Bizarrely huge cash prizes and first-hands-on tournaments on a massive scale seem to be the order of the next generation of video game releases. Dota 2’s ‘International’ was a huge success (congratulations to Ukrainian World Champions, Na’Vi for their million dollar victory, by the way) and Activision is wasting no time recreating the event in their image for the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 this weekend.
International qualifiers are being held all over, with the top teams earning one of 28 invitations to the party, while the remaining 4 invitations will be available at the doors where left behind scrubs will get cut-throat, playing one last tournament for a chance to get inside. Once again, when the smoke clears and the last bullet flies, there will be a cool million dollars awarded to the grand champion. This party, however, will rock just a bit harder, as Activision has secured Boston’s Dropkick Murphys to open their party with a performance. Strangely, Kanye West will also be in attendance, performing some kind of concert at the end of the event.
It seems like only last month being excited about a new game meant getting rained on outside a retail game store until midnight. This recent trend toward massive parties where the Dropkick Murphys belt their songs out angrily over a massive pit of mercenaries shooting each other down for a life-changing pile of money should fill my fellow gamers with more than a little excitement.
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