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The Week in Esports
03/30/23: Misfits launches Roblox game studio; E3 reportedly in jeopardy; Microsoft clears acquisition hurdle in U.K.
- E3’s big return could be in jeopardy
- PGL will host the first-ever Counter-Strike 2 major
- The TEKKEN World Tour has named its nine Master events for the year
- A 10-minute stream of the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom took the gaming world by storm
- NRG Esports has partnered with DXRacer as its gaming chair sponsor
- Esports organization Kansas City Pioneers has partnered with its city’s MLB team
- Monumental Sports and Entertainment has opened the doors of District E
- Tournament organizer BLAST and the Fortnite Championship Series have renewed a deal
- Content creator-founded esports org Disguised is adding a VALORANT Game Changers team
- FaZe Clan has received a deficiency notice from the Nasdaq
- Evil Geniuses is the latest esports organization to be hit with layoffs
- Former Cloud9 VALORANT in-game leader Anthony "vanity" Malaspina has a new home
- Ubisoft’s in-house AI scripting tool, Ghostwriter, has received mixed reactions
- Australia is taking a hardline approach to in-game gambling simulations
- The ongoing spat between Microsoft and Sony over Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard
- Meanwhile, Microsoft got another big win in its acquisition battle