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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive League Coming to TBS

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TBS is going full-on into the world of esports, as Variety reveals that they’re going to air competitions of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive via a league of their own creation. With up to 20 events being aired throughout the year. “This is a way to bring e-sports to light and the 90 million homes TBS is in,” said TBS president Lenny Daniels. “There’s no doubt in our mind that this is a sport – these are athletes… It’s competitive, and it requires endurance,” he said. “What hasn’t happened is that it hasn’t been exposed to a mainstream audience.” Daniels also said working with an existing eSports league “didn’t make sense” with the companies’ resources but he did not reveal the dollar amount invested in the league. He did say contestants would be competing for “meaningful prize money.” This isn’t the first time that esports have been on national television, G4 did it when it was on the air, and even ESPN2 did a run of showing off Heroes of the Storm,

Valve Uncertain About an International Counter-Strike Tournament

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In case you didn’t hear the other day, an international Dota 2 championship tournament was held, with the winners getting millions of dollars (the total pot was $18 million). This proved emphatically the level of desire and skill in video game tournaments. Given it’s success, you’d think that more tournaments, especially ones with highly played titles, would be brought up as soon as possible. But for Valve, their second most played game, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, is still without a tournament. Valve’s Erik Johnson did note that Counter-Strike could be coming to the Source 2 engine soon, but when asked about when a tournament would happen, he noted to IGN, “I don’t know that it has to be coming.” “We’re pretty comfortable with different projects taking different approaches to solve similar problems,” he explained. “As a company we actually learn more when we do that. If we all point everything in the same direction, we’d have a real blind spot for when we’re screwing up. In some ways, you want to diversify

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Announced

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Announced

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Valve has just announced a brand new Counter Strike game titles Global Offensive. The game is set to release on PC and MAc on Steam and PSN and Xbox Live. No word whether or not the PSN version will have steam cross-play connectivity. The game is targeted for an early 2012 release. Hit the jump for the full details on the game.