For those of you who are already Crysis fans, a 3vs3 PowerStruggle Tournament, powered by Multiplay, has been detailed, along with an interesting interview with Senior Sound Designer Florian Fusslin.

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Here is the full changelog:

• Fixed lightning gun sound, no more loud enemies.
• Added team_say for spectators so they can chat only among spectators.
• Increased the speed of nailgun nails.
• The powerups now spawn at the same time after match start.
• cg_lagometer 2 will now display the client ping estimation along with the standard lag-o-meter graph.
• cg_chatBeep allows you to enable/disable the audible beep when you receive a message.
• cg_teamChatBeep allows you to enable/disable the audible beep when you receive a message from a teammate.
• cg_selfOnTeamOverlay toggles whether you see yourself in the team overlay.
• cg_fov lower limit is now 10.
• Changed demo autorecord naming to more easily sort and locate.
• cg_autoaction 0-3
  0 – do nothing
  1 – auto record demo
  2 – auto record a screenshot at end of game
  3 – auto record demo and screenshot
• cl_autoRecordDemo has been removed in favor of the new cg_autoaction system.
• cl_demoRecordMessage 0/1 allows you to toggle the “RECORDING…” message on the hud when recording a demo.
• cl_conTimestamps can now display values in game time.
  0 – Do nothing
  1 – Show values in game time (affected by cg_levelTimerDirection)
  2 – Show values in servertime
• Fix for several keys becoming unbound (2,e,u,o,s,m)
• Spectators will no longer get the “Internal combustion” message upon respawn after following a player that was mined.
• Fix for a dropweapon bug that could cause other players in the game to auto switch to another weapon.
• Removed setu/sets commands.
• Fix for odd sv_maxclients values.
• Warmup delay is now disabled for bot games.
• Zoomed fov calculation now takes aspect ratio into account.
• Some FireFox users were experiencing crashes while loading into maps, these issues have been resolved.

Competition mode changes:

• Added support for limiting the amount of timeouts called, and configuring their default duration. Time outs remaining are indicated on the team scoreboards.
• Server owners can deop other clients with the ‘deop’ command.
• Pause and Timeout events print to the console.

1. Daigo Umehara (Ryu)
2. Justin Wong (Boxer, Abel, Rufus)
3. Ed Ma (Akuma)
4. Sanford (Akuma, Cammy)
5. Long Tran (Akuma)
6. Eduardo Perez (Boxer, E-Honda)
7. Dan (from Japan) (Ryu)
8. Ricky Ortiz (Rufus)

I caught a few minutes of the Marvel vs Capcom 2 semi-finals as well, and was very disappointed to find out that I’m not as good at the game as I thought I was.

Anyways, a new documentary titled King of Chinatown is also being released, focusing on runner-up Justin Wong’s road to this year’s EVO. However, the trailer makes the assumption that he is, in fact, the best Street Fighter IV player even though it was made official at EVO that he is not. Regardless, the documentary still looks very interesting.

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Along with the main patch, Mod Tools 1.3 is now out, in addition to the 1.5 Linux dedicated server bins. The new Mod Tools allows gamers to get started on their own Nazi Zombie maps, so expect a load of fun new environments to shoot some undead heads off soon.

The developers also gave the GGL and Clanbase a plug, encouraging competitive players to sign up for the new PC tournaments. The tournaments’ prizes offer up to $2,500 prizes and Call of Duty apparel.

Make the jump for the changelog.

• 3 new MP maps: Banzai, Corrosion, Sup Pens!
• 1 new Zombie map with a new weapon (the Wunderwaffe DG-2), flaming Hell Hounds, new traps, and more: Shi No Numa!
• CO-OP hosts can now kick players from their lobby
• Improved dog spawning in MP
• Addressed an issue with Zombie pathing
• Fixed an instance of the player model displaying incorrectly
• Some unhandled exception errors have been addressed
• Improved server browser’s refresh functionality when the Source is set to ‘Favorites’
• Added support for CODTV
• “cg_DrawFPS 1” now only displays FPS and cg ms/frame
• Added RCon command “teamstatus” to display players’ team information
• Mods: Added joinsquad script function
• Mods: Players can now join CO-OP lobbies that are hosting map names with more than eighteen characters
• Mods: Users can now load custom maps when the usermaps folder contains fifty or more custom maps
• Mods: Removed the loading of duplicate assets that contributed to the ‘2048 materials’ error
• Mods: Increased the amount of mods displayable in the Mods menu
• Mods: Fixed a crash related to the mod.arena file

