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Interview with Marketing Director of UGAME

Author: Nafiz Choudhury
Added on: April 19th '08

The past year socializing on Internet has become more and more famous through websites like MySpace and Facebook. A group of people have therefore been developing a social network website called UGAME for gamers on all platforms. We have contacted Niek Maas, the PR and Marketing Director of the company who lives in the Netherlands and took a year off his medical studies at University to work for this project.


Interview with eSTRO's Head Coach Dan...

April 30th '08

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Author: Nafiz Choudhury 

The Starcraft portal SCforall has published a video interview with the head coach Daniel Lee of the Korean eSports team eSTRO. The interview brings up different aspects of his team, how they stay in shape and he also shares his thoughts about Starcraft2 and professional gamers.  Lee is initi...

New Online Game Platform in Germany

April 28th '08

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Author: Nafiz Choudhury 

The launch of a new online gaming platform called VOIPlay Arena Deutschland in the German market have been announced. The company behind the launch of the new platform is Gamerock, the owners of the Swedish correspondence called Spelarenan. According to Gamerock they have 230 000 members and...

Turtle Entertainment Announce ESL Wire

April 24th '08

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Author: Nafiz Choudhury 

Turtle Entertainment, the German eSports company behind Electronic Sports League, announced a new game client application for their users called ESL Wire - an all-in-one solution for gamers according to ESL. The application consists of some core areas as:Game Lobbies - A lobby that will help...

CGS announces partnership with Eurosport

April 22nd '08

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Author: Aurelien Vana 

The Eurosport Group and Championship Gaming Series (CGS) announced today that Eurosport has signed a deal with BSkyB (Sky) that grants Eurosport exclusive European broadcast rights for the CGS. In addition, Eurosport also gains secondary broadcasting rights for the UK and Ireland as well as mobil...

ProGamers to carry the Olympic torch

April 17th '08

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Author: Aurelien Vana 

It has been announced that numerous Chinese professional gamers were to carry the Olympic torch to the 2008 Olympic Games' ceremony. Professional players such as Jae Ho “Moon” Jang and Li “Sky” Xiaofeng will be part of the torch relay, which began in Olympia, Greece (w...

Adidas Sponsors ENC 2008

April 17th '08

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Author: Nafiz Choudhury 

ESL announced a new partner for the European Nations Championships 2008. The new sponsor is the clothe company Adidas, famous for its sports collection and sponsorship with several top sports teams. ESL ENC is the third organisation Adidas is sponsoring in Europe as they joined forces with S...

Betting Site With Licence Launches

April 10th '08

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Author: Nafiz Choudhury 

Today it has been reported that a new eSports bookmaker - XLBet, will launch next week fully licensed and regulated in The Netherlands Antilles on the island of Curacao and owned by E-Zone Company XLBet N.V.  XLBet is founded by actors with experiences from the betting market and major unkno...

WCG Hosted in China Next Year

April 9th '08

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Author: Nafiz Choudhury 

World Cyber Games have announced the host city for next year's global event; WCG 2009 will be held in Chengdu, China. According to the official news the formal announcement will take place in Chengdu on April 23rd with officials from both parties involved in a signing ceremony.  As previ...