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 tacti

Call of Duty Mobile reaches 100 Million downloads and NRG adds new Co-CEO 🎮

Oct 10th, 2019 2m 29s

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 🎮

Louis Vuitton will be collaborating with League of Legends to design digital items 💯

Oct 1st, 2019 5m 45s

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 plat

Call of Duty now has 12 teams ready for its new franchised league launching in 2020 👌🏻

Sep 16th, 2019 5m 56s

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 partners with Adidas 💯

Aug 28th, 2019 1m 39s

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 raises $35 million at a $160 million Valuation 💯

Jul 18th, 2019 2m 56s

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 operati

Pewdiepie and Ninja Team up for Fortnite Friday and New Stadia announcements

Jun 7th, 2019 2m 12s

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 and Nadeshot team up, and the New Call of Duty Announcement 👌🏻

May 31st, 2019 2m 53s

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 💯

100 Thieves Spring Drop sells out under 5 minutes and Optic being sold

May 23rd, 2019 6m 32s

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

Marshmello Hosted a live concert in Fortnite and how gaming is becoming a social platform

Feb 9th, 2019 6m 20s

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

Ninja Makes $10 million in 2018 and Fortnite brings in $3 billion in profit

Jan 7th, 2019 11m 57s

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.

Drake invest in 100 Thieves and Fortnite raises $1.5 billion in investments

Nov 1st, 2018 9m 3s

Above The Storm: 100 Thieves raised capital in its series A round from the likes of Drake, Scooter Braun, Sequoia Capital, Mark Benioff and more. Fortnite has raised $1.25 billion valuing Epic at $15 billion.