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Ever been interested in gaming online? Incredible Connection have posted an really in depth article called, a guide to online gaming. Online gaming is so popular that in places like Japan, Korea and even Europe, people are being paid to play computer games. Yes, you read that correctly, there are people who are professional computer game players. And did you know you can get South African Provincial and National Colours ...

[caption id="attachment_631" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Organised Chaos - Cape Town"] [/caption] I have been thinking about sports and the "sport" of online gaming. My own personal experience comes from Call of Duty 4, which is currently one of the largest and most stable competitive games played in South Africa. With roughly 50 teams competing online, it is anything but chaotic. AGASA, the powerhouse when it comes to competitive gaming in South Africa hosts different leagues and divisions splitting teams of similar skill and ability into groups of 12 teams playing online 3 times a year. The final of the online leagues is hosted at the premiere electronics expo rAge. For all intents and purposes this is a formal sporting event. Teams compete with set rules, in set matches and in certain time frames. Should teams or players digress on the rules they can be harshly punished. Just like any other competitive event, eSports functions run and operate under very similar pinciples. There are tournament specific rules and regulations and the particular tournament decides how to go about seeding teams that have entered and how best to represent the overall winner of the competition. However when you look at the definition of the word "sport", almost all the definitions include at least one phrase relating to physical activity and ability. Taken from freedictionary.com, "Physical Activity that is goverened by a set of rules..." With that in mind, can one look at computer or console games being classified as a sport? If you do some digging and googling it is difficult to find the definition of eSport or anything similar in any official recognised dictionary. Wikipedia however says this on the topic, Electronic sports, abbreviated e-sports or eSports, is used as a general term to describe the play of video games competitively. Other terms include competitive gaming, cybersports, cyber athletics (used by the CPL) and V-Sports (used by the GGL) These games which are considered electronic sports normally belong to the first-person shooter, real-time strategy, or sports game genres.

Three exciting new games are coming to Xbox Live Arcade today, once the scheduled Xbox Live maintenance is done: Rocket Riot, from previously-struggling publisher THQ, developed by CodeGlue. Sam & Max, the very popular adventure game from Telltale Games, and Magic: the Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers from developer Stainless Games. Rocket Riot is an ...

Acer's latest range of laptops named the Aspire Timeline, look great, give enough battery life for a full workday and doesn't compromise on performance or features. [caption id="attachment_613" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="The new Acer Aspire Timeline series of notebooks"][/caption] The Apsire Timeline series is part of a rapidly growing trend in notebooks that are larger than netbooks, but ...