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And now, Nintendo has once again released its Punch Out line, this time for the all too appropriate Wii. You’ll once again step into the role of the Bronx’s boxing sensation Little Mac, looking to make a name for yourself along with your trainer Doc Lewis. You’ll take on a series of outrageous characters with a series of different boxing styles until you face your final opponent. You’ll also be able to completely replay the game in a whole different way by selecting the Title Defense mode, in which you’ve already won the title but are now out to hold onto it against every boxer you defeated. And they’re none too happy about the loss.

The first thing that I have to tell you, if you’re going to try this game is, for the sake of all that’s holy, STRETCH FIRST. It may not be intuitive—stretch before playing a video game? Preposterous!—but you’re going to save yourself plenty of hurt if you stretch your arms and shoulders before playing. The way this game is set up, there’s two ways to play—with the Wii controller horizontally inclined like a normal controller, or using the motion sensitivity features of the Wii to make regular air punches, and believe me, you will be throwing a LOT of punches. The boxers you’ll face are downright turtles in their capacity for blocking, and you can pretty much count on one in every two or even three of your punches landing. That is, of course, unless you’ve studied a walkthrough or videos or even practiced in advance so you already know each boxer’s pattern.

Each of the boxers you’ll face does have a pattern, and generally, it won’t take too long to learn just where to lean and where to block and where to throw punches like a lunatic, but still, in the intervening space you will be wasting PLENTY of motion. All of this can do horrible things to your arms and shoulders if you’re not careful. Trust me, I still ache from my bout with King Hippo.

But still…I’m pretty satisfied with this game. It’s got decent graphics and excellent background musical effects and fun gameplay that’ll actually be a halfway decent workout. That’s the one really interesting thing about the Wii, really—a lot of their games make good workouts. And this is a workout that’s surprisingly plenty of fun, too, making it one of the best kind: the kind where participants will come back.

This is no different with the release of Smackdown Vs. Raw 2009.

I’d give you the plot synopsis for this one, but it’d take a couple pages.  See, one of the really truly awesome things about Smackdown Vs. Raw 2009 is that each of the characters will have a positively huge storyline.  Just for a for instance, if you play as The Undertaker (my personal favorite), not only will you get to pound both Santino and Finlay into the ground (possibly opening up the patently ridiculous Hornswoggle as a management character), you’ll also go into the heavyweight championship to take on the Great Khali when both Santino and Finlay will form a coalition specifically intended to take out The Undertaker.

I have never been so convinced that Transmetropolitan was right.  TV wrestling is, indeed, phallocentric soap opera for, among others, intellectually lazy intellectual people who get off by cultural slumming. I admit to enjoying  a bit of the brain candy every so often, and there’s really nothing like this for brain candy.

Of course, it’s not all about just really arrogant ways to say “brain candy”, no sir—this is also about pounding cultural stereotypes into oblivion.  Santino, for instance—he’s from JERSEY.  His accent is thicker than Olive Garden’s alfredo sauce, and he comes in with an on-screen graphic that features a waving Italian tricolor flag.  It almost—ALMOST!—felt like I was beating the hell out of Italy itself.

I will say this much for Smackdown Vs. Raw 2009—they really have captured the pomp, circumstance and majesty that this entire sport is built around.  When I walked the Undertaker in for Royal Rumble, they actually had a dozen guys wearing hooded cassocks line my path with live torches.  It was probably unnecessary, but really, I’m glad they took the trouble.  Why the Undertaker doesn’t show up in more horror flicks is beyond me.  But anyway.

Sure, the gameplay is sort of limited—pound hell out of a competitor until he refuses to continue and then attempt to pin him.  But you can’t really blame the game for this, as this is pretty much all that wrestling actually is.  That whole saw about silk purses and sow’s ears?  Yeah, that was made for games like this.

If you’re already a Smackdown / Raw / ECW fan, then you probably don’t need me to tell you that this is a fairly fun game with some interesting storylines.  Thus, this next remark goes out to those who already aren’t watching the show with any regularity, much like myself.  You don’t need to have a really intimate knowledge of the show to be able to follow the game, so if you want a quick introduction to the world of Smackdown / Raw / ECW, then you’ll have exactly what you need in Smackdown Vs Raw 2009.  For fans it’s a must-buy, and for everyone else, it’s actually a pretty good rental.

