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Street Fighter IV has been added to Virgin Gaming’s real-money multiplayer roster. PS3 and Xbox 360 players are now able to compete for cash via the service in 1v1 battles in 32-player leagues. It involves a relatively convoluted process requiring use of both the Virgin website and in-game menu system, …
Read More »Virgin Gaming launching subscription e-sports service
A new subscription service has been unveiled by e-sports brand Virgin Gaming. VentureBeat reports that Virgin Premium will cost $4.99 per month. For that users can enter competitive multiplayer tournaments without the need to surrender a portion of their winnings, as is the way with the current offer. Subscribers are …
Read More »Momentum builds behind Virgin Gaming UK service
Virgin’s competitive gaming venture is determined to