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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ is to stream live coverage of a major e-gaming contest for the first time.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Three will show highlights of the quarter-finals of the League of Legends World Championships on its website.

The event, at Wembley Stadium next week, will be presented by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin.

League of Legends is an online role-playing battle game played by some 27 million users every day, according to US developers Riot Games.

Teams compete in a and each game lasts between 20 and 60 minutes.

This year's championship, which sees gamers compete with each other live on stage, is spread out across multiple European cities.

Teams from Europe, Asia and North America will take part, and the finals will be hosted at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin on 31 October.

The total prize pool for the championship is $2m (£1.3m), with the winning team set to take home $1m.

In 2014, some 70 million hours of footage from the games were watched worldwide, according to the game's developers.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Three will collaborate with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport on the broadcast, using the platform previously used for live sporting events and the Glastonbury festival.

Live and pre-recorded video would "sit side by side" with text, audio and social-network commentary, said the channel.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Three controller Damian Kavanagh said: "We jumped at the chance to collaborate with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport and bring this massive UK event to a wider audience.

"´óÏó´«Ã½ Three will always experiment with new ways to deliver content that young people want, in ways they want.

"I think this is an exciting way to cover something millions of young Brits love, in a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three way."