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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Thinking of “CBS” and “sports” conjures up images of quiet rounds of golf, or the contained frenzy of a college basketball game. Now, however, CBS Interactive is throwing its hat into the world of virtual competitions, focusing its energies on the rapidly growing world of eSports.
Athene is quite a character for a player. He rose to a certain kind of internet fame thanks to World of Warcraft, declaring himself the World’s Best Paladin. After leaving WoW, he moved on to Starcraft II, and in recent months he’s taken to League of Legends.
The local competitive fighting scene in Australia is a burgeoning beast, and we tend to punch above our weight as a result. Part of that is thanks to events like Shadowloo Showdown. The announcement trailer for Shadowloo Showdown 2012 has just been released and it’s, for want of a far less played out word, epic.
I’m sitting in an empty function room surrounded by hundreds of empty chairs. Next to me, a small team is bustling energetically, drawing measurements and fine-tuning their floor plan. One of them is in the sound box checking switches; another is marking out the available power points around the large space. They take to their work with such enthusiastic fervour that I am content just to watch them.
What were they working so hard on? They were planning the tenth run of Australia’s longest running Fighting Games Tournament, the OzHadou Nationals (OHN), and they intended on making it the best one yet.
Considering the huge leaps made by competitive gaming in the last year with EVO and MLG, it’s incredible to watch this footage – a news report on the 1982 Australian Colecovision Championship, complete with a strange middle-aged man claiming he is Australia’s first video game super hero. This is classic stuff.
Michael ‘ToXY’ Guida is arguably Australia’s greatest Super Street Fighter IV competitor, and is one of the best Akuma players in the world. In recognition of this, top SSFIV team The Traveling Circus has signed ToXY to a one year contract. This is big news for the burgeoning Australian competitive scene, and proof that Australians players can compete on an international level.
When it comes to fighting games like Street Fighter IV, Australia has a great, burgeoning competitive scene and the announcement of Shadowloo Showdown is testament to this fact. Taking place this weekend, top Japanese players Mago (2D God) and Tokido (Murderface) will join Gamerbee from Taiwan in facing off against the best that Australia has to offer.
The Pokemon Company launches its new Play! Pokemon program today, urging Pokemon fans new and old to pull out their pocket monsters in public.
This weekend marks the third event in the new series of Sydney’s largest gaming competition, which despite increasing in frequency, has enjoyed record prizes and sponsorship. If you fancy your chances, head to Macquarie University this weekend to try your luck in of of the 15 competitions, or check out the world’s first NVIDIA 3D Surround Vision setup.
