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LG Cup Street Fighter IV HD Tournament Debuts on Saturday in Los Angeles

Video game developer and publisher Capcom and consumer electronics company LG have announced that on Saturday the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles will play host to the LG Cup Street Fighter IV HD tournament, which will feature some of the best players in the world and will offer some excellent chances for amateurs to ...

12 January 2012
14:01 GMT

BlazBlue Gets United States and Japan Tournaments in 2012

Aksys Games has announced that it will be organizing the biggest tournament for fighting game BlazBlue, called Revolution, during the month of March 2012 in Japan, using the 3 versus 3 format for matches.Before the Japanese final tournament an event will also be held in the United States on 25th of February of next y...

28 November 2011
14:01 GMT

EA and Virgin Gaming Announced 1.6 Million Dollar Battlefield 3 Tournament

Video game publisher Electronic Arts and Virgin Gaming have announced that they are launching the Battlefield 3 Worldwide Conquest Tournament, which comes complete with a prize chest of 1.6 million dollars, in order to celebrate the launch of the DICE developed first person shooter.The first stage of the competition ...

28 September 2011
05:48 GMT

New Mortal Kombat Comes in April 2011 with Kollector's Edition

Warner Bros. Interactive, the company which now owns the Mortal Kombat rights after the demise of long-term publisher Midway, has announced that the next video game in the series will be launched in the month of April 2011 and will come in a standard edition but also in Kollector's and Tournament flavors. The...

14 December 2010
05:05 GMT

Starcraft 2 Oriented Blizzard Lawsuit Possible in South Korea

An executive from Blizzard has stated that his company might soon take legal action against those Korean television stations that are broadcasting tournaments built around Starcraft, the real time strategy game series, without explicit approval from the developers. The Korea Times newspaper quotes Paul Sams, who i...

6 December 2010
05:08 GMT

Poker Manager - Invite Style to Your Poker Nights

Supposedly originating from the Persian game of As Nas, Poker has become over the centuries one of the most popular card games. Famous for the adrenaline rush that it can generate due to the consistent amount of money won/lost during a single hand but also for the calm required to master the game, Poker can be very d...

12 April 2010
12:31 GMT

Elegant Way to Manage Your Poker Tournaments

Poker is a very well-known gambling game that offers exciting moments when you’re wining and pretty bad feelings when you’re losing. Poker is not about being lucky, as many of you might think, it is about math. When the cards are dealt, every decision you make should be based on odds, probabilities and ch...

22 January 2009
12:01 GMT

Start Training for the Metal Gear World Championship 2008

I am sure that you're a fan of the Metal Gear Solid franchise and, even more, you love the multiplayer thrills offered by Metal Gear Online. If so and if you consider yourself one of the best players ever, you should be really pleased to find out that Konami is planning to start a World Championship competition ...

17 July 2008
12:06 GMT

Mario Kart Wii Gets DLC?

Nintendo can do all sorts of strange things and what has happened with their tournament is one of the biggest of them all and it either means that DLC is slowly becoming an option for the Wii or some games are planned a long time ahead and they just know how to market them. The truth is that we can't say anythin...

3 June 2008
05:03 GMT

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Contest Puts $5,000 Prizes up for Grabs

If you're an Xbox 360 fan and love playing Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, you can now mix the two, blend them together, have a great time and enter a competition that could bring you some goodies - we're talking about prizes of over $5,000! All these thanks to UGO Networks, id Software, Activision and the New...

18 April 2008
15:16 GMT

Apple Stores to Host Guitar Hero III Tournaments

Aspyr Media has recently gone public announcing that Apple retail stores country-wide will be hosting tournaments in light of the recently released Mac version of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Competitors are eligible to win iTunes gift cards.According to Inside Mac Games, each day (of the ones listed below) host...

5 March 2008
11:11 GMT

The Club Championship Tournament, Kill for Money

Well, this is definitely not the type of tournament your parents want to hear you're taking part in and Jack Thompson might come there holding a "Kill Video Games" banner but you would see nothing wrong in joining it, right? Well... here's the tip: iGames is holding a two day competition at 16 game centers ...

29 February 2008
05:17 GMT

Watch Out for Tournament Scam, You Can Lose Real Money!

There are a lot of official tournaments and competitions organized by game developers or serious gaming networks. These will probably have no problem in giving you the exact cash prize they have promised or offer a full refund if something goes wrong. Unfortunately, there are a ton of other competitions organized in ...

