Professional Gaming League Raises $10M

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Major League Gaming, aspiring to become the official league of professional videogaming, raised $10 million in funding from Ritchie Capital, and named Matthew Bromberg, the former general manager of Time Warner's Moviefone and AOL Games properties, as president and chief operating officer, the Wall Street Journal reports. 'The championship match for MLG's second season will be held this weekend in New York, where individuals and teams of gamers will battle against others in fighting and shooter games like Microsoft Corp.'s Halo 2 for a total of $100,000 in prizes. ... The company says it is in discussions with various cable networks about deals to have its competitions carried on television. "We want this to be covered as a circuit," said Mr. Bromberg.'"

Lol

[Colin Smith]

Sports are too energetic for the current generation to anything but stare at a TV, now even computer games are too energetic. hehe.

 

The Wizard!

[calculi]

The final match should be Super Mario Bros. 3!

something else to fill time between commercials

[bobbyhc]

if anything it's going to be techtv's or g4 (whatever the fuck it is now) having lame ass FPS tournaments. it's highly unlikely that the point is going to be to just give viewers a spectator view of the entire game, they'll focus on each player, give some lame ass interview where johnny-too-many-twinkies tells you how gaming has been a suitable replacement for actual human contact, and that he doesn't regret the fact that he's 27 and still hasn't felt anyone up because he can just buy a real doll after he kicks everyone's ass and takes home the prizemoney. then they'll show the whole 30 seconds it takes for him to die at the hands of some 9 year old korean kid followed up by post game statistics given by some girl that is way too hot to actually know anything about the games she's commenting on. but it doesn't matter because you aren't really listening, you're just watching her tits bounce as she nods way too enthusiastically while prentending to care. tune in next week for our exclusive coverage of the EA superbowl, where competitors slap each other on the ass not because it's the only place they'll feel it, but because they're afraid it might get stuck in a fat roll if they went elsewhere.