Gaming & E-Sports
The new Xbox; 720
Microsoft will continue its partnership with AMD in providing the processing power inside the Xbox console for its new upcoming console released in 2012. A post on Fudzilla also speculates on a 2012 release, even though I noted earlier that Activision’s CEO believes we will have to wait longer. Read more…
New Counter-Strike game?
Gooseman, known in the real world as Minh Le, is one of the main names connected to Counter-Strike. One of the most popular games ever and a modification at that! After living in his parents basement for two years, he has found an investor interested in backing him to develop his new game; Tactical Intervention! Read more…
Turbine to focus on console MMO
Where I wrote that Activision Blizzard will pass by console, Turbine is looking to do the exact opposite! Craig Alexander, Turbine´s vice president of product developmment states that the MMO´s revolutionized the PC as a gaming platform and it is going to do the same for consoles. Read more…
Blizzard’s new MMO
Normally, Blizzard does not speak out about upcoming titles. The company, nicknamed ‘Fortress of Solitude’, did manage to slip some information to the public at the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference; telling gamers to expect something with a broader appeal than World of Warcraft.
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said:
What we’ve announced at Blizzard is that we have Starcraft II coming, Diablo has been in production… and a new, unannounced MMORPG that has a little more broad appeal
So the new title will NOT be a competitor to World of Warcraft, they will try to find an additional audience. To make sure this happens, Jeff Kaplan, the World of Warcraft game director, has been moved towards this brand-new property.
The upcoming changes to Battle.net; Battle.net 2.0, will also be incorporated in the new MMO, so the upcoming and current Blizzard titles; Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, World of Warcraft and now the unnamed new title, will all be woven together on one platform. Adding cash play and more rewards and recognition systems will likely expand their audience even more, if they manage to integrate it all, it will make for one hell of a platform!
SK Gaming
When I started playing videogames seriously I was 13 or 14. Counter-Strike was the game and the competitors were organized in clans. 1997 is one of the biggest years of my age, google.com was registered, my future company Netgamez was founded in that year, and there are many more companies based on the new age of internet that started in that fine year. SK Gaming is not one of the big companies, but it is the leading company when it comes to gaming, and more specifically, e-sports. Read more…
Promise of the gaming market
The gaming market promises to be even more of a major market than it already is. Consider this;
- To start gaming, someone only needs a computer in his house, something that’s seen as a requirement to function in this society
- The availability of games is only growing (iPhone, wireless internet, etc.)
- A greater variety of games is released every year
- Game interface is ever changing; who could’ve imagined the Wii a few years back? or the Natal?
- Integration of gaming in our daily lives; friends meeting on WoW or for a game of FIFA is not strange or uncommon anymore
ESWC bankruptcy; three in a row
At March 30th, a French courthouse declares Game-Services’ bankruptcy. Game-Services is the organiser of world-renowned Electronic Sports World Cup. Earlier I wrote about the demise of both CPL en CGS, and it seems the worst is not behind us.