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3 CommentsVirgin Gaming launches Xbox Tournaments app on Xbox Live with $100K tournament
By Samit Sarkar on Apr 09, 2013 04.09.13
Competitive gaming company Virgin Gaming launched an Xbox Tournaments app on Xbox Live today, with plans to bring sports-based competitive gaming to Xbox 360 owners. The free app allows players to check out Virgin Gaming's Xbox Live tournaments, enter them, play in them and track their progress on the leaderboards. It's currently available in the U.S., Canada and U.K., and launch titles for its first tournament include EA Sports' Madden NFL 13, NHL 13 and FIFA 13, along with 2K Sports' NBA 2K13. According to Virgin Gaming, additional territories, games and features will be added to the app later. "Competitive online gaming is increasingly becoming an important component of the video games industry, and the Xbox Tournaments app allows us to bring engaging tournaments to a large and...
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2 CommentsEA Sports tournament draws in spectators like a real-life sporting event, says Virgin Gaming exec
By Samit Sarkar on Feb 18, 2013 02.18.13
The EA Sports Challenge Series has the potential to pull in spectators because it's an eSports tournament featuring sports games, said Virgin Gaming executive vice president Wim Stocks in an interview with Forbes. Virgin Gaming held the second annual Challenge Series in Las Vegas earlier this month; players competed for a $1 million prize pool in the PlayStation 3 versions of Madden NFL 13, FIFA 13 and NHL 13. More than 150,000 entrants took part in the tournament, with the finals in Las Vegas hosting 896 competitors trying to finish in the money. According to Stocks, the draw of a tournament like the Challenge Series is that as long as people understand the sports in question — football, soccer and hockey — they can follow the ups and downs of the competition. "People who watch...
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3 CommentsNHL 13 celebrates new season with trailer
By Tracey Lien on Jan 15, 2013 01.15.13
EA Sports is marking the beginning of a new NHL season with a trailer from its hockey game NHL 13, which was released in September 2012. The game is currently available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
