming YouTube LGR published a start-to-finish travelogue of his trip to E3 this year, from navigating the expo website, to the hassles at the airport … and off they go to LA from there! Over forty minutes of useful planning tidbits, experiences both good and not-so-good, insights into a few of the stops in Los Angeles. This video is a long, polished look at E3 from an attendee with media credentials you’ve (most likely) not seen before. Check it out if you want to get a solid, more comprehensive feel on what the E3 experience is like.
Whether you are an event coordinator, press, or general attendee, if you have an event video to share with us, please let us know and we’ll be happy to feature it.
In an official mailing, the newly-minted GameDaily Connect USA Conference (formerly Casual Connect) was announced, set for August 27-29, 2019 and, like last year’s event, to be hosted at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California.
This year’s North American conference will be the first since Greenlit Content acquired Casual Connect in December 2018. GameDaily is one of Greenlit Content’s games business-focused media brands. Greenlit Content has been subsequently acquired by esports organizational powerhouse, REKTGlobal.
Along with the announcement and new name, GameDaily Connect presented the new, more colorful conference logo as well. Following the link from the announcement email to the event website, however, showed this year’s dates and location but don’t yet reflect the “GameDaily Connect” branding and haven’t shed all of the 2018 conference information. The symposiums, LiveOps Connect and 21st Century Leadership & Power In Diversity Symposium, are listed with 2018 dates, but it’s not clear yet if these symposiums, or if others in replacement, may turn up again this year.
Still, on the conference’s front page, featured speakers and track information for GameDaily Connect is easily found. Event organization through a rebrand is a work in progress on two fronts — and there are two months until the conference — so it may take some time for the conference’s info to be sorted out and updated.
One baton that’s definitely getting passed from Casual Connect to GameDaily Connect is the Indie Game scholarship and awards program. Indie game developer entrants can submit their game for consideration by June 30th.
The GameDaily Connect experience itself will tell how similarly other aspects of the event will follow (or take a different route than) Casual Connect’s style and format and whether it will attract attendees of similar quality and quantity. Keep an eye on Events for Gamers for more information as the conference approaches in late summer.
June 20, 2019 – Reykjavík, Iceland – CCP Games, the creators of the in-depth and uniquely player-driven spaceship MMO game EVEOnline, is about to kick off EVE North, the first officially hosted EVEOnline convention to occur in Canada. This is the fourth event of the year-long EVE Invasion World Tour, a global series of Capsuleer gatherings, bringing EVEOnline closer to its community than ever before. On June 21, EVE North begins a weekend-long EVE-fest in Toronto, at the Delta Hotels Toronto, where EVEOnline developers eagerly await mingling with the attending EVEOnline community, on-site and online.
“The first official EVE event in Canada’s proud history will take place in beautiful downtown Toronto in partnership with EVE North, the stalwart organizers of countless, regular local meets,” said Bergur Finnbogason, Creative Director of EVEOnline. “We’re looking forward to celebrating all things New Eden with our Canadian capsuleers, and to showcasing the latest activity from both the EVETeam and our community to our pilots across the globe.”
Tickets for EVE North are now sold out, but fans can still join in on Saturday 21st June for the first day of the action via the livestream on CCP’s Twitch channel. The full EVE North presentation schedule can be found in CCP’s EVE North Megablog. As round four of eight EVEOnlinefan events that make up the EVE Invasion World Tour, EVE North will feature presentations from CCP developers and the most impressive player presentation schedule yet seen on the world tour, as well as epic parties celebrating EVE’s Canadian community.
The EVE Invasion Tournament Series continues at EVE North, with each EVEInvasion World Tour stop featuring a single-elimination tournament where players can win bragging rights and PLEX. In addition, every winning team from all tournament locations will be invited for a paid trip to CCP’s home in Reykjavik, Iceland, to showcase their prowess in battle and compete against each other at EVE Fanfest 2020. EVE North attendees can sign up for the single elimination 2v2 tournament here.
Future events on the 2019 EVE Invasion World Tour include:
Fanfest HOME (Player’s home, Finland), August 23 @ Kimitoön. Participate via livestream; details to be announced.
G-fleet Berlin (Berlin, Germany), September 13-14 @ AltMünze. Tickets on sale now; more info to follow.
EVE London (London, UK), November 23 @ Indigo at the 02 Arena. Tickets on sale August 23.
