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…


January 31, 2011
Xbox

The Xbox 360 That Thinks It’s The End Of The World

The Xbox 360 was recently redesigned to make the thing look better. More stylish. If, instead, you’d like to lock it away behind a giant (and slightly terrifying) sci-fi gas mask, well, have we got the deal for you.


November 5, 2010
News

Major League Gaming’s Grand Finale

Kotaku AU

For fans of console pro gaming, the MLG National Championships is the culmination of a season full of events, and the chance for the best pro players to compete against one another for enormous cash prizes, not to mention the bragging rights of being the best in the world.


October 15, 2010
News

Halo: Major League Gaming

Kotaku AU

If you happen to be a fan of the Halo series and, more specifically, Halo multiplayer, you might want to check out Major League Gaming, who are hosting one of their major events this weekend in Washington DC.


August 24, 2010
In Real Life

Pro Gamers Ban New Control Pad

Razer’s Onza control pad for the Xbox 360 sure looked nice when we saw it at CES earlier this year. Problem is, for some people, it’s too nice.


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”.


January 12, 2010
News

MLG Win Ruined By Faulty Xbox 360

Major League Gaming team Triggers Down came close to advancing towards another tournament win this weekend in Orlando, only to have an equipment failure rob them of the Halo 3 CTF win.


January 11, 2009
Uncategorized

MLG Gets More Moolah

Major League Gaming got another US$7.5 million from one of its venture capital firms, which called the pro video gaming league “a cultural phenomenon.”