Pwned, you see, is a chess game.  As such, there’s no real plot, and there’s also no real single player mode.  Pwned is made to be played with friends on Xbox Live Arcade.  As such, it has something of a limited appeal–you have to have a match in order to play–but for those who have friends or good online connections, then this won’t be a problem.

If you have friends and a desperate hankering for some…chess…then Pwned is the game for you.  Otherwise…well…okay, otherwise you’re going to have absolutely NO use for this game, but at the bargain price of four hundred Microsoft points, it costs less than some chess sets.  If you’re into chess, this is a good buy.

It was recently announced that SCEA and Global Gaming are offering a tournament for PSP title Resistance: Retribution. The prize? $25,000 worth of Sony gear.

The tournament will run both 2v2 and 4v4 ladders and goes today through May 10th.

Prizes, courtesy of Kotaku, are as follows:

2v2 Competition Prizes
• First Place (2 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards, and PSP® TV Prize Pack (32″ XBR TV, PSP®-3000, 16GB PRO Duo and Component AV Cables. ARV $1420) for each player
• Second Place (2 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards, and PSP® Pack (PSP®-3000, 16GB PRO Duo. ARV $370) for each player
• Third Place (2 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards for each player
• Fourth Place (2 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards for each player

4v4 Competition Prizes
• First Place (4 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards, and PSP® TV Prize Pack (32″ XBR TV, PSP-3000, 16GB PRO Duo and Component AV Cables. ARV $1420) for each player
• Second Place (4 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards, and PSP® Pack (PSP-3000, 16GB PRO Duo. ARV $370) for each player
• Third Place (4 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards for each player
• Fourth Place (4 players): Leather Bomber Jacket (ARV $180), $500 in Sonystyle® Gift Cards for each player

More official information here.

Gamers today are pretty much hooked up on statistics and prediction games and apparently this has set the stage for KlickSports to launch their free sports-based interactive prediction games, College Basketball Championship Challenge game, which is now open for fans to join and compete.

By visiting www.klicksports.com/promo/bracket.html, users can immediately participate in the fun by playing one game in each Region (4) in the First Round, and then continue to play one Regional game in each Round all the way through to the Final in April. Fans can play online (via automated Instant Messenger) and on mobile phones (via automated Text Messaging) during the entire Tournament. Players will be playing for prizes throughout the series, with a chance to win a PS3, iPods and team baseball caps.

The College Basketball Championship Challenge follows on KlickSports’ successful Super Bowl game in which KlickSports saw its user base increase by 48 percent. With the KlickSports’ college basketball series, fans predict team and player stats live during the game and play against their friends and other fans for points and prizes.

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The SciFi Channel has recently released the above trailer which details a new show they have in the works; WCG Ultimate Gamer. Think MTV’s Real World, but with gamers.

The WCG Ultimate Gamer will take 12 gamers from across the country, put them in a loft in downtown LA, and see who is the best.

The grand prize stands at $100,000, along with a whole slew of top of the line Samsung products and a change to represent the US at WCG events around the world.

Sounds cool, will premiere March 10th on the SciFi Channel.

One place where the difference almost feels necessary is racing games.  And today, after trying Pure, I can say that sometimes, the same old same old is exactly what we need.

In Pure, you play as one of a group of racers, out for glory on the Pure circuit for their own reasons.  There’s a brother and sister rivalry, there’s the son of a seventies rock star who wants to make a name for himself and get out of his father’s shadow, there’s a Japanese wildman who just has a gift, there’s a girl who worked three jobs to afford her own ATV, and so on and so forth right down the line.  But these stories are little more than window dressing for the main event–getting on your fully customizable ATV, going to some of the most beautiful places on earth, and blasting through them at somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred miles an hour on a motorized seat with wheels that doesn’t have so much as a roll bar.

When I say “fully customizable”, I mean it–you’ll build an ATV literally from scratch, starting with the frame, going through such necessary parts as brakes and engines and even working your way up to such superfluities as hand guards and Nerf bars.  You’ll even get to decide the COLOR of most components, and add on decals and stickers and everything but a Hello Kitty bobblehead on the handlebars.  Which would be kind of cool, but I digress.

