MAY 15, 2023 — Inspired Entertainment, Inc. (“Inspired” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: INSE) is pleased to introduce its latest Virtual Sports product, Re-Play eSports™ featuring Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (“CS:GO”) in partnership with GRID, a game data platform specialized in providing in-game data solutions for the eSports and games industry.
eSports is an innovative sport that has a consistently growing audience base. Inspired believes the fusion of Virtual Sports and eSports has the potential to bring new players to their customers as well as providing existing players a new, exciting gaming experience.
Re-Play eSports™ will showcase footage taken exclusively from the CS:GO’s global tournament — Champion of Champions Tour that include professional, international teams from across the globe and will be offered via Inspired’s Virtuals sportsbook and VPP platforms to new and existing customers. The official in-game data and video feeds to power Re-Play eSports™ will be provided by GRID.
CS:GO is a well-known and popular tactical multiplayer first-person shooter video game. In Re-Play eSports™, two teams go head-to-head to battle it out. Bets will be offered on a variety of possible outcomes including, which team will win, which team will get the first kill and total number of survivors.