Esports

UKIE invited Stuart (our CEO) to speak at their event Making Games for Esports.  

Supporting our APAC based customer base has been difficult due to timezones and we've never expanded the business in that area for that reason. Today we're pleased to announce our latest expansion in the beautiful city of Christchurch, New Zealand. This will be our first antipodean permanent base for Game Tech and Esport Tech supporting NZ, Australia, China and the rest of As ...

Academia and Industry have created a forum and body to help further Esports education, practise and and learning.

This weekend we're going to get people talking and playing games.  Two things we're passionate about here at Code Wizards. Here's what we want to do this weekend.. Find one hour with friends or family on 20th-21st June Pick the perfect online game Talk safely together in game, on social media or on the phone Why? Over 30% of the population and nearly 51% of 16-24 ye ...

We wanted to better understand this weekend's Play and Talk initiative so I sat down (virtually of course!) with George Osborn of UKIE to get his questions answered.  Why play and talk?  Why is the act of playing together useful? There are lots of great reasons to play and talk, but this week the best reason to do so is to help you, or friends or family, to feel less lonely. ...

Esports seems to have just about burst into everybody's lives recently but there's a lot of misunderstandings about what it is and what it isn't.

To help that here's a 2-minute guide to 10 things you probably didn't know about esports.

Esports, an exploding movement that features competitive video game play, is gaining a greater—and more respected—foothold at the university level. The phenomenon is a growing industry with huge spectatorship numbers, and with expectations that the global esports economy will soon reach nearly £900 million, universities and brands alike are figuring out how to access this heretofore unfamiliar talent pool.

We work a lot in esports and people outside of games always ask: what are esports?  Hopefully we'll do it justice here.

A simple definition is the competitive playing and viewing of videogames!