And when I was talking about a roll bar, you’ll want one.  These beautiful places–a mountainous island in Italy, an old logging camp in Montana, a crater in New Zealand–have lots of steep drops and big angles that you will, not surprisingly, use as jumps.  I’m no mathematician, but if I’m getting the scale right some of these drops are a couple hundred feet up.  And being the sort that you are, of course, you’ll take these huge drops as an opportunity to flip or spin your ATV in mid-flight or jump off it temporarily or do all sorts of irresponsible and potentially fatal things in mid-flight.  These are called “tricks”, and you will have the opportunity to do plenty of them.  The interesting thing is, if you DON’T do these tricks, you will be refused access to your nitrous oxide boosters, which is likely to put you at a serious disadvantage in the race.

This of course makes no sense in the real world–normally nitrous boosters are on a switch, and the switch really doesn’t care if you “catch mad sick air” before you use it, but this is a game so allowances have to be made.  Also, nitrous tanks will not refill mid-race because they have such respect for your ability to perform tricks…but again, game, allowances, yadda yadda.

But the key thing to take away here is that Pure is an unsettlingly adrenaline-fuelled experience.  The next-gen graphics really do help underscore the beauty of your surroundings, while at the same time also giving you the feeling of being about to wet yourself after a couple hundred foot drop off the side of a cliff.  While you’re hanging off the back of the ATV doing something called a “Superman”.  The music is a fair accompanyment, but I’d like to hear a little more variety from some more recognizable names.  Come on, guys–was Blink 182 that busy?  A little Offspring, perhaps?

Still, Pure is a surprising experience that should get your heart pumping as you do horrifying and ridiculous things you’d never do in real life.  At the very least, a fun rental, and if you’re already into ATVs then just go whole hog and get the game.

You’re not alone in considering this odd–I certainly did.  Console games, unless they’re specifically marketed as such and generally packaged in collections, should not be so simple to play and so simple in construction that they can be called casual.  But this is the case–you play one of several boxers who’s out to win fame and glory and the right to punch a whole lot of people in the face.  And that’s ALL you do.  You punch. You have your choice of high punch and low punch, you can add dash moves to your punch, and you can even use SPECIAL punches called “Breakers” in conjunction with your regular punches.  But no matter how you slice it, you’re still just swinging a fist.

Some have criticized the game’s broken AI being unnecessarily difficult and thus unplayable.  And after playing a few rounds I can’t help but agree with them.  When the game itself actually TELLS you, even on the easiest settings, that you WILL lose and you WILL lose frequently until you figure out each boxer’s specific weak point, someone may have made a serious mistake designing the AI.  A game should never have to openly declare its own difficulty as though it were a box of cookies announcing its fat content!

This is actually pretty sad—the game itself is a good idea.  It’s clever, it’s funny, some of the boxers have really amazing backstories and are downright entertaining.  For instance, fighting Steve in the arcade pits you against a short fat kid in a ninja suit who’s the trivia king of his fantasy gaming guild.  There’s a Russian boxer by the name of Molotov who fights while wearing a belt of explosives.  There’s a certifiable lunatic, a giant with the mind of a child, a voodoo priest, a Japanese schoolgirl…and a legion of other great choices.  The whole thing is done in a cartoonish style, and the visible facial deformations are a riot to watch.   The character voices are nicely done—watching the audition tapes is a laugh and a half.

There are even celebrity boxers involved or at least scheduled to be; ever watch an episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” and say, wow, I wish I could just slug Kim a few good ones?  With Facebreaker, you actually CAN!  Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag can actually square off via Facebreaker.

But all of these wonders together can’t quite exempt Facebreaker from its biggest problem—an AI so damaged that it’s virtually impossible to play in single player mode.  I can’t say how the multiplayer would work out—I generally work alone.  But the key point remains: playing Facebreaker is like trying to drive a Ferrari with a busted axle.  It looks great, it sounds great, it’s a beautiful system, but man…it’s not going anywhere any time soon.  And trying to go anywhere with it will only do more damage and leave you seriously frustrated.

Like any other Home games you will be able to unlock items for your avatar which should be really fun to do in a game like that racing game here. If you happen to be close to CES 2009 go take a look. It’s currently the only game of the three that EA has made available.

