Industry Figures
 | Electronic Arts EA are one of the biggest game producers in the world, they buy out development houses and then add these houses products to the EA name, as a result they have a monopoly of different styles of games they produce. These include very casual games like The Sims. But they also have products that can be considered eSports titles such as Battlefield 3 $4.2BN £2.6BN |
 | VALVE Valve responsible for the way that PC Gaming has progressed in the last 5 years, as they have really been the spearhead of the downloadable content revolution with their service, Stream. Not only that but they are responsible for developing game engines that many very sucsesful esports titles run on, namely the Source engine, that runs Counterstrike and Team Fortress., Two very large eSports titles. This company is private therefore no stock financial information is readil available. A article from the New York times website has a source from Wedbush Securities estimating: $2.5BN estimated £1.6BN estimated |
 | Activision Blizzard Responsible for the worlds most popular game, namely world of warcraft, Activision Blizzard or Blizzard Activision, is one of the larges gaming companies about. they have a seemingly endless stream of revenue from their warcraft franchise. they are also responsible in a huge degree for one of the biggest eSports games around at the moment, Starcraft 2.
$10.5BN £6.5BN |
 | Riot Games Riot games make league of legends, a game where the players have the opportunity to buy new content all the time. Leage of legends is THE biggest esports game on the market currently. Unfortunately Riot are a private firm and as a result, they do not release their equity figures but they are one of the biggest contenders in the market today. |
