PlayStation has acquired Repeat.gg, an esports tournament website, to additional develop its international esports competitions.
Sony’s deal with esports continues after its 2021 funding in turning into the co-owner of EVO, the premier preventing recreation tournament on this planet. The firm additionally hosts PlayStation Tournaments, that includes over 30 video games and going down in additional than 70 nations all through the world.
“At PlayStation, our imaginative and prescient for esports has all the time been about breaking down boundaries for avid gamers to compete in any respect ranges,” Steven Roberts, vice chairman of world aggressive gaming at Sony Interactive Entertainment, instructed GamesIndustry.biz. “Together with the proficient Repeat.gg group, we’re excited to discover extra methods for gamers to have interaction in aggressive gaming and develop the breadth of our esports choices. This is simply the beginning of our journey and we stay up for sharing extra updates with our group sooner or later.”
In 2021, 50,000 gamers gained greater than $5 million in prizes all through 8,000 competitions, in response to Video gamesIndustry.
“Repeat.gg was designed to allow new tournament codecs which might be straightforward to enter and scalable to tens of millions of gamers,” mentioned Repeat.gg CEO Aaron Fletcher. “We’re thrilled to affix the PlayStation group and work collectively to boost the number of tournament experiences avid gamers can take pleasure in, no matter their talent degree.”
Repeat says it’s going to proceed to host video games exterior of the PlayStation platform, together with titles on cellular, PC, and different consoles as effectively.
“This marks probably the most important milestone in Repeat’s historical past as we proceed to reimagine esports and tournaments,” Repeat mentioned. “We have been speaking with SIE for a while now as we wished to make sure that our imaginative and prescient and targets aligned. At Repeat, we have now all the time centered on “Esports for Everyone.” We need to deliver the joys and rush of competitors to each gamer, irrespective of your talent degree.”