Tag Archives: MLG

Major League Gaming boasts a busy broascast schedule during autumn, with Prizefights and Invitationals every week.

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Halo 4 releases on November 6, but if you happen to be a pro-level player, you could check it out four days before that. Oh, don’t pretend you’re not excited.

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Two League of Legends teams have lost their prize money after accusations of collusion.

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Major League Gaming’s summer championship is gearing up for kick-off over in Raleigh, North Carolina August 24-26. With a prize purse of around $215,000 and including games like StarCraft 2, Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur 5, it promises to be a barn burner.

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Major League Gaming has announced its Summer Fight Arena, which will see top players brawling it out in Soul Calibur 5 and Mortal Kombat for glory.

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Yesterday marked the start of the first Major League Gaming’s Summer League of Legends Arena in new York City, and more rounds continue today, starting at 2.00pm EDT. The first match, will take place between Europeans Team Black and the Koran team, Azubu Blaze, and the second match starts at 4.30pm between the North American teams Curse vs. SoloMid. Tomorrow, August 5, Azubu Blaze vs Curse takes place at 10.00am, while the SoloMid vs Black match will start at 12.30pm. The final will take place at 3.00pm, and the winning team in the final will walk home with $10,000. You can watch it live here.

Both the Korean eSports Association and Major League Gaming CEO Sundance DiGiovanni want to find ways to ensure audiences around the world have someone to cheer for during championship events.

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There’s just one slot open in Major League Gaming’s Summer League of Legends Arena, so you can bet competition will be fierce – so it’s a good thing the last qualifier will be livestreamed.

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Major League Gaming’s first StarCraft II Summer Arena has drawn to a close with a Korean visitor smacking down the competition to take a hefty purse.

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MLG has announced its Spring Championship held in Anaheim over E3 weekend garnered over 4.7 million unique online viewers compared to the 3.5 million unique viewers which tuned in for all 2011 Pro Circuit weekends combined.

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The MLG Spring Championship in Anaheim, CA kicked off yesterday, marking the beginning of the KeSPA and MLG multi-year, exclusive StarCraft partnership.

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Major League Gaming and the Korean eSports Association have announced an exclusive multi-year global partnership which will merge the western and Korean StarCraft competitions. As part of the collaboration, KeSPA players will compete in US MLG events for the first time in eSports history. The partnership kicks off during the MLG Spring Championship in Anaheim, CA on June 9 where KeSPA Pro players will compete in a StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty tournament. Participants from the top KeSPA teams will be selected and are to be announced in the coming weeks. The exposition match and the entire Spring Championship will be broadcast live online via MLG. The Spring Championship runs June 8-10. Thanks, Talkar.

With Starkhawk out today in North America, Sony and Lightbox Interactive has used the opportunity to announce a Major League Gaming tournament worth $20,000 in prizes. To find out how to compete, visit the official page for the game over on MLG. It was also announced that all map packs for Starhawk will be free upon release, and the fist one is already in the works. Very early sketches from the new planet of Cypress, which will be part of the DLC, can be found over on the US PS Blog. Paid DLC content will also be released in the future. Launch trailer is below. Game’s out Friday in the UK.

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Hot on the heels of the World Cyber Games reformat, Major League Gaming in venturing into the mobile space.

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Blizzard has announced it will offer a beta sneak peek of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm to those attending Major League Gaming’s Pro Circuit Spring Championship event. Taking place June 8-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center, public demo stations will allow attendees to try out the latest multiplayer build of the upcoming beta test. During the event, StarCraft II pro-gamers will battle for $76,000 in prize money with the first place finisher taking home $25,000. In addition, the USA national finals for the StarCraft II World Championship Series will take place. Participants will be competing for $30,000 as well as invitations to the North America continental finals. The top finishers in that event will represent their countries at the Battle.net World Championship event in Asia. For more information, hit up the links.

Major League Gaming has announced Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur V players will be competing live on April 28 in the Fighting Game Arena, during which 16 players will vie for a position in the top eight and $3,400 in prizes. The competition will be broadcast live online from 2.00-9.45pm EDT through the MLG website. Following the Arena, the season will culminate with the Spring Championship June 8-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Here, top gamers will compete playing Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur V, and King of Fighters XIII on PS3. Format details, prizing, rules and competition formats for each game will be announced in the coming weeks.

The western world’s largest competitive gaming league has joined forces with CBS Interactive.

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Some of the new events in this year’s Major League Gaming calendar will only be streamed to those who pony up a premium.

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The MLG Pro Circuit’s most favoured shooter franchise is back in action.

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No rest for the wicked-ly good at games: The world’s largest eSports league is ready to leap into a new year of action.

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