7 Questions With Blizzard's CEO as the Overwatch League Finals Get Underway

Thousands of people will fill Brooklyn's Barclays Center on July 27 and July 28, but not for basketball, not for hockey and not for a concert. They'll be there for the Grand Finals of the Overwatch League, an e-sports league video game developer Blizzard Entertainment runs with its popular team-based, first-person shooter, Overwatch. The sold-out finals will mark an end to the Overwatch League's first season, with teams from Philadelphia and London (city-based teams are a league hallmark) set to compete for $1.4 million in prizes. Matches will be broadcast live on ESPN and Disney XD, marking the first time e-sports have been broadcast live on ESPN's main channel in primetime, Blizzard says. Ahead of the big event, TIME sat down with Blizzard Entertainment President and CEO Michael Morhaime to talk about the tournament, Overwatch, and the gaming industry more broadly.