We are all equal when it comes to being gamers. Women just look better than you when doing it.

This news is huge!

[quote] Major League Gaming, the tournament league for professsional video game players, announced today it has cut a deal to use Electronic Arts‘ sports games in its major sponsored tournaments that are now drawing millions of viewers each month.

By hooking up with a huge game publisher like EA, MLG is broadening its audience and taking another step on the path toward proving that professional video game tournaments can be a money-generating spectator sport, even as some of its rivals have been driven out of business.

New York-based MLG will host the 2009 EA Sports Challenge series on the PlayStation 3 video game console, with sponsors including Best Buy and Sony. MLG has become the big professional video game players league in North America since it was founded in 2002. The company’s web site draws 9 million unique videos a month, and its video streams are watched by more than 600,000 people. The company also operates the GameBattles web site for amateur gamers.

Quit school to game? That was my dream in school. From Kotaku :

[quote] Unable to concentrate on school because she was up late at night, she dropped out to focus on her gaming and join Swedish team Pink Zinic full-time. She's also working as a model "for a friend".

This seems to be a nascent trend of late with a 16-year-old in Raleigh, N.C., whose parents have let him drop out of school so that he can focus on a professional gaming career via Guitar Hero.[/quote]