Call Sign September 2011
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On behalf of all Call Sign gamers, DaC's Jon Winterburn asks...
Gaming:
What's worth playing?
XBOX and PS3 games (including Call of
Duty: Black Ops, SOCOM 4 and Halo Reach,
to name just a few).
Just like StarCraft 2, anyone can play
these games and anyone can enter the
leagues. However, to be able to compete at
the top, you have to work your way up the
Gaming as a Sport:
ranks and defeat all the competition and
there is some stiff competition out there!
eSports
But even if you're not into playing games
or just not championship material, you can
In previous months, I've talked about games
still enjoy watching the professionals and
on different platforms from the sole per-
Battling in StarCraft 2
listen to the commentators in much the
spective of an active gamer. This month, I
same way as you might watch professional
thought I'd introduce you to something that
do people play this addictive game for a liv-
league football. As a gamer, I've picked up
some of you might find incredible to believe
ing, but that these games are organised into
many tricks and tips from watching these
exists; televised professional online gaming
structured, televised tournaments where the
matches.
(better known as eSports).
winners take away big cash prizes!
Considering I work with computers all the
I came across this phenomenon recently
Coincidentally, Blizzard was televising the
time at Dial-a-Cab, I shouldn't have been
when I started playing a new PC game by
European StarCraft 2 championships in
surprised by the size of the professional
Blizzard (the makers of World of Warcraft)
Poland that same weekend, so I spent some
gaming community. As the only sports cur-
called StarCraft 2. This is an online, real-
time watching the big boys playing. It was
rently on TV are traditional physical sports,
time strategy game based in the far future
an amazing experience seeing professional
I suppose I never thought I'd see the day
and involves managing resources and
gamers fight it out against each other for the
that gaming could enter the same arena. It
armoured units to protect your base and
trophy (and the cash)! Some of these guys
conquer your enemy by destroying their
seems that whilst eSports is not yet broad-
practice 8 hours a day and complete up to
base. If you're a PC gamer, I highly recom-
casting on television networks (it's limited
400 actions per minute during a game
mend StarCraft 2; you can play the starter
to the Internet), due to the rapidly growing
imagine playing computer games for a liv-
edition for free. Take a look:
ing!
member base it's only a matter of time
https://us.battle.net/account/sc2/star
After doing some more digging around, I
before this phenomenon comes into the
ter-edition
came across the Major League Gaming web-
mainstream media.
Jon Winterburn
Anyway, during the process of playing
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DaC Network Administrator
StarCraft 2, I began to realise that not only
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