St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® is powering up a new videogame charity program with help from some of the top streaming gamers, including Johnathan Wendel (Fatal1ty), “Ellohime,” “CohhCarnage,” Danielle Mackey (Panser), actress Zelda Williams, a team from Twitch, the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, and GameStop, the world’s largest videogame retailer and official Play Live gaming sponsor. Several of the gamers recently visited the hospital, bringing their passion for games, along with their controller skills, to help St. Jude prepare to launch a summer gaming season that will excite and engage players and raise funds to “zerg” (defeat) childhood cancer. St. Jude Play Live is a chance for gamers to use their skills at overcoming virtual enemies and obstacles to raise money so that kids can continue to win very real battles with cancer and other deadly diseases, and to ensure that no...
- 6/8/2014
- by admin
- Hollywoodnews.com
By Matt Hawkins
With the recently wrapped up Evo Championship Series, along with how League of Legend players are now considered athletes in the eyes of the Us government, awareness of professional gamers are quite high these days.
And whenever eSports makes headlines, the same basic question is always asked: how much money do they make? Thanks to e-Sports Earnings (http://www.esportsearnings.com/players), now we know. They recently ranked the top 100 players, based upon their overall earnings.
Business Insider decided to profile the top 15 and here's a few observations one is able to cull from both ends:
- Both the overall earnings and highest paying game are listed by e-Sports Earnings. In the cast of the latter, Dota 2 is the most popular among the top 15. It appears 5 times among the top fifteen earners, and accounts for 99% of the total earnings for their respective players.
- As one might expect,...
With the recently wrapped up Evo Championship Series, along with how League of Legend players are now considered athletes in the eyes of the Us government, awareness of professional gamers are quite high these days.
And whenever eSports makes headlines, the same basic question is always asked: how much money do they make? Thanks to e-Sports Earnings (http://www.esportsearnings.com/players), now we know. They recently ranked the top 100 players, based upon their overall earnings.
Business Insider decided to profile the top 15 and here's a few observations one is able to cull from both ends:
- Both the overall earnings and highest paying game are listed by e-Sports Earnings. In the cast of the latter, Dota 2 is the most popular among the top 15. It appears 5 times among the top fifteen earners, and accounts for 99% of the total earnings for their respective players.
- As one might expect,...
- 7/17/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
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