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.
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…
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.”