World Cyber Games Unveils Official Games for 2005 Competition
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The World Cyber Games Committee announced eight game titles that will serve as official games for the World Cyber Games 2005 (WCG 2005) to be held in Singapore this coming November. Korea Culture and Tourism Minister Dong-chea Chung and Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman and CEO Jong-young Yun lead the WCGC committee. Based on the success of the WCG 2004 in San Francisco, the WCG 2005 Grand Final will be held in Singapore, with the active cooperation from the Singaporean Economic Development Board (EDB, a Singaporean government organization). ICM, the global organizer of the WCG, brings the world?s largest e-sports festival to the Asian IT hub in anticipation of attracting more than 800 players from 70 countries for the Grand Final this year.
Six PC games and two console games were chosen for the competition, which organizers expect to attract more than 1.25 million competitors worldwide. The official list of games includes: StarCraft: Brood War Warcraft III: Frozen Throne Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Counter Strike: Source FIFA 2005 Need for Speed: Underground 2 Halo 2 (Xbox) Dead or Alive: Ultimate (Xbox)
While the number of official WCG games remains the same, two titles from 2004, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Project Gotham Racing 2 were replaced with the Real Time Strategy PC game, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (aka Warhammer 40K), and the console-based action game, Dead or Alive: Ultimate. Dead or Alive: Ultimate is the first action title selected as an official WCG game.
The WCGC conducted online surveys of gamers, communities, and partners in many countries prior to making title selections. The committee also sought opinions from game experts with an aim to fully reflect preferences of gamers and trends in the world game market. Publishers? technical support in terms of event operability and fulfillment of sports spirit were also among the factors taken in to consideration.
-Red Dawg, GameVortex Communications AKA Alex Redmann
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