Riot Games just celebrated their 10th year of League of Legends. To celebrate they threw a special event. They announced Mobile versions of Team Fight Tactics and League of Legends, Project L which is a fighting game, Project A which is a tactical shooter, Legends of Runeterra which is a card game, and an Anime. Riot Games is showing us they want to be much more than just League of Legends 💯

Call of Duty Mobile has reached 100 million downloads on Google Play and IOS within its first week of launching globally. Also NRG has added Hecz as their new Co-CEO 🎮

Luxury Retail company Luis Vuitton is partnering with League of Legends to make digital items to wear in game. This is a low risk experiment that can open up new revenue streams for both companies. Video Games are starting to become social platform, where people want to express themselves and this phenomenon will be a great opportunity for brands to participate in 👌🏻

Call of Duty is launching the inaugural season of its Geolocated league in 2020. They now have 12 teams in location ranging from Los Angeles to Paris participating who had to pay at least $25 million to get into the league 💯

Ninja who is the biggest gaming personality with 14.7 million twitch followers before he moved over to Mixer, has partnered with Adidas. More details should be announced soon but this is major news for the gaming industry going forward.

100 Thieves just raised $35 million in their Series B funding round. The round was led by Artist Capital and also included Group Arnault which is the investing arm of Louis Vuitton. Plenty of good things to come with 100 Thieves already operating on all cylinders 👌🏻

Above the Storm Ep.6: On this episode we talk about YouTube’s biggest star, and TwitchTV’s biggest star teaming up for a esports tournament. And we also talk about Googles new gaming streaming service called Stadia

Courage joins 100 Thieves and partners with Nadeshot to make a podcast sponsored by the Cashapp. Call of duty also dropped its first trailer of Modern Warfare, coming October 25th 💯

Ep. 4 of Above the storm where we talk about the interaction of gaming and business. In today’s episode we cover 100 Thieves continued merchandise success and Optic Gaming’s destiny of being sold. Twitter/IG: RicksonTV

Above The Storm Ep.3, Fortnite and Marshmello partnered up to host a one of kind in game concert. Also we will be talking about the future of gaming and how it’s becoming a social platform. Twitter/Instagram: RicksonTV

Above The Storm Ep.2: In this episode I talk about Ninja bringing in $10 million in 2018, how gamers will start their own companies with the help of their personal brands, and Fortnite bringing in $3 billion in profit.