It's so big, in fact, UCI opened their first sports arena Friday night for video games ... up tonight to test out the new facility for eSports. They might appear to be wasting time, but these ...

UC Irvine announced the launch of an official e-sports initiative with the backing of Riot Games and iBuyPower. At the program's center is a 3,500-square-foot facility with a stage for ...

School officials joined students and gaming celebrities for a grand opening of UCI’s new eSports Arena, the first of its kind in a public university. The arena, a 3,500-square-foot indoor center ...

Along with the arena is UC Irvine's first recognized esports team in League of Legends, which Deppe said includes 10 players with $5,600 scholarships, a coaching staff and analysts. It's not all ...

University of California-Irvine next week opens the first eSports arena run by a public university. The Sept. 23 event includes top-ranked players recruited for UCI’s League of Legends team. League of ...

The new 3,500-square-foot arena, expected to open this fall, will be equipped by iBuyPower, a sponsor of UCI eSports, with 80 of its gaming PCs, loaded with popular video game titles.

At 3,500 square feet, the UCI E-Sports Arena isn't particularly large, with 80 computers filling the tightly packed stations. But Jesse Wang, president of The Association of Gamers (TAG ...

UCI is crashing into the exploding market of online video gaming, or e-sports, having just opened a 3,500-square-foot arena and now offering 10 partial scholarships for two teams. “There are ...

When ESPN broadcasted a collegiate esports match last spring, my Twitter timeline—heavily populated by fans of “traditional” sports like baseball and football—erupted with a mix of snarky ...

With UCI's esports arena, Riot seeks to create a better version of the PC cafes, which hold immense popularity in other parts of the world. In Korea, for example, PC Bangs number in the thousands ...

University of California-Irvine this week will open the first eSports arena run by a public university. The Sept. 23 launch event includes top-ranked players recruited for UCI’s League of Legends team ...