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McDonald's Collaborates with BCGA and Gen.G to Continue Supporting Students in Gaming and Esports

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

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The HBCU+ College netWORK event brings together figures from gaming and esports to share their personal stories and provide guidance on how to navigate a career in the field.

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The HBCU+ College netWORK event brings together figures from gaming and esports to share their personal stories and provide guidance on how to navigate a career in the field.
Students will learn from industry pros on their gaming and esports path with a focus on the role of how their own collegiate journeys played a part.
Throughout the day, students will learn, network, and engage in a series of thought-provoking panels, immersive workshops, and more.
Another panel, "What Comes Next?," will explore three career paths, future plans, and the evolving landscape of esports and gaming in the next 5-10 years.

CLASHTV NAMES GRAMMY-NOMINATED ARTIST FAT JOE AS THE COMPANY'S FIRST 'STREETBALL COMMISSIONER'

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ClashTV, the interactive livestreaming digital platform built to connect fans with the creators, content, and culture they are most passionate about, announced today that it has named Grammy-nominated artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe as its inaugural Streetball Commissioner.

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As ClashTV's Streetball Commissioner, Fat Joe will provide creative guidance to the livestreaming platform as it develops additional Streetball content, blending high-passion sports with music, entertainment, fashion and more.
Fat Joe will also have an ownership stake in ClashTV and join the organization's board of advisors.
In our mission to own the category of Streetball, there is no one more suited for this role than Fat Joe.
Launching the companies first original intellectual property and programming, "ClashTV Courtside," a SportsCenter-style weekly recap show, highlighting the best in on-platform streetball.

FAZE CLAN SIGNS STREAMER & CONTENT CREATOR YourRAGE AS NEWEST OFFICIAL MEMBER

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Monday, August 14, 2023

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, FaZe Holdings, Inc. (FaZe Clan), one of the most prominent and influential gaming organizations in the world, is proud to announce YourRAGE aka FaZe YourRAGE as their newest official member. YourRAGE, a Caribbean content creator with deep ties to his majority-black audience, boasts nearly 5M followers across all social media platforms and is well-known for his high energy and comical Twitch streams. YourRAGE announced his signing by hacking and taking over FaZe's main Twitter account to debut his announcement video.

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Meet The New Wave of Streaming Talent: FaZe YourRAGE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, FaZe Holdings, Inc. (FaZe Clan), one of the most prominent and influential gaming organizations in the world, is proud to announce YourRAGE aka FaZe YourRAGE as their newest official member.
The video also features FaZe Clan members FaZe Kaysan and FaZe Ronaldo.
"I never thought I'd join a gaming org, but I'm going all in with FaZe," said FaZe YourRAGE.
"YourRAGE is at the forefront of the streaming world and represents the next step forward for our organization," said Lee Trink, FaZe Clan CEO.

FAZE KAYSAN CONFIRMS MINORITY OWNERSHIP IN FAZE CLAN'S CALL OF DUTY TEAM: ATLANTA FAZE

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Friday, August 4, 2023

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FaZe Clan member FaZe Kaysan officially confirms he has signed on as a minority owner of FaZe Clan's Call of Duty team, Atlanta FaZe (ATL FaZe) based in Atlanta, Georgia. Kaysan's new role with ATL FaZe will see him working more closely with the organization and pro players to expand the Call of Duty scene. The news was officially confirmed via ATL FaZe's Twitter channel HERE.

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FaZe Clan member FaZe Kaysan officially confirms he has signed on as a minority owner of FaZe Clan's Call of Duty team, Atlanta FaZe (ATL FaZe) based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Kaysan's new role with ATL FaZe will see him working more closely with the organization and pro players to expand the Call of Duty scene.
During this past year, Kaysan has placed a high focus on streaming and playing gaming franchise favorites such as Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, NBA2K, and more.
Recently, Kaysan has hosted a variety of different streams with popular creators including the Kaysan Modern Warfare II Halloween Showdown combining the biggest names in streaming and gaming to span across 12 streams featuring Kai Cenat, xQc, Adin Ross, fanum, YourRage, Bruce, FaZe Swagg, FaZe Santana, FaZe Temper, prime, & FaZe ZooMaa.

adam&eveNYC and DDB NY Merge and Form New Creative Powerhouse

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

NEW YORK, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDB Worldwide has announced that its DDB New York office will merge with adam&eveNYC to form a dynamic new offering in North America that embodies the heart of a startup and the capabilities of a world-class full-service creative agency. The merged entity will be called adam&eveDDB marking a new era for DDB's offering in the Big Apple.

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NEW YORK, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DDB Worldwide has announced that its DDB New York office will merge with adam&eveNYC to form a dynamic new offering in North America that embodies the heart of a startup and the capabilities of a world-class full-service creative agency.
While at Digitas, Winterton has been leading a team of 600 across clients including Crocs, Delta, Goldman Sachs and many others.
Winterton has led accounts and built incredible teams for the likes of Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, and McDonald's, winning numerous creative and effectiveness awards.
As a full-service creative agency, the newly formed adam&eveDDB shop will consist of disciplines across brand and communications strategy, creative, integrated production, design, CX, and experiential.

