The Championship Gaming Series, founded in 2007 to be the chief competitor to Major League Gaming, has announced that they will be shutting down operations effective immediately.
A large number of Team Ninja employees are reported to have left Tecmo following Itagaki's walkout earlier this month, according to rumours.It is reported that "as many as three dozen" Team Ninja employees have done a runner and, to make things worse for Tecmo, also plan to take the company to court over unpaid bonuses for completed games.Things got nasty early this month when Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu ...
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The Championship Gaming series have today confirmed that Dead or Alive 4 and Forza Motorsport 2 will be the two Xbox 360 titles represented for their upcoming 2008 televised season...
Competing against more than 700 gamers from a record 74 countries, the United States overcame the toughest competition in World Cyber Games (WCG) history to capture three gold medals, two silver medals, and a bronze medal in twelve PC and Xbox 360 titles, and won the overall team championship at the Grand Final in Seattle.
Editor's note: John Gaudiosi writes the "Gaming Guru" blog for WRAL.com.
Directly from the Championship Gaming Series website the regular season is slated to begin on June 27. The players will be arriving in Los Angeles in the next few days and begin a month of preparation and competition to determine the Region 1 Champion. There will be several ways during the season to catch the action. In week 1 the matches will be covered by http://www.thecgs.com. You can come to the CGS website for up to the minute scores, video on demand and player reactions. Week 2 will be broadband week, where all matches will be streamed live on thecgs.com. Starting week 3 the matches will air live on DirecTV's channel 101. The full schedule can be found after the jump.
DIRECTV announced today that the the second U.S. Championship Gaming Invitational will air Feb. 10 and 11, on DIRECTV's The 101. Gaming legend Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel will capture the action as the exclusive play-by-play commentator and global league spokesperson and advisor.
Major Nelson just released on his blog the top Xbox Live games of 2006
Tecmo today announced that Dead or Alive 4, their popular fighting game for Xbox 360 consoles, sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Currently the game is available for an average price of $30, a nice opportunity if you haven't had the chance to try the game out yet.
There's so much pre-rendered content in Dead Or Alive X2 that it's filled up an entire DVD, according to Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki.
Microsoft has announced that starting August 14th, and ending September 22nd, gamers will be able to get a free game with their purchase of an Xbox 360. When a system, either Core or Premium, is purchased a gamer will be able to pick from Project Gotham Racing 3, Kameo: Elements of Power, Perfect Dark Zero or Dead or Alive 4.
Here are the Top 20 best selling Xbox 360 titles in Japan, as of June 20, 2006. 144,847 units of Xbox 360 were sold in Japan since its launch in December 2005: