See Games Differently
See Games Differently
Competitive Gaming
Just as the U.S. dominated the medal count at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, our boys brought home the golden Pikachu cup in all three divisions of the 2012 Pokémon World Video Game Championships in Hawaii this weekend. The trading card game? Not so much.
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.
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…
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