Alpha And ClashTV Announce Summer 2023 NBA2K Esports Collaboration

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alpha Metaverse Technologies Inc. (CSE: ALPA) (OTC PINK: APETF) (FSE: 9HN0) (“Alpha” or the “Company”) a technology company that focuses on metaverse, gaming and generative AI, is thrilled to announce the use by Clash TV (“ClashTV”), an interactive live streaming platform built to connect fans with the content and culture they love, of its proprietary gaming platform to launch, power and manage ClashTV’s 2023 NBA2K tournaments. Alpha’s GaaS platform, "Mana", will aim to provide players with a seamless, low-latency gaming experience, providing the opportunity for ClashTV viewers’ an interactive experience engaging with their favorite players, teams, and content creators.

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ClashTV will license Alpha’s Mana platform to power interactive NBA2K fan-facing esports tournaments, launching in tandem with ClashTV’s 2023 live streaming season of iconic New York City Summer Streetball.
"I believe that the intersection of gaming, esports and sports live streaming represents the future of super fandom and cross-platform, cross-genre engagement,” said Jonathan Anastas, CEO of ClashTV.
"At ClashTV, we believe that our collaboration with Alpha will enable us to reward our liver streamers, our viewers and our creator partners with a better, more seamless product.
As a long-time member of the Alpha board, I’m more than confident that Mana will deliver on what ClashTV needs and much more.”

SuperDuperSecret Co. Raises Over $1m to Revolutionize Classic Games with 10-Player Battle Royale Twist

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Monday, May 1, 2023

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The company’s launch title, Royale Chess—a 10-player, battle royale chess game—marks the first of many games across their underlying meta-game platform, focusing on multiplayer, evergreen games.

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The company’s launch title, Royale Chess—a 10-player, battle royale chess game—marks the first of many games across their underlying meta-game platform, focusing on multiplayer, evergreen games.
The raise makes co-founder and CEO Jazzlyn O’Reilly the first Latina founder to raise over $1 million in venture capital funding in the gaming industry.
Royale Chess brings an innovative twist to one of the world’s oldest games.
10 players face off in a blazingly fast-paced showdown, making their moves in synchronous matches against each of the other 9 players.

Grilla Launches its Software Platform for Skill-Based Games

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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

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MIAMI, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grilla, a platform for skill-based games, announced it has launched out of beta with 20,000 registered users and $3 million in funding from Tusk Venture Partners. Grilla is an all-in-one platform where eligible users can easily create, manage and compete in any type of tournaments. With a built-in wallet and proprietary real-money gaming features, Grilla unlocks consumers' ability to wager in any type of video game or skill-based competition such as golf, backgammon, bowling, chess, basketball or anything else.

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Grilla is an all-in-one platform where eligible users can easily create, manage and compete in any type of tournaments.
In beta alone, users have hosted over 1,000 tournaments on the platform, and due to the demand from video games alone, Grilla is launching additional features this Spring for skill-based games played in-person.
"Grilla is the first company to build the critical infrastructure needed to host tournaments in real life and through video games."
Grilla will expand into additional markets and launch different tournaments for mobile games, tabletop games, VR/AR Games, and IRL games.

David Luce Joins XSET as Chief Content Officer

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

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BOSTON, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XSET, the world's fastest-growing gaming lifestyle organization, announced today that David Luce has joined their team as Chief Content Officer. Luce will create XSET's content studio, overseeing the development, production and distribution of premium video content for the organization's social platforms.

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BOSTON, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XSET , the world's fastest-growing gaming lifestyle organization, announced today that David Luce has joined their team as Chief Content Officer.
Luce will create XSET's content studio, overseeing the development, production and distribution of premium video content for the organization's social platforms.
"The next step in making XSET as successful as possible is building a content studio that encompasses all of our brand values and produces high quality, premium content," said David Luce.
"Make no mistake– XSET will become a content powerhouse for gaming, lifestyle and culture and David will be leading this charge as our Chief Content Officer.

unikrn™ Brings Video Games and Esports Betting Back

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Initially introduced eight years ago, unikrn is the most expansive video games and esports betting platform on the market offering a safe, secure and accessible way for players of legal betting age to supercharge their esports fandom.

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Initially introduced eight years ago, unikrn is the most expansive video games and esports betting platform on the market offering a safe, secure and accessible way for players of legal betting age to supercharge their esports fandom.
With an around-the-clock video game stream of exciting action featuring the worlds most popular video game titles, unikrn gives players more ways to bet while watching and playing their favorite games.
The launch of unikrn in both Brazil and Canada is the first step as we introduce a video games and esports betting platform that truly puts a new generation of players and their passions first.
Founded in 2014 and reintroduced by Entain in 2022, unikrn is the most expansive video games and esports platform on the market.