Because you can't spell "boredom stricken" without CBS. Thanks to that venerable network, you'll be able to watch gamers from across the globe play
Quake 4,
Guitar Hero 2,
Fight Night Round 3 and
World of Warcraft from the comfort of your couch in ... Video Game ARMAGEDDON! No, it's
the World Series of Video Games. But we can dream, right? The tournaments start filming soon and will air on four weekend days this year, the first being July 29. The play-by-play will be done by
Greg Amsinger, who two of you may know is returning after calling the WSVG Finals on College Sports Television.
We jest, but we'll probably end up checking it out. But we make no promises that we won't remember after five minutes that video games are fun to play and be forced to abandon the WSVG for more interactive pursuits. If you'd like to have your five minutes of fame, more information is available on the
WSVG Web site, though it seems to be having some troubles at the moment.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
tommy redd @ Jun 1st 2007 8:31AM
i'm sure i'll watch at least 10min of the first episode...i've always had some fantasy about playing Castlevania on a 20ft tall screen. they should throw in some really old school games like that.
Vince @ Jun 1st 2007 9:19AM
Why aren't they playing any real game? WoW? come on now.
Rob Accomando @ Jun 1st 2007 10:35AM
commercialized garbage. Pass
Phaty000 @ Jun 1st 2007 10:45AM
Those are terrible games to be playing in a competition, what the hell were they thinking?
Homer @ Jun 1st 2007 12:49PM
Elena stinks at Guitar Hero
Xeros606 @ Jun 1st 2007 1:06PM
are you sure you don't mean warcraft 3?
X_Arre @ Jun 1st 2007 5:22PM
Why are they playing WoW?
They need to have an SSBM tournament. THEN I would watch.
Abscissa @ Jun 1st 2007 6:34PM
Watching other people play games...Pass.
ddpp33 @ Jun 2nd 2007 3:50AM
When the readers of joystiq don't want to watch your show on videogames you've made a bad programming decision.