Super Evil Megacorp’s Kristian Segerstrale expects mobile titles to draw much larger audiences than League of Legends in the future
“Somebody is going to create an eSports experience on touchscreen that is in the order of five times bigger than Counter-Strike or League of Legends is today.”
Kristian Segerstrale, as you may have guessed, works for a company trying to do exactly that: Super Evil Megacorp, which has just struck a deal with eSports firm ESL to run a tournament based on its Vainglory mobile game.
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Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago.
“Somebody is going to create an eSports experience on touchscreen that is in the order of five times bigger than Counter-Strike or League of Legends is today.”
Kristian Segerstrale, as you may have guessed, works for a company trying to do exactly that: Super Evil Megacorp, which has just struck a deal with eSports firm ESL to run a tournament based on its Vainglory mobile game.
Related: Kristian Segerstrale talks Supercell, free-to-play and the future of gaming
Related: Vainglory: the MOBA game that took Apple's iPhone 6 launch by storm
Related: How video gaming turned into the world's newest spectator sport
Related: Minecraft YouTube videos were watched 3.9bn times in March
Related: Call of Duty World Championship 2015: Denial claims victory in thrilling finale
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago.