

The event will take place March 17-31 of next year, more than nine months after Paris, the final Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major. PGL will host the first-ever Counter-Strike 2 major, with the PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen marking the game’s debut at a global championship in 2024. “There’s no possible way this show can happen,” one source told IGN. The Entertainment Software Association has yet to address the story or Ubisoft backing out of the event just weeks after publicly announcing its involvement in E3. To learn more about Misfits’ business strategy and how the company helps its creators build things like Pixel Playground, The Streamer Awards and more, check out our Q&A with Spoont later this week on .Į3’s big return could be in jeopardy, according to a report from IGN, with Sega and Tencent reportedly joining Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and Ubisoft in backing out of participating in what was once the most-important gaming event of the year.

Misfits founder and CEO Ben Spoont said the IP-focused approach helps give his organization an edge in the marketplace and provide net-new revenue streams by just letting creators do what they do best. The move is part of the company’s strategy to empower its esports and gaming operations through helping creators develop original intellectual property. Misfits’ journey from esports organization to something morecontinued this week with the announcement of Pixel Playground, a Roblox game studio co-founded by two recent additions to Misfits: co-owners and Misfits creative directors Kreekcraft, the world’s largest Roblox creator, and variety content creator Karl Jacobs.
