{"id":1948,"date":"2022-04-17T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/weekly-news-218-tencent-retreat-boring-agencies-playvs-exposed-epic-2b-flatline-verstappen-esports-overwatch-cash-grab-wearable-speaker-ultimate-gamer-bed\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:54:57","slug":"weekly-news-218-tencent-retreat-boring-agencies-playvs-exposed-epic-2b-flatline-verstappen-esports-overwatch-cash-grab-wearable-speaker-ultimate-gamer-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/accessories\/weekly-news-218-tencent-retreat-boring-agencies-playvs-exposed-epic-2b-flatline-verstappen-esports-overwatch-cash-grab-wearable-speaker-ultimate-gamer-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly News #218: Tencent Retreat, Boring Agencies, PlayVS Exposed, Epic $2B Flatline, Verstappen Esports, Overwatch Cash Grab, Wearable Speaker, Ultimate Gamer Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest weekly news and podcast after-show (sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/business.yougov.com\/sectors\/gaming-esports\/boe\">YouGov<\/a>), we discuss Tencent shutting down their Penguin streaming platform, Loaded selling for $20 million to private equity, teachers alleging PlayVS strong-armed high school esports programs, Epic Games raising $2 billion in a flat round, Max Verstappen unveiling his new esports racing team, the <em>Overwatch<\/em> community complaining about lazy skin re-colors, Panasonic creating speakers to wear around your neck, Bauhutte launching the ultimate gaming bed, and so much more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessofesports.com\/2022\/04\/17\/weekly-news-218-tencent-retreat-boring-agencies-playvs-exposed-epic-2b-flatline-verstappen-esports-overwatch-cash-grab-wearable-speaker-ultimate-gamer-bed\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly News #218: Tencent Retreat, Boring Agencies, PlayVS Exposed, Epic $2B Flatline, Verstappen Esports, Overwatch Cash Grab, Wearable Speaker, Ultimate Gamer Bed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}