In Real Life

Watch Top MLG Pros Compete For $30,000 In Max Payne 3 Multiplayer

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I’m a fan of pro gaming, and I really like what MLG has been doing over the past few years. I’m also pretty excited about the release of Max Payne 3 this week. Wait, there’s a video where these two things are combined? Yes, I’ll have that please.


April 18, 2012
News

Gamers Watch Over 3 Billion Minutes Of Competitive Gaming Per Month

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.


February 18, 2012
Xbox

Major League Gaming And Mad Catz Team Up For A Xbox 360 Controller

With the collective profile of eSports rising over the last decade, you’ve seen an ever-increasing prominence of the kind of endorsed accessories and products that hover around physical sports. Gaming mice, keyboards and gamepads that promise to make you better, faster and more accurate sell to hardcore fans who want an edge in matches where split-seconds matter. So, it follows that Major League Gaming promotion would try its hand at the accessories game.


December 7, 2011
News

More Than 240,000 People Watched Pro Video Game Players Compete

Some people like eSports. Others think the idea of broadcasting competitions of people going at it in Starcraft 2, Black Ops or Halo: Reach won’t ever get mainstream media attention. But it turns out that it may not be necessary, if the new numbers released by the Major League Gaming promotion are any indication.


August 23, 2011
PlayStation

Mad Catz’s Major League Gaming Controllers Can Change The Way You Play

With swappable thumb sticks and directional pads, a special compartment for adjusting weight, and a cable that unscrews from the base when not in use, the Mad Catz Official Major League Gaming Pro-Circuit Controller is a serious controller for the serious gamer.


April 1, 2011
In Real Life

This Is Major League Gaming

Kotaku AU

Major League Gaming is the world’s premier professional console league. As the team embarks on a new season, with a new game in Halo: Reach, we spoke to some of the top players, and the CEO of the league itself to get an insight into competitive gaming’s exploding popularity, and what it takes to become the one of the best console players in the world.


February 7, 2011
Xbox

Check Out These Incredible Halo: Reach Kills

Kotaku AU

Halo: Reach is the console game of choice for most of the top console pros, and with Major League Gaming about to kick off a new season with Reach as its flagship game, they thought it might be appropriate to show off the incredible footage they’ve seen from top players in the last couple of months. This is well worth watching – there are some incredible kills in here…


October 28, 2010
News

Pro Smash Players Banned For Match Fixing

Kotaku AU

Professional Super Smash Bros. is serious business. Top players compete for sizeable prize pots and the competition is fierce. With Pro Gaming hurtling rapidly towards the mainstream, the Super Smash Bros. Brawl competitive scene has grown exponentially – but now it has to contend with serious allegations of match fixing within the highest levels of play.


May 12, 2010
News

Split With Founders Sends Major League Gaming CEO Packing

The founders of Major League Gaming and the league’s CEO have parted ways over a difference in how the professional gaming league should be expanding, with the ousted chief apparently not getting support for more aggressive growth plans.


March 3, 2010
News

Deal Brings MLG Tournaments To EA Sports Titles In 2010

Tournaments sanctioned by Major League Gaming will be a multiplayer feature of certain upcoming EA Sports titles, under a deal announced today by the two parties that proposes to establish “the definitive ranking system for sports gamers in North America”.