For more information, keep an eye on the EVE Community News Feed or follow the hashtag #eveworldtour on social media. EVEOnline can be downloaded for free by visiting www.eveonline.com
About EVEOnline® EVEOnline (PC/Mac) is a compelling, community-driven spaceship MMO game where players can build and pilot a wide variety of starships, traversing vast solar systems for free and choosing their own path from countless options, experiencing space exploration, immense PvP and PvE battles, mining, industry and a sophisticated player economy in an ever-expanding sandbox. EVE is a captivating game in which hundreds of thousands of players compete for riches, power, glory and adventure, forging their own destinies in a single thriving universe. For more information, visit www.eveonline.com.
Oculus Connect, Facebook’s annual developer-focused conference built around their Oculus virtual reality (VR) ecosystem, is heading for its year six event. Oculus Connect 6 (OC6), is date-and-place official: the event will be held September 25th and 26th, returning to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
Earlier this year, at Facebook’s other major developer event, F8, virtual reality was one of the linchpins of the event. At F8, the standalone headset, the Oculus Quest, and the Rift S update on the Rift headset, were both announced for pre-order (and have since launched). After these fresh SKU launches, what new hardware, accessories, services or changes in price points might be announced?
Looking further down the line, perhaps there may be an update on the Oculus Half Dome project, which, even without fresh news about it, still appears to be Oculus’ next step forward in virtual reality hardware.
In an official blog post, the Oculus team not only touches on virtual reality but augmented reality (AR) as well, so it’s possible there will be more insight on plans to expand from VR into AR.
Oculus Studios and Respawn Entertainment to reveal new game title at OC6 (Image credit: Oculus)
One bit of confirmed information about a participating company — from a game developer, no less — was teased in the official OC6 announcements. Respawn Entertainment, the developers who created Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, will be showing off “a new AAA first-person VR combat experience.”
As my use of “maybe” wording has demonstrated, there are more questions than confirmed answers about what to expect from this year’s Oculus Connect, but the event is still months away. Speakers and any other event hallmarks have not been announced yet either. If Oculus Connect agendas from previous years are a measuring stick, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is likely to lead the keynote, with other key talks or keynote contributions from Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash and CTO John Carmack can be expected. On the virtual reality and gaming side, Jason Rubin, Facebook’s VP of Special Gaming Strategies will help lead that aspect of the discussion at OC6.
For more info about Oculus Connect 6, swing by the official blog post for a read.
1. We’ve got the best speaker line-up you’ve ever seen.
Literally! The. Best. Speakers. In Game Quality terms, we’re bringing together the guys and gals that brought us League of Legends, Battlefield, PUBG, Rainbow Six, the Metro series, amongst others. Not to mention, this will be the most international speaker faculty we’ve ever welcomed to the GQF Series. Game Quality Gurus joining us include:
David King, Technical Director, Electronic Arts
Guillaume Desjardins, Dev Testing Lead, Ubisoft
Alexander Andelkovic, Senior Agile Testing Lead, King
Cole Tufts, QA Lead, RiotGames
Ghulam Khan, Head of QA and Localisation, SEGA
John Pompei, Head of Player Experience, Electronic Arts
Mike Kim, Localisation Director, Tencent
Quinn Barbuta, QA Manager, GuerrillaGames
Chris Howell, Principal QA Engineer, Natural Motion Games
Rudolf Thomas Inderst, International Community Specialist, Koch Media
Michelle Mangio, Director of Product Quality, Amazon Game Studios
And this is just a few – over 40 Game Quality experts from QA, Localisation and Community Management/Player Support will be presenting on everything from automation and machine learning to service quality measurement. Check out the full speaker line-up on the GQF Global website.
2. It’s the only Game Quality event that focuses on bringing together all departments involved in Game Quality – QA, Localisation and Player Support/Community Engagement.
We’ve all seen the tide shift towards a much stronger focus on improving internal collaboration over the past few years – It’s clear that to get the best quality games out there, you need to have a team that is working in harmony, with the right work flows, processes and software to back it up.
Besides our mega star speaker panel, the list of studios and publishers already confirmed to attend reads like a who’s who of Gaming. If you’re not on the list, you’re missing out!
Confirmed attendees include: Rovio Entertainment, EADICE, Capcom, ParadoxInteractive, Bethesda, CreativeAssembly, JagexNintendo, , Bandai Namco Entertainment, WBGames, Wargaming.net, and many more.
This is your one annual opportunity to Network ‘Like a Boss’.
