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• ESPN launches eSports vertical, which is very funny

  Oh now that there’s money in it it’s a real sport, huh?

• Halo 5 World Championship Tour making a stop at the X Games

  Halo 5 will be featured as part of this year’s X Games.

• League of Legends World Championships to be broadcast on ESPN

  League of Legends might not be a “real sport” according to certain TV executives, but it sure is airing on ESPN this weekend.

• ESPN boss says eSports are not "real sports"

  ESPN President John Skipper doesn’t have much time for video games, apparently. Has anybody told him about the money?

• Dota 2 The International will be presented live on EPSN3

  Valve has announced coverage of The International Dota 2 Championships will be presented on EPSN3.

• Call of Duty will be an event at the ESPN's X Games this year

  ESPN’s extreme sports-oriented Olympics, the X Games, will feature a Call of Duty Ghosts tournament in Austin this year. The Games will go on June 6-8, and eight Call of Duty teams will be invited — the top 3 from the Call of Duty world championship in LA last month and the top 5 in […]

• Xbox One getting ESPN, NFL - Xbox 360 gets NFL Fantasy Football today

  Microsoft is partnering with the sports industry to deliver content across Xbox, Surface and Windows devices by deals with the NFL, Sideline App, Fantasy Football and a renewed contract with ESPN.

• More partners announced for XBL, support for 12 additional languages

  Yusuf Mehdi, marketing head of Xbox, took to the stage during MS’s E3 press conference to say the console had 200 million new movies, videos and TV shows added last year.

• Tuesday Shorts - Just Dance 3, fringe financials, Twittah

  Next week is going to be epic. This week? Yeah, not so much.

• Thursday Shorts II: ESPN, Mobage, League of Legends, EVE, Idea Factory

  Time for more shorts, and the list is rather, er um, short this afternoon.

• 2K Sports enters into NBA 2K11 sponsorship agreement with ESPN

  2K and ESPN have entered into an agreement in which the game publisher will be the official sponsor of ESPN’s live 2011 NBA coverage in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

• Xbox Live Fall Update Preview Program now live

  A new UI? Meh. ESPN? No thanks. Zune Music? Not interested. Wait, you say our Avatars have longer legs now? Is this… is this what the future feels like?

• ESPN coming to Xbox Live for Gold Members

  Microsoft has just announced that ESPN is coming to Xbox Live, free for Gold Members.

• Report - ESPN in talks to stream sports to 360

  The NYT’s reporting that Microsoft and Disney are in talks to being streamed ESPN sports event to Live.

• Xbox Live to get Major League Baseball

  ESPN and Major League Baseball Advanced Media have announced that US Xbox Live customers will be able to view Major League Baseball until 2013. “This agreement further solidifies the great relationship we have with Major League Baseball and together with our television deal, allows us to bring the game of baseball to more fans than […]