Introduction to eSports

[iPickle]

World's First Video-Game Stadium, Coming to Macau's Neighborhood:

Quote:The arena will be the centerpiece of a $2.8 billion gaming theme park. A Hong Kong-based developer, Lai Fung Group (1125:HK), has just announced plans to build the video-game complex, which would be the first of its kind and mark a sort of coming of age for “e-sports.”

The project is one of the fanciful proposals that has money pouring into Hengqin Island, which sits in the Pearl River Delta, adjacent to Macau’s booming casino wonderland and its 30 million annual visitors. For the last five years or so, China has been planning to develop Hengqin as a sort of Macau-spillover zone connected by bridge to both the gambling hub and Hong Kong. The idea is beginning to bear fruit. Chinese news reports this week pegged the overall value of projects being recommended by the local government at about $22 billion.



full article:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-25/hengqin-near-macau-to-host-the-worlds-first-video-game-stadium