That Team Prime’s MarineKing won the Global StarCraft II League finals held during the Starcraft II IPL 4 tournament in Las Vegas earlier this month comes as no surprise to fans of competitive gaming. The fact that he might have lost if not for a last-minute dropped connection, on the other hand…
Good at Tekken Tag Tournament 2? Want to be on TV? South Korea is getting a new gaming program dubbed Tekken Busters in which features players facing off in The King of Iron Fist Tournament.
When Battlefield 3 comes out next month there will no doubt be a lot of competition between players to see who can make it to the top of the ladder, but now there’s even more incentive to master the game: EA are launching an international competition with $1.6 million of cash and prizes to win.
Street Fighter series producer Yoshinoro Ono and Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada are due for a rematch, and they’ll get their chance during a TEKKEN X Street Fighter tournament at GamesCom. The trash talk is already flying.
EVO the annual fighting game world championships draws hundreds of players competing in six games. It has created gaming stars, like 2010 Super Street Fighter IV (SSFIV) champion Daigo Umehara, and a reputation for unbelievable game-play seen nowhere else.
While researching my feature, When The Best Part of The Beach Is The Arcade, I discovered California Extreme — an annual arcade and pinball gaming showcase in California.