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, created on February 26, 2002, by Cédric Page under the name Millenium, published since 2014 by

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. Its activities are divided as follows: * International and multilingual web media * An esport show "Skell By M" aired every Monday night from 10 p.m. to midnight on * A hardware brand dedicated to gamers

Millenium Network Sites

History

Initially, in 2002, Millenium was a guild (a group of players with a common goal) focused on PvP (player versus player) in the game "

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." Driven by passionate members, the guild quickly became a reference in the French community, and its founder, Cédric Page, first transformed it into a non-profit organization in 2006, then into a

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in 2008 (co-founded with Elie Rotenberg and Sébastien Sadosky). With the rise of broadband internet connections and the growing player base, the company diversified around several complementary areas: * 2006: Creation of the first version of the information site, which quickly became the number 1 information site on competitive

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and esports in France (notably thanks to its guides). It was also this year that the Millenium esport club was created, which included players in

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, Counterstrike,

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. * 2007: Creation of the first

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on the

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platform to broadcast Warcraft III matches commented by Jsung, Kleenex, Shur1kn, and Lege, then later The Best & Yogo. The Web TV Millenium adventure would later move to Netgaming,

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, and

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. * 2011: Opening of the Millenium

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in Marseille. Players, streamers, writers, and technical teams lived and worked there, leading to strong brand growth and the emergence of many talents. * 2014: Millenium was acquired by

and moved its teams to Paris. * 2016: The Millenium

shut down following many departures and a transformation of the

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market driven by the growth of independent influencers. * 2018: The Millenium esport club ended and the new version of the website (V9) launched, marking the brand's focus on its core sustainable activity: web media information and social network growth. The decision was made to orient Millenium internationally with the launch of many similar sites in various major languages. In this year, Cédric Page, the founder, also left

and Millenium. * 2019: Launch of the Millenium Equipment range (hardware brand for gamers, sold via major retailers such as

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, Rue du commerce, & Boulanger) As of May 2020, Millenium.org was the second most visited video game website in France, behind Jeuxvideo.com. In October 2020, Millenium launched its site in Portuguese in Brazil and renamed itself MGG after changing its

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to millennium.gg.

Notes and references

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.millenium.gg/ Video game websites French websites French-language websites Esports websites Internet properties established in 2002