New sport – Electronic sport ? Competitive gaming has been around a long time on the PC with professional Starcraft leagues or tournaments for games like Quake and Counter-Strike. The Xbox 360 has made competitive gaming much more popular in recent years with the pro-gaming console league Major League Gaming, or MLG for short, and …
ESPN Exec is Bullish on 3D Uptake NEW YORK: For some perspective on 3DTV’s prospects, consider how ESPN HD launched in 2003 and how ESPN 3D will launch on June 11. ESPN HD launched in March 2003 on some of the smallest cable distributors, the likes of Comporium, Service Electric Cable TV and Utilacom, ESPN’s …
ESPN bets on World Cup spurring US soccer boom If U.S. soccer has developed over the years, American TV coverage of the World Cup has advanced even more. At the 2002 tournament in Japan and South Korea, ABC and ESPN didn’t even bother to televise six of the 64 games live because of the 13-hour …
ESPN and ABC expand World Cup coverage At ESPN’s offices in Bristol, Conn., a World Cup countdown clock is outdoors, clicking down the hours until the kickoff on June 11. Read more on AP via Yahoo! News