19 February 2008
07:01 GMT

Crysis Challenges You!

Intel wants to date you, Crysis fans! And no, they're not thinking (only) about hot sexy girls - they are actually searching for people who enjoy playing the latest Crytek game and who want to take part in the first ever Crysis mapping contest. There are two Crysis universe-related contest categories - Single p...

22 January 2008
15:06 GMT

Win $10,000 from EA Sports!

Electronic Arts has announced the start of the 2008 EA Sports NBA Live Challenge, which is going to tip off at the Universal Studios in Los Angeles on the 19th of January. This challenge will be held in eight major NBA cities and it will give basketball fans a chance to test their skills against the best of the best...

18 January 2008
06:30 GMT

Unleash the Wrestler in You for WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008 International Tournament

There is a chance for all the wrestling fans who would like to become professional wrestlers but there's no way for them to do it - take part in a wrestling tournament, win it and become the greatest wrestler in the world. No, we're not talking about some new steroids or surgeries or God knows what. We'...

15 January 2008
03:31 GMT

Bomberman LIVE Tournament: 100,000 MS Points!

Does your mom say that you play video games all the time, going on about how it would be nice if you could do that for a living? Well, you might just get the chance to prove this too can be done for a living. At least in Xbox LIVE anyway... Hudson Entertainment has recently announced the Bomberman LIVE New Year'...

3 January 2008
02:57 GMT

Win a Fortune with... Soldier of Fortune

Activision, together with GGL have announced the Ultimate Mercenary Tournament for the newly released Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Translating the title, we'll get the following: "It's time to pay you back... a fortune, soldier!" Sounds interesting enough? Playing games and earning huge amounts of cash alwa...

14 December 2007
05:21 GMT

Tokyo Steel RAW: 100% Amateur Robots Fight For Supremacy!

If you are among the robot aficionados, then you'd love this for sure. During Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship match, the robotic hell broke loose. Reuters reports on thousands of mini bots that sang, barked, kicked and more, all just to be voted the world's robo-champ.The Championship gathere...

5 December 2007
02:16 GMT

2007 EA SPORTS Craftsman NASCAR Challenge Winner Announced

NASCAR fans and players of EA's NASCAR 08 should know that the giant publisher and developer of sports games (and not only) has announced the winner of the 2007 EA SPORTS Craftsman NASCAR Challenge. Brandon Coppinger walked away with 10,000 bucks in cash after five intense rounds of racing on the Homestead-Miami...

28 November 2007
03:35 GMT

Check Out XBL Marketplace PGR4 Fans, Something's There for You!

If you haven't checked with Xbox Live Marketplace lately, you should. More so if you're a Project Gotham Racing 4 gamer, as Microsoft has just rolled out four new Tournament modes, which you can download right now, for free. Fans will have the opportunity to engage in drifting and sliding competitions with ...

16 November 2007
05:26 GMT

Halo 3 Launch Multiplayer Tournament

The game has finally made it officially to this part of the world as well, and since the game's presence on the market isn't hot news anymore, something had to be done to get everyone's attention. What could that 'something' be if not a Halo 3 multiplayer competition?16 Editorial staff member...

12 November 2007
09:32 GMT

First Halo 3 Tournament Confirmed - 1st Place Wins 5,000

Hurray Halo fans! The first Halo 3 tournament has been confirmed. A recent report claims that XLEAGUE.TV, the UK's first dedicated eSports television channel and website will be giving away no more, no less than 10,000 for the first Halo 3 Competition. The 4 vs 4 tournament registration opens on 26th September ...

25 August 2007
09:39 GMT

First Mobile Phone Gaming Tournament

Mobile gaming has proved to be more and more addictive in the last few years, as it has become capable of providing higher performances. We now have better graphics, more challenges and even a gaming championship for mobile games.Few understand the high amount of skills that people might need in order to perfectly ma...

11 June 2007
04:00 GMT

Play for Money: Tournament.com - Online PvP

How about playing not just for fun, but for money too? I know what you're thinking: "Naaa. I'm not up to it, there must be millions out there better than I am." But you'd be wrong, as Tournament.com announced that it will soon offer gamers the ability to play top online games for money in a safe and se...

30 March 2007
05:25 GMT


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