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Major League Gaming was founded in 2002 by Sundance DiGiovanni [14] and Mike Sepso. [5] [15] In 2006, MLG became the first televised video game console gaming league in the United States, with their Halo 2 Pro Series being broadcast by USA Network on Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit. [16] It moved into the 3 Park Avenue sometime after its founding.
The MLG 2015 World Finals took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on October 16–18, 2015. The event featured five games, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare , Dota 2 , Smite , Super Smash Bros. Melee , and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U .
MLG Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship: Columbus, also referred to as MLG Columbus 2016 [1] was the eighth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major Championship held by Major League Gaming (MLG) throughout March 29 to April 3, 2016, in the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, United States. [2]
In 2005, the company released its first Ear Force gaming headset model, the AXP. The headset was geared toward computer gamers. [14] Over the following years, the company began focusing primarily on its lines of PC and console gaming headsets, steering away from sound cards almost completely (it did release updated versions of the Audio Advantage USB sound cards in 2010). [15]
In September 2015, Major League Gaming (MLG) announced the first season of the Pro Rocket League, which was held in September through early October. [152] A $75,000 Rocket League tournament was held outside U.S. Bank Stadium at the Summer X Games in July 2017, [ 153 ] with the finals streamed live on ESPN3 . [ 154 ]
On February 23, 2016, with MLG Columbus 2016 coming up, Valve announced a permanent increase in the prize pool from US$250,000 to US$1,000,000. [20] [21] However, Valve reduced the number of Majors per year from three to two. Luminosity Gaming, a Brazilian team, won the event to becomes the first non-European team to win a Major. [22]
Headsets provide the equivalent functionality of a telephone handset with hands-free operation. Among applications for headsets, besides telephone use, are aviation, theatre or television studio intercom systems, and console or PC gaming. Headsets are made with either a single-earpiece (mono) or a double-earpiece (mono to both ears or stereo).
Steam Charts were introduced in September 2022 and publicly track the storefront's best-selling and most-played games, including historically by week and month. Charts replaced a previous statistics page to be more comprehensive, and features content that had previously been part of third-party websites including SteamSpy, SteamDB, and SteamCharts.