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Jason Wilson

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Esports Editor at Sports Business Journal

Newsletters, Sports Business Journal ([email protected]) @sbj Managing editor/copy editor/journalist since 1998

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Articles

  • 2021’s Forza Horizon 5 becomes an April best-seller thanks to a new platform, the PlayStation 5

    1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Jason Wilson

    MLB: The Show 25 finished as the No. 3 best-selling game of April following its debut at No. 2 in March. But it wasn’t the biggest story in sports games last month. Forza Horizon 5, Microsoft Game Studios’ and Playground Games’ racer that debuted in 2021, showed new life and rose to the No. 2 best-selling game of April.

  • Baseball Hall of Fame arrives in MLB Rivals

    1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Jason Wilson

    MLB Rivals (PC and mobile) is getting a talent injection following its linkup with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum this week. Publisher Com2Us (the folks who run Out of the Park Baseball’s studio) is adding 17 retired players and a couple of notable voices in Dodgers and Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Joe Davis and color commentator Orel Hershiser.

  • Dunk Dynasty launches atop App Store in U.S.

    1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Jason Wilson

    NetEase Games’ Dunk Dynasty launched last week and has already garnered more than 1 million players for its streetball hoops game that carries licenses from the NBA and NBPA.

  • Riot Games signs cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase as League of Legends, Valorant esports sponsor

    3 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Jason Wilson

    Riot Games’ latest multiyear deal is with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, which will become a sponsor of League of Legends and Valorant events and the exclusive crypto exchange and official blockchain sponsor for the publisher’s competitive gaming business. CAA helped coordinate the deal, which begins for Valorant esports with the VCT Masters Toronto on June 7 and for League of Legends esports with the MSI 2025 from June 27-July 12.

  • Blast opens U.S. HQ in New York City, its first office in the United States

    3 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Jason Wilson

    Blast is expanding its North American presence with its first-ever U.S. office in NYC. This joins offices in Copenhagen, London and Berlin for the for the nine-year-old gaming event organizer, with another outpost coming in Mumbai. The new office will serve as the HQ for Blast’s U.S. operations, with Chief Business Officer Leo Matlock leaving Copenhagen to lead expansion stateside.

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