Multiplay opens new UK eSports studio

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 17/10/2016

eSports and gaming event host Multiplay has opened a brand new UK eSports studio in Basingstoke.
The company – which is responsible for the UK Masters league and Insomnia gaming festivals – showed off the studio in a live broadcast for the League of Legends UK Masters this evening.

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The UK Masters Twitter account teased the following earlier today:

We’ve got something exciting tonight for the #UKMasters… pic.twitter.com/7WuKMATZ7u

— UKMasters (@UKMasters) October 17, 2016

It then announced the studio, along with what’s possibly the most boyband-esque picture of UK caster duo Sona (left) and Excoundrel (right) we’ve ever seen.

Join @excoundrel & @Sonathecaster in the first broadcast from our BRAND NEW @Multiplay Studio! https://t.co/Rt09Tec38O pic.twitter.com/CtLBR7m0lK

— UKMasters (@UKMasters) October 17, 2016

Other Multiplay staff also tweeted about the studio:

The brilliant @Sonathecaster & @excoundrel in the beautiful @MultiplayEsport @UKMasters Studio #UKMasters pic.twitter.com/HLoAHJ1all

— James Williams (@jjwilliams85) 17 October 2016

Our new studio is sickkk #ukmasters #lolesports @MultiplayEsport @UKMasters loving it @Sonathecaster @excoundrel pic.twitter.com/LB2bq0pnjo

— Kharne (@KharneUK) 17 October 2016

We’ve reached out to Multiplay for specific details of the studio, but from the stream and images posted it’s a small, well-lit studio complete with a desk, cast, cameras and of course plenty of Insomnia and GAME branding.
Earlier this year, rival events company ESL opened its own UK studio in Leicester.

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late '80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.

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