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Felix Rosenqvist races during the first race of the IndyCar Detroit Grand Prix in Detroit on Saturday. Photo: AP

Macau Grand Prix

Hong Kong E-Prix winner Rosenqvist hospitalised after horror crash

Rosenqvist, who was Hong Kong E-Prix champion in 2017, appears to suffer a throttle jam as he ploughs deep into a tire barrier.

13 Jun 2021 - 5:23PM

Included with your next apartment: VR pods and esports arenas

11 Jun 2020 - 8:00AMvideocam

League of Legends

Chinese esports superstar Uzi announces retirement at the age of 23

3 Jun 2020 - 10:00PM

Players of China’s most popular game are training Tencent’s AI

Honor of Kings is pitting players against an AI program named after the Monkey King in the name of science

6 May 2020 - 5:00AM

An anime character with pink glasses and a shamrock in his teeth is one of the more interesting representations of AI we’ve seen. (Picture: Tencent AI Lab/Honor of Kings)

League of Legends

Esports matches resume in China with masked players and casters

Tencent’s League the League of Legends Pro League kicked off its spring split with online-only games

12 Mar 2020 - 3:54PM

Coronavirus moves major Chinese esports tournament from stadium to virtual space

King Pro League, featuring Tencent’s Honor of Kings, will be held online

18 Feb 2020 - 6:31PM

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Coronavirus fears lead PUBG and Overwatch leagues to reschedule China games

Two China-based Overwatch League teams are looking to relocate to South Korea

15 Feb 2020 - 1:21PM

Major esports matches like those of the Overwatch League usually draw large crowds, which China is trying to avoid. (Picture: Blizzard)

League of Legends

China postpones its biggest esports tournament over Wuhan coronavirus

China reschedules its League of Legends Pro League games as the country shuts down to combat Wuhan coronavirus

16 Feb 2020 - 4:51PM

Esports gets its own 'FIFA' in Singapore with Tencent’s backing

The announcement comes after esports debuted as a medal sport in the 2019 SEA Games

17 Dec 2019 - 8:04PM

Razer CEO accused of threatening and publicly shaming employees

Former employees tell gaming news site Kotaku that Min-Liang Tan runs the company like a “dictatorship”

6 Dec 2019 - 6:02PM

After Razer’s IPO in 2017, its co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan became one of Singapore’s richest people. (Picture: Thomas Leung/SCMP)

TV shows and streaming video

How the founder of a high-flying game streaming site wound up in massive debt

Wang Sicong is the son of one of China’s richest men, but the collapse of Panda TV resulted in courts hitting him with spending limits

29 Nov 2019 - 9:00PM

How the founder of a high-flying game streaming site wound up in massive debt

They founded three hot tech companies, but now they’re on a country-wide blacklist

Founders of Ofo, LeEco and now Smartisan have to navigate China’s punishing debtor blacklist

12 Nov 2019 - 10:22AM

League of Legends

100 million watched China win second League of Legends championship

The championship games brought in more viewers outside China than last year, but fewer viewers than the semi-finals

12 Nov 2019 - 5:50AM

Chinese gamers think Blizzard supports them after vague apology

Blizzard president J. Allen Brack apologized at BlizzCon in the wake of the Blitzchung Hearthstone controversy, but it was vague enough for alternate interpretations

5 Nov 2019 - 12:51AM

Gamers For Freedom, which is part of Fight for the Future, organized a protest outside BlizzCon. (Picture: Fight for the Future)

The making of a mouse: Why Razer thinks gamers need an US$80 mouse

As it unveils the Razer Viper Ultimate, we visited the company in Singapore to discover how the original Viper was designed

22 Oct 2019 - 4:00PM

Compared to the previous Razer products, Viper returns to a more simplistic design. (Picture: Razer)

League of Legends

How smartphones are going to change League of Legends

League of Legends: Wild Rift is following the trail blazed by mobile MOBAs like Arena of Valor in China and Southeast Asia

18 Oct 2019 - 11:23PM

US gamers call for a boycott, but Blizzard has a huge fanbase in China

2 Jun 2023 - 3:08PM

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Hong Kong protests lead to cancellation of Street Fighter V esports tournament

Capcom Pro Tour cancels Hong Kong leg as esports industry takes a hit from unrest that has roiled the city

20 Sep 2019 - 9:10AM

Capcom Pro Tour is a series of international fighting game tournaments sponsored by Capcom, which culminates in the annual Capcom Cup in San Francisco. (Picture: Capcom)

TV shows and streaming video

Esports clubs are teaming up with Twitch-like streaming sites to enter China

TSM said it will develop a base in China by 2020 while Team Liquid signed a deal with Huya

20 Sep 2019 - 9:08AM

Trash talking with NBA 2K Golden State Gaming star Jin Choe

The Korean-American star says verbally assaulting your opponent is part of the game, much like real basketball

25 May 2019 - 9:38AM

Rise and fall of China’s Twitch a cautionary tale for investors

After Panda TV’s fall, game streaming in China is now dominated by internet giant Tencent, which also controls many other aspects of the country’s video games industry.

9 Apr 2019 - 7:00AM

Panda TV’s demise makes way for gaming giant Tencent to dominate live streaming too

Gamer made almost US$200,000 last year. He’s 14

Meet Griffin Spikoski, the new definition of a student ‘athlete’.

3 Apr 2019 - 3:41PM

Griffin Spikoski spends as much as 18 hours a day glued to his computer screen. His income last year was nearly US$200,000. Photo: YouTube

China might be one of the best countries for women in esports

It turns out that recent Chinese victories in esports tournaments has inspired fans to take on the sports themselves, in a country where 30% of esports fans are women -- far higher than the US, where just 17% of esports fans are women. Female players are so common in China that there might be a different barrier: Streaming is so lucrative that some talented players are shunning esports teams to strike it out on their own. "You earn much more and there’s less pressure," says former pro Siqi "Nara" Chen.

20 Sep 2019 - 9:00AM

Game enough for new stuff? Elderly connect with young through e-sports

Senior Citizen Home Safety Association helps members take up unlikely hobby, which has given them a new take on life and keeps their minds active.

5 Jan 2019 - 11:03AM

China’s ten biggest esports moments of 2018

2018 was also a landmark year for esports in China, with teams from the country scoring notable victories in global competitions. But it was a performance on the completely opposite scale that gripped me: Shanghai Dragons going 0-40, completing a dismal season without a single win.

20 Sep 2019 - 8:49AMvideocam

China’s ten biggest esports moments of 2018

Arena of Valor is a decent game on Nintendo Switch but better on mobile

Tencent’s mobile esports title is the first MOBA on Nintendo Switch

20 Sep 2019 - 8:46AMvideocam

Arena of Valor is a decent game on Nintendo Switch but better on mobile

League of Legends

Could China’s LPL become Nike’s first sponsored esports league?

Move comes after Chinese star Uzi became the first esports athlete featured in a Nike ad

20 Sep 2019 - 8:46AM

Global outrage forces game maker to reverse plans to censor Rainbow Six Siege for China

Ubisoft originally censored the game for China, but changed their mind after a backlash

20 Sep 2019 - 8:46AM

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