The three gaming tournaments to be broadcast include: World Series of Video Games, Microsoft’s PGR 3 Tourney and NC Soft’s Guild Wars Faction Competition.

WORLD SERIES OF VIDEO GAMES:
GAMEPLAY HD has sealed a deal with the World Series of Video Games (WSVG), a tournament series with events in the United States, Asia and Europe. An initiative of competition organizer Games Media Properties, WSVG is the first video-game competition circuit on multiple gaming platforms that culminates in final rounds to determine true world champions under standardized rules and procedures. Over the course of the tournament, $1 million will be distributed in cash and prizing.

The current agreement with GAMEPLAY HD includes coverage of the first three circuit events of the 2006 WSVG: the Lanwar competition in Louisville, KY (held June 16-19, 2006/air date September 13-15), DreamHack LAN party in Jonkoping, Sweden (held June 17-21, 2006 /air date September 28-29), the Intel Summer Championship in Dallas (held July 5-9, 2006/air date TBD).

MICROSOFT’S PGR 3 Online Tournament:
GAMEPLAY HD paired up with Microsoft® to create an unprecedented television event, with its coverage of the Project Gotham Racing 3 international online tournament. For the May 2006 online regionals, GAMEPLAY HD was allowed to tap into Xbox Live, Microsoft’s Xbox online game service, to create a virtual television studio, with eight simultaneous in-game cameras, feeds from live players, and a director calling the camera shots. The GAMEPLAY HD setup captured the full competitive fury and incredible graphics of Project Gotham Racing 3 in high definition and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound, as 192 players from Europe, Asia and North America (culled from an original 30,000 entrants) vied for survival. Then GAMEPLAY HD followed the finalists to Milan, Italy, where the concluding round was held at the Lamborghini factory.

The Project Gotham Racing 3 tournament show, which will include four hours of dramatic game highlights, analysis of the action, and interviews with players, will premiere August 16-19th.

NCsoft®’S GUILD WARS® WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
This month, GAMEPLAY HD has been airing all the drama of the first GUILD WARS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, taped in Taipei, Taiwan in February 2006. Now, NCsoft is teaming up with the channel once again for the next World Championship event, this time to be held in Germany on August 24th, with competitors vying for dominance in Guild Wars Factions™. The televised series is expected to reach air in October of 2006.

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