CES: DIRECTV starts "Massive Gaming League"

Place cameras in an actual videogame?! They can do that!? DirecTV is some kind of sorceror.

Game?Z week.





What the hell, MTV?

A bit off subject but Dish Network interactive Tv games are getting rather good.Even close to Xbox arcade quality.indeed it's witchcraft

The day is probably going to come soon that cyberathletes are making six and seven figure salaries with the increase of these gaming leagues.



My hope is that it doesn't push the small place that does local events right out the door and hinder people from participating in these smaller less competitive events.

Sense: think of a gamer spectating in Quake / UT / CS but send the video direct to the broacasting equipment / video mixer. Any game with spectating capabilities will work :-)

Even G4 doesn't see how big competitive e-sports gaming will become.

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Techno!



How they gonna do it?!? And... Who's going to watch? Seems a bit early to try to pull this off, but maybe the ol' "Build it and they will Subscribe&Watch" addage will apply. A bit mangled there, a 'sorry' to all you fans of "The Natural."

Back when Tribes 1 was big, I did a lot of broadcasting for WSBN. In that is was more of a radio cast. I would be in observer mode and cast the events like a sporting event, it was great. They tried Tribes TV, but it was buggy and never really took off. Anyways, I imagine thats what it would be, sort of an "observer mode", not really placing cameras. I am curious to see if it will take off here. I know the T1 casts were very popular, it wouldnt be uncommon to have over 150 listeners for a top match.

This is interesting for some of us. TSN, the online group I have been with since 2001, has been doing this very thing online for years, well since 1999.



The comment on MTV doing the CPL this past winter in New York was actually us, TSN, covering the event while MTV Overdrive aired it for us.



E-Sports coverage has been going on for years.



Madcat, haven't seen you in ages.

Kevin,



Are you saying TSN stole DirecTV's 'new' technology and used a time machine to take it back to 1999?



This 'new' technology has been announced a number of times over the years. And yes, TSN and others have been broadcasting with in game cameras and interviews etc. for a long time.