NBA 2K16 Meets...eSports? - SportsBlog.com (blog)
With the NBA 2K series, it's pretty much become a given over the past couple of years what we'll get -- awful servers, zig-zag cheese ( and not the good type of zig zags ) a heavy focus on microtransactions and the game modes that live off them,... As part of their weekly Twitch stream to discuss what's going on in the 2K world, For those not familiar with eSports, and I'll admit to being one of those people when 2015 started, it's defined as "organized multiplayer video game competitions,... Those of you who follow sports media closely might remember that ESPN, who is trying to get into the eSports game, aired a. and though they flopped in the views department, getting just 96,000 people to watch while Mets-Yankees over on ESPN... In today's social media world, such a feat is called generating buzz, and though more people spent that Sunday night watching more 'traditional' sports like baseball, the NBA playoffs, and MLS, the Twitter world was still very active in talking... While the emergence of eSports has resulted in a cringe-worthy interview with 'YouTube star PewDiePie for ESPN The Magazine ' that was done mostly to get people who may not normally give a sports network a chance to, well, give it a chance (you... Source: jakeelman.sportsblog.com