The EA Sports Complex will be launched at the end of March and it will grow more in the future. EA will bring interactivity between EA Sports Complex and EA’s Sportsworld in the future. Players will be able to interact and EA will be using Home for various timed events. Anxious to get EA Sports Complex?

via kotaku

Becoming a new nerd heaven of sorts, this year’s event will take place in Paris, France, at the Porte de Versailles Exposition Center on the 28 and 29 of June. Tickets for the two-day event will cost 70 Euros, which will feature hands-on play with the latest versions of WoW: Wrath of the Lich King and StarCraft 2.

Blizzard developers and exclusives will also be present to share the latest news, meet with attendees and participate in public discussion panels. The tournaments will also see players walking away with a total of $100,000 in prizes. There will also be costume and dance contests, live musical performances and more. Additionally, all attendees will get a goody bag that includes a beta key for an upcoming game from the studio as well as an exclusive WoW in-game pet.

Check back as the ladder unfolds and we take a look at who could be the next Final Bosses of Halo 3.

To kick off its entrance into the tournament scene, GameStop will be holding its first Madden tournament on December 15th with the winner receiving $1000 dollars in store credit.

Press release after the break.

CPL Announces Stop and Finals in London, UK

LONDON, UK – December 4, 2007 – The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), a pioneer in professional video gaming competitions, today announced that Gamerbase, one of the world’s most advanced gaming centers, will play host to the $300,000 CPL World Tour Grand Finals here, February 27 and 28, 2008. Featuring the largest prize offering for any professional video game tournament ever held in the UK, the event is co-sponsored by video game publisher Sierra Entertainment and in association with CPL United Kingdom.

The CPL also announced the addition of a 2007 CPL World Tour London qualifying stop, with a $40,000 prize pool, January 30, 2008, also at Gamerbase, a state-of-the-art 80 PC LAN gaming center located within the Trocadero at Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London. Winners will be eligible to enter the World Tour Finals. Registration details for the new qualifier will be announced December 10th at www.cplworldtour.com.

The 2007 CPL World Tour is a grassroots competition that has attracted a large pool of the world’s top amateur players, shining a spotlight on the next generation of professional video game sports stars. Earlier CPL World Tour qualifying events were held in Italy, Sweden and the U.S.

The Tour features two critically acclaimed titles from Sierra Entertainment:

F.E.A.R. ™ (First Encounter Assault Recon), originally released in the fall of 2005, was heralded by PC Gamer as the “Best Action Game of the Year” for its combination of stylized first-person action combat and supernatural suspense. The Finals will feature the Xbox 360™ multiplayer edition introduced last year, giving players the opportunity to compete in paranormal frenetic multiplayer action that has become the signature of the F.E.A.R. franchise.

World in Conflict™, which launched in September, is the next-generation of action strategy games. World in Conflict has received numerous editors’ choice awards from
game critics worldwide. The game breaks new ground in multiplayer gameplay by being amongst the first strategy games to introducing player roles to its intense team-based combat. Showcasing the Windows PC version, the intense World War 3 title has been played all year on the CPL World Tour.

“The CPL held its first international qualifier in the UK almost nine years ago and we are excited to return with the largest prize tournament in the UK,” said Angel Munoz, founder and president, CPL. “We will continue with our commitment to bringing large tournaments to the UK and Europe on a regular basis, and other events will be announced shortly for this region.”

“The culmination of a worldwide gaming tournament in London again demonstrates that the UK is at the heart of the European games scene,” said Dominic Mulroy, Managing Partner of CPL United Kingdom. “This event will be a launch pad for a new series of e-sports tournaments across the UK and Europe from 2008 onwards.”

The tournament will be held both at Gamerbase and at The CC Club, a large and popular bar and club, located next door to Gamerbase and right in the heart of London’s West End. In addition to the competition, a special VIP Party will be held at the night club where Dallas-based rock band Superstring is scheduled to perform live.

Australia Stop Update

We regret to inform you that the CPL and Sierra Entertainment have decided to cancel the CPL World Tour tournament stop in Australia. Although we have been looking forward to hosting players from around the world in tournaments with the critically acclaimed titles, “World in Conflict” and “F.E.A.R.,” we were unable to secure the high volume of registrants needed to extend a truly competitive and level playing field.

