A gaming company has opened a new Remote Broadcast Centre in Dublin, creating 120 jobs.
€18.5 million has been invested by Riot Games at the former Wright Venue nightclub in Swords in what will be the first of the company's three RBCs around the world.
It will serve as a central broadcasting hub for both regional and global live esports productions.
Riot Games says Project Stryker will "increase capacity for its esports content and events while also lowering operational costs, and ensure top-tier quality and consistency across all esports productions, delivering a best-in-class viewing experience to 145 million fans around the world"
The 6,000-plus square metre facility is equipped with six control rooms to enable it to broadcast six live events at an event scale each similar to the Super Bowl simultaneously across multiple time zones. Content is edited in real-time, and each broadcast is also translated into the local language, depending on the country to which it is being broadcast.
The company already employs 165 people in Dublin city centre.
It's estimated the esports industry will hit almost €1.7 billion in 2022.
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