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Microsoft to Sponsor WCG

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the xbox-only-entries dept.

xIcemanx writes "Microsoft has announced that it will be sponsoring the World Cyber Games through 2008, providing the world's largest e-sports competition with software, hardware, and marketing. let's hope this doesn't mean radical changes in the games we see at the championships."

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  1. Emergency Games by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least most of the contestants will be able to play Rock/Paper/Scissors if the Microsoft games aren't functional.

  2. Heart of Darkness by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Funny
    let's hope this doesn't mean radical changes in the games we see at the championships

    Of course not! Microsoft is in this out of the kindness of their pure heart.

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  3. Changes? Preposterous! by Ambiguous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...let's hope this doesn't mean radical changes in the games we see at the championships."

    There will only be one tiny little change. It will now be called the World XBox Games. But honest, it'll still be the WCG you know and love.

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  4. Re:e-sport? No. by suspected · · Score: 3, Funny

    We better inform chess players that their competitions were never considered a sport.

  5. Good exposure. by dapho · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is great for games like Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament. They will be getting more exposure from the public and might even go mainstream...

    1. Re:Good exposure. by kevmo · · Score: 3, Funny

      They aren't already mainstream?

      Satoshi, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm, meet Satoshi.

  6. In other news... by wbren · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Redhat was originally supposed to be the new WCG sponsor... until WCG realized they would have to limit competition to KAstroid and Othello.

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  7. The games: by DanTheLewis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Steve Ballmer Forever: This wisecracking, balding hero takes trusty chair in hand in order to fight off the Googly-eyed hordes.

    Whack-a-Who-da-punk: Hit a person with no face before they destroy Microsoft from within by engaging in serious discussions about the relative inadequacy of the bloated management structure.

    Windows Vista: TBA.

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  8. Re:Fun! by tonsofpcs · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll play you in broodwar, lets go, 1 on 1, my 80586/133 vs your ultra overloaded PC.

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  9. It's about time! by seven+of+five · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am so happy to see Microsoft finally doing some marketing. It's been so frustrating, watching their products go unnoticed for so long....

  10. Re:Fun! by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny
    We make the challenges, set the pot, and go at it.

    Yeah, pot plays a role in my gameplaying too.

    -Eric

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