MOONTON Games, Chess.com, and SNK will bring their iconic titles to the inaugural Esports Nations Cup as its newest official publishers.
The Esports World Cup Federation announced that Chess.com MOONTON Games, publisher of MLBB, and SNK, publisher of FATAL FURY, are joining the Esports Nations Cup as Official Publishers. They join several video game companies that have been declared as "Founding Publishers." As official publishers, they will have a hand in various aspects of the tournament, such as its format.
Esports Nations Cup gains three official publishers
MOONTON Games, Chess.com, and SNK will be official game publishers for the inaugural Esports Nations Cup. These companies are bringing with them their iconic competitive titles - namely Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Chess, and Fatal Fury - to the ENC.
These three new official publishers join the already impressive roster of founding publishers with which the ENC has already partnered. These are EA, Krafton, Tencent, and Ubisoft. As a collective, these founding publishers have already brought their respective titles to the Esports World Cup. EA Sports FC, PUBG: Battlegrounds, PUBG Mobile, Honor of Kings, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege X were all present in the EWC thanks to these publishers.
According to a press release sent by the EWCF to esports.gg, these official publishers will "co-design qualification paths and competition formats for their respective titles — ensuring integrity, competitive relevance, and a consistent global structure."
“By partnering closely with publishers, we can make the Esports Nations Cup truly player-centric, and give players the opportunity to represent their country in the games that define their careers,” said Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup Foundation. “With the seven partners announced so far as close collaborators, we can activate players worldwide and deliver a Nations Cup that feels earned for players and real for fans, and build a stage that national teams can aspire to for years to come.”
The first-ever Esports Nations Cup is scheduled for November 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is intended to be held every two years, to various host countries around the world.
