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World Cyber Games finals in Seattle this weekend
The World Cyber Games finals are being held in Seattle starting today and ending Sunday. The event is being held at the Qwest center and tickets are $10 per day. Opening ceremony starts at 6PM today. There's a whole slew of events going on and if there's anything you're really interested in seeing it's probably best to check out the schedule.Apparently Spike TV will be there putting something together for early November and GameTrailers is doing some video coverage as well. We've been informed that Rock Band will be playable at the event. If you live in the Seattle area, there's something to do this weekend, let us know how it goes.
World Cyber Games tournament in New York
The World Cyber Games held their US Open video game tournament last week in New York. The two-day event had 68 competitors waging (hyperbole alert) fierce and epic battle for $20,000 in cash and prizes. Players competed in nine different games (titles and winners after the break).We overheard that one of the most entertaining parts of the event was the coach for team MoB competing in Gears of War. Their "coach," Godfath3r, was apparently intense and entertaining to watch; when they played, the whole place would gather around and watch the show as Godfath3r paced back and forth behind his players, shouting at his team to help out -- and at the other team to trash talk. Some highlights include: "You CANNOT Handle THIS!" - 'We are the Number One team in this place." "He is hurt finish him, kill him, kill him, kill him!!!!" "Get SOME!!," said at the end of the match and followed by, "Go shake their hands!" Anybody got the video? Screaming video gamers are always amusing. Especially when they're being serious.[Via Press Release]%Gallery-3687%
Circuit City shoppers invited to compete in World Cyber Games
The nation's best cyber-athletes are already beginning to gather in New York City for the World Cyber Games US Open. Who knows what kind of trials they've endured as they've trained for months, quite possibly years, analyzing the subtleties of each individual frame of animation found in their favorite video game. These competitors, after tirelessly battling countless opponents, will ultimately prove themselves by facing their greatest challenge yet ... you.For those confident in their gaming skills, it's not too late to join the World Cyber Games. The WCG is the leading video game tournament in the world, offering corporate sponsored cash prizes that are beginning to rival other more legitimate sporting events. Those that want to partake in the competition will want to find one of 28 Circuit City stores that are participating in the newly announced World Cyber Games Tour.The Tour will feature two tricked out motor coaches, loaded with HDTVs and tournament games, including: Gears of War, Dead or Alive 4, Project Gothem Racing 3, Tony Hawk's Project 8, FIFA Soccer 07 and Need for Speed Carbon. Players will be competing for a chance to earn wild card slots into a regional WCG event, where they'll have a chance to be defeated by one of the nation's top players. For more details on the tour, visit Circuit City's website.
GoW tourney delayed, chainsawing starts tomorrow
The ever so delayed WCG Gears of War global online tournament will be kicking off tomorrow April 20th with an old fashioned leaderboards reset. The Gears online tourney was supposed to start on April 9th, but due to leaderboard reset difficulties they had to push it back a few days. And since the competition is just getting started tomorrow, they are also extending the registration through May 12th with the tournament ending on May 13th. Grease your chainsaw and practice your roadie run, because there are points to be earned and global leaderboards to conquer.
Gears of Warnament starts next month
Microsoft and World Cyber Games are holding a tournament for Gears of War starting on April 9th and continuing through May 6th over Xbox Live. For those four weeks, registrants will compete in online ranked matches, where the top 11 players on the leaderboard will win a trip for two to Prague, one of the inspirations for the "destroyed beauty" look of Gears of War, to compete in the finals. Registration opens today and continues on through April 29th. Fortunately, they mean it when they call this a "Global" tournament, as over 24 countries are eligible to enter. Are you going to give this a shot? Do you think everyone who registers will "play fair"?
Joystiq on hand at WCG East Coast Regional finals
Joystiq went ahead and hung out at the World Cyber Games East Coast Regional finals today in New York City. Held at the Samsung store in Columbus Circle, gamers participated Saturday in Counter-Strike, FIFA, and DOA4. Besides seeing some of the best players show off their skills, the set up was actually pretty nice because there were Xbox 360s at different stations in the store where you could play DOA4, Halo 2, PGR, or Geometry Wars on the sweet Samsung set ups. In the Counter-Strike finals, [f2]Fearfactor (pictured) took on ViGor, with [f2] coming out the victor after a few overtime rounds. Both teams, however, will be headed to Vegas for the U.S. finals. In FIFA, Juan Alvarado beat Greg Shevach and in DOA4, Michael Saunders took out Paul Michael. If you happen to live near Vegas, I suggest you swing by and check out the finals Sept. 15-17. And, if you happen to live in New York City, events will continue on Sunday for the final day of the East Coast Regional finals with gamers battling in Warcraft III and Starcraft.
Samsung cornering the HDTV gaming market
Got to give it up for Samsung. They stood up and noticed that the gaming market was one huge untapped market for display makers and went after it. First, they received exclusive rights to all the XBOX 360 retail display units, then they developed a gaming mode for their new HDTVs, and now are sponsoring the World Cyber Games for a fifth time. They just seem to understand that gamers are a huge market that spend money. The 1080p PS3 is right around the corner and some people are going to want a new 1080p HDTV to match it. You can bet that Samsung will be right there, pushing their new 1080p DLPs.Are you as a gamer, more opt to spend your hard earned cash with someone that sponsers gaming events?
Offer for one free year of EGM ends today
"Free" offers on the internet often come with annoying trials and lengthy cancellation procedures, but this one here's legit -- it's actually running from the subscription web site of the publisher of EGM, Ziff Davis Media.You may have seen this offer for 12 free issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly on Joystiq or other game sites out there. Basically, what's happening is the Ziff Davis Game Group is running a subscription drive for the mag, sponsored by the World Cyber Games. Free subs are only on offer through today, however, so get a move on if you want a piece of the printed action.Of course, EGM may be no OPM, but it's helpful for even the healthiest fanboy to get a balanced diet of multiplatform news and information on a regular basis. Also, please note that you're under no obligation to sign up for the World Cyber Games page which follows the EGM subscription one, so you can absolutely get your free mag without registering with the WCG.[Via Joystiq]
Pro gaming tournament sets sights on U.S.
The news that the World Cyber Games is headed for Seattle in 2007 goes hand-in-hand with this recent announcement of a new U.S. office for the WCG. Headed up by Michael Arzt, the office serves to show quite how much faith pro gaming leagues like the WCG have in the American market.While professional gaming as a career is mostly associated with Eastern countries, especially Korea, it's been rising in profile in the West recently. As well as the World Cyber Games, the Major League Gaming (MLG) and Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) tournaments are going strong--if you've got the skill and the dedication, there's some serious money to be won in gaming nowadays.
World Cyber Games looking for gamer input
Interested in contributing to the World Cyber Games? The WCG is searching for gamer feedback on the rules and regulations of its tournament games, so if you have a burning desire to see a particular ruleset put in place, now's your chance.Looking for gamer input like this is useful, although part of the WCG organisers' job is to be, or seek out, experts on individual games to advise on rules. However, if enough players contribute their thoughts, there should be less contention over minutiae during the tournament itself.
World Cyber Games '06 titles announced, Halo 2 dropped
The World Cyber Games, an international professional gaming competition, has announced which titles will be used for this year's competitions. With the advent of a new platform, it's been interesting to see where the focus of professional gamers will lie.A return to Counter-Strike 1.6 (last year's competition used Source) and upgrades for FIFA Soccer and Dead or Alive are all on the cards, but the surprise switch outlined is the removal of Halo 2 from the line-up; it's being replaced with Project Gotham Racing 3. Console FPS players will be disappointed.[Via Gamespot]
