Game Battles

Game Battles
Game Battles, http://gamebattles.com/, is an online competitive extension of MLG. It is used for people to compete against other people all over the world in dozens of different games. Since many people do not have the money or time to go to a MLG completion they can still compete competitively online. Players are responsible for setting up their own matches with other teams and finding their own teammates. Game Battles is a service that keeps track of information that professional video game players record from matches they record against other teams. Anyone can sign up and compete with Game Battles it is a fun way for an average Joe to compete in video games.

MLG World of Warcraft

MLG World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft or better known as wow is the largest multiply massive online role playing game in the world. Millions of people play World of Warcraft everyday and it also has a large competitive atmosphere to it. MLG has begun hosting World of Warcraft tournaments. In these tournaments players compete in teams or solo and use their mythical elves and trolls to battle each other. Due to wow’s large success it has become a large foundation of MLG but Blizzard the company that runs and created World of Warcraft also has its own online competitive tournaments and seasons.

MLG 2009 Pro Circuit

MLG 2009 Pro Circuit

Major Leauge Gaming has announced the new season with competitions and tournaments for the year. The first stop will be in The Meadowlands New Jersey, April 3rd-5th and will include the league's flagship game, HALO 3 and the league's debut of Gears of War 2 for the Xbox 360. MLG has many other stops on the season.

Just Another Day

Just Another Day

Typical work days are eight hours a day and 40 hours a week Monday through Friday but to be professional video gamer the hours can be exhausting. To become a professional video gamer requires dedication and hundreds and thousands of hours playing games and honing your skills. Typically MLG teams practice almost every day for long sessions that can range up to twelve hours or more before tournaments. After tournaments players may also sleep for sixteen hours a day also. This type of dedication is what makes them the best. A professional athlete spends hundreds of hours working on the perfect jump shot or the right swimming technique. Professional video gamers are no different they spend a tedious amount of time and small details to make their skills superb to all others.

Professional Gamers

Professional Gamers

MLG is a large franchise with many fans and professional gamers which are associated with it. The professional players and MLG are also highly endorsed by companies such as Dr. Pepper and many other powerful f corporations.

Two of the most well known professional gamers are most likely Tom Taylor aka Tsquared and also David Walsh, Walshey. Other notable MLG players are ogre1 and ogre2 which are twins and are both premier players in Halo 3.

Walshy and Tsquared both are largely endorsed by Red Bull and Dr Pepper respectively. Many professional gamers are endorsed much like NASCAR racers are and its how they make money to do what they do.

Many MLG players also have personal blogs with information about them and their team this information is available at http://www.mlgpro.com/content/page/145655/Top-MLG-Pro-Blogs.

Winning tournaments is another way that professional gamers make their living. Many of these tournaments can pay out large prizes to the winning team. Most players though are not rich because of their choice to be a professional gamer.

Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4 is another excellent first person shooter that is played on both the Xbox 360 and personnel computer and one of the older games played in MLG. The Call of Duty franchise has been very popular in the past and the release of Call of Duty 4 was possibly their biggest achievement to date. One of the big reasons of Call of Duty’s popularity is its online play as is important for any successful first person shooter.

Call of Duty 4 breaks free from the typical Call of Duty game in the aspect that it is based upon modern warfare instead of the previous games which were all based around World War II. MLG is not a huge outlook for Call of Duty 4 because of the success of other first person shooters such as Halo 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2. More recently Call of Duty shipped their newest game Call of Duty World at War and it has also become a MLG game that supports professional gaming.

Gears of War 2

Gears of War 2

One of the newer professional games for MLG is Gears of War 2. This popular Sci Fi first person shooter is set in the future where an evil society of monsters known as the Locust have come to wipe humanity from the face of the earth. This game is a third person shooter and offers a variety of game types and maps for which players to compete against each other on.

The standard game types of slayer and capture the flag are available for players but Gears of War 2 offers other unique game types such as Horde, where a group of players are faced off against wave and wave of computer opponents. Gears of War 2 is played on the Xbox 360 console and MLG has a regular season for professional players to compete in as well as several tournaments throughout the regular season.