Meet all the main players in the industry and make the most of this opportunity to learn from each other and improve overall Game Quality. See who else is coming – download the sample delegate list or request a copy via email: mailto:enquire@iqpc.co.uk
4. Be the first to see and hear about the latest tech out there.
The Game Quality Forum Global welcomes the best, and most innovative solutions providers in the world. From all round service providers, to localisation, testing or software specialists – we’ve got them all. Our Sponsors list includes:
We’ve got a real treat in store for you. Not only are we hosting this year’s forum in the incredible city of Amsterdam, but we’ve also got sponsored networking and drinks receptions hosted by Quantic Labs (25th) and Testronic (26th) and then to finish up, we’re hosting the Gaming IQ party at the Strandzuid!
This a chance for you to kick back after a hard few day’s learning and networking! Available to everyone at no extra charge, this year’s party is a ‘Thank you’ to our wonderful Gaming IQ community for their continued support and celebration of our new global forum – get ready to have some fun in one of the most beautiful venues in Amsterdam. For more info on the extra curricular activities going on at GQF Global – download the Event Guide.
So – If you haven’t already booked on to join us 25-27 June, then register now before it is too late!
New York, NY – June 11, 2019 – ReKTGlobal, the global esports business authority and parent company of Rogue, today announces its acquisition of New Jersey-based Greenlit Content, a hybrid company that is behind some of gaming’s most popular sites including TwinGalaxies.com, Shacknews.com, GameDaily.Biz and PrimaGames.com, and also creates viral branded gaming content, events and activations in collaboration with some of the world’s most popular consumer companies such as Xbox, HyperX, Chips Ahoy!, Warner Bros.,and Redbox. Greenlit Content reaches up to 100 million gamers monthly through specially curated video, social and editorial content.
Further solidifying relationships between the gaming, esports and non-endemic brand communities, the deal will bring together Greenlit Content’s extensive media network, global GameDaily Connect conferences, gaming audience and brand partners like E3, Comic-Con International, The Beard Club, Activision Blizzard and Dell, with top ReKTGlobal clients such as State Farm, Find Your Grind and NBC Sports, celebrity partners Tainy, Steve Aoki and Imagine Dragons, and Rogue esports players across popular titles including Fortnite, Apex Legends, FIFA, Rainbow Six: Siege and League of Legends.
In addition to serving as a brand partner for E3, Greenlit Content is co-producing the official 2019 E3 Esports Zone. As co-producers, the show features several game exhibitions with NBA 2K, Fortnite, Rocket League and Smash Bros. on the main stage, interviews with dozens of industry notables on the Shacknews content stage, and will host top esports influencers during the official after party on June 11.
“This month celebrates ReKTGlobal’s two-year launch anniversary, and the growth we’ve seen this year alone has been remarkable,” said Dave Bialek, CEO of ReKTGlobal. “After being in talks with Greenlit Content since early 2018, we are thrilled that the acquisition is now complete and look forward to diversifying our assets in order to expand our overall reach and dominate the industry together.”
John Benyamine, CEO and Co-Founder of Greenlit Content remarked, “Although we had a number of other offers from gaming and esports organizations, ReKTGlobal made the most sense for expanding our business and connecting with a global audience. Not only does the vision outlined by Dave and Amish embody our own, we are excited about the opportunity to integrate with the extremely impressive talent and esports roster that ReKTGlobal brings to the table.”
Amish Shah, co-founder of ReKTGlobal added, “We are always looking to add companies to our portfolio that align with our long-term vision. The merger between ReKTGlobal and Greenlit Content was a strategic decision that will give ReKTGlobal the ability to penetrate the market due to our newly combined portfolio and ability to reach over 100 million enthusiastic gamers and esports fans.”
“While esports is a big part of Greenlit Content’s portfolio, we also work with endemic and non- endemic brands across gaming and mixed reality,” commented John Gaudiosi, President and Co-Founder of Greenlit Content. “With the backing of ReKTGlobal, we can continue to grow the esports audience, while offering clients content marketing opportunities with built-in ROI across our network of sites, social, international game developer conferences and consumer- focused events across the U.S.”
ReKTGlobal recently announced the addition of legendary Latin music producer Tainy and music executive Lex Borrero as investors, expanding its growing group of entertainment investments from major music forces that include world renowned EDM sensation Steve Aoki, Billboard Award-winning members of Imagine Dragons, and Live Nation.
In addition to raising $10.8 million in Series A funding earlier this year on behalf of Rogue’s global expansion and entry into the League of Legends Europe Championship (LEC), ReKTGlobal also welcomed 18 esports players into the second semester of its Junior Rogue professional gaming accelerator program that provides amateur Fortnite players with opportunities to succeed in esports, and worked with State Farm to announce its first ever endorsement of an esports athlete, Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo, a top Twitch streamer and the captain of Rogue’s Fortnite team.