We sincerely apologize to all of the players who did register and to those who had planned on attending the show and competing in the World Tour tournament this weekend. Both the CPL and Sierra Entertainment strive to ensure the best and the most competitive events and ensure it is worthy for players of all games and skill levels to participate. The CPL and Sierra sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We are exploring other opportunities to fulfill your competitive drive — so stay tuned!

We are grateful to our wonderful partners at the Supernova Pop Culture Expo for their hospitality and collaboration. We would like to extend our sincerest thanks and appreciation for their support and dedication to the CPL, Sierra Entertainment and to our games, World in Conflict and F.E.A.R.. Sierra Entertainment will have a booth at the Supernova Pop Culture Expo this weekend, and will be showcasing “World in Conflict,” “F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate” and “TimeShift”. Be sure to come by.

See you all there!

Sierra Entertainment & Cyberathlete Professional League

VisitCPLWorldTour.com for more.

Full press release after the break.

LOS ANGELES, October 22, 2007 – G4, the network that’s plugged in, is connecting to the world of competitive gaming by partnering with Major League Gaming, the world’s largest video game league, for the exclusive television rights to air the 2007 Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit competitions. Each MLG tournament features world-class Pro Gamers battling for a chance to win the respect of gamers around the world as well as $1MM in cash and prizes. Beginning Nov. 16, the one-hour shows covering each of the Pro Circuit competitions will air Fridays at 11 pm ET/PT, only on G4.

“MLG tournaments provide a rare opportunity to watch the world’s best professional gamers in action,” said Neal Tiles, President, G4. “The gaming competitions are a natural extension of G4’s leading games coverage and illustrate our dedication to giving our young male audience the widest breadth of high-quality content possible.”

In addition to the most intense gaming action available anywhere, G4’s broadcasts of MLG events will take viewers behind-the-scenes of MLG to learn more about the players, the games and the skills required to be among the world’s best competitive gamers.

“G4 understands video games and the male viewer. With its recent acquisition of high-profile programming like Heroes and Lost, we feel the MLG Pro Circuit couldn’t have found a better home,” said Matthew Bromberg, President and CEO of Major League Gaming.

G4 is the leading broadcast source for everything related to digital entertainment. “X-Play” is the network’s flagship gaming show and the most-watched video game series on television, offering smart, funny and brutally honest reviews of the hottest new video games. G4’s extensive games coverage also includes live, comprehensive coverage of the most important video game news and events, ranging from important gaming milestones (e.g., Nintendo Wii launch, Halo 3 release) to industry events such as E3 and CES. Additional video game information is available at http://www.g4tv.com, home to thousands of game reviews, previews, cheat codes and more, along with the latest, up-to-the-minute gaming news and information.

Scott Messick of Mess Media (“Survivor”) is the executive producer of the show for MLG. Tony Krantz (“24”) and Zack Sherman of Flame Ventures are serving as the show’s consulting producers. Messick and Krantz previously partnered to create the first NASCAR reality show for FX and ESPN, “NASCAR Drivers: 360.”

The 2007 Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit is powered by Xbox 360 and presented by GameStop.

About G4
Based in Los Angeles, recently formed Comcast Entertainment Group operates E! Entertainment Television, the 24-hour network with programming dedicated to the world of entertainment, and E! Online; The Style Network, the destination for women 18-49 with a passion for the best in relatable and inspiring lifestyle programming; and G4 offering the last word on gaming, technology, animation, interactivity, and “Internet culture” for the male 18-34 demo. E! is currently available to nearly 92 million cable and direct broadcast satellite subscribers in the United States. In 2006, E! launched the E! Everywhere initiative underscoring the company’s dedication to making E! content available on all new media platforms any time and anywhere — from online to broadband at The Vine @E!Online to wireless to satellite radio to VOD. The Style Network currently counts 59 million cable and satellite subscribers and G4, the #1 podcasted cable network in America, is available in more than 65 million cable and satellite homes nationwide.

About Major League Gaming
Major League Gaming is North America’s first professional videogame league, and its only sanctioning body for pro gaming. MLG operates a multi-city live pro circuit, held in major venues across North America; produces compelling competitions for national television, broadband and mobile distribution; and exclusively represents the best gamers in the world. It also operates a thriving online community and online tournaments for millions of gamers at mlgpro.com. MLG, founded in 2002, is based in New York City and privately held.