Dundee Culture Esports: Dundee Culture To Launch New Hub For Esports In Dundee
The new platform comes as the city prepares to be home to a brand new 4,000 capacity Esports arena which will be situated on Dundee’s waterfront.
Dundee Culture is to launch a new hub dedicated to promoting Esports and gaming as the city prepares to enter it’s next big industry.
Dundee Culture Esports is a new spin-off social media brand which has been set up on Twitter and will feature on Dundee Culture’s new website which will be online from 2022.
The focus of Dundee Culture Esports is to promote news and events relating to Esports in the city as well as being a hub for video game-related content. It will also be a space for reporting live Esports event immediately. It will be used to report Esports events in Dundee post-SEL4 and will be the home to the Dundee Culture Studios’ produced podcast, Gaming Capital, due to release in 2022.
With SEL4 coming to a close later today, the first national Esports event hosted in the city, it has helped become a springboard for what Dundee could be like in the future in the Esports industry.
The next big industry
Esports has been touted as the next big industry in Dundee. With the city’s history of video game development, it was only a matter of time until the idea of Esports would come along.
SEL4 has been the springboard to that, this was the first major Esports event held in Dundee and it is the largest event of it’s kind in Scotland
Last year, plans were revealed to build a 4,000 capacity Esports arena in the heart of Dundee’s £1 billion waterfront regeneration and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive.
The plans were introduced by Northern Lights Arena Europe (NLAE) who aim to open the arena by 2024. Earlier this year, Dundee City Council reached an agreement with NLAE to develop the arena on the site next to Slessor Gardens.
The hope for this new arena is that it makes Dundee ‘the streaming capital of the world’. NLAE have been in talks with Amazon Web Services, who own the streaming platform Twitch who aim to get involved in helping the arena be the best streaming venue in the world.
What it’s all about?
As briefly mentioned, Dundee Culture Esports will be a hub to Esports and gaming have it’s home on Dundee Culture’s new website which is launching in early 2022 and also Twitter as well.
On Twitter, the Dundee Culture Esports page will post content, news and updates on the Esports scene in the city.
Dundee Culture’s website, which will be re-launched next year, will be home to the Dundee Culture Esports brand and will link to Twitter.
‘Esports will change Dundee as we know it’
“I wanted to create this brand because Dundee will soon enter a new industry which could change the city as we know it. SEL4 has been a great success in propelling Dundee into the Esports scene. When the announcement came earlier this year that the tournament was to be hosted in Dundee, it was a great sign for things to come.
This partnership between Esports Scotland and Dundee Culture has been fantastic and getting involved in this new industry which is coming to Dundee is something I am excited to be involved in.
Dundee Culture’s SEL4 coverage is on the cusp of 100,000 impressions. With the news of the Esports arena to the amazing finals that have been held, it is great that the idea of featuring this on Dundee Culture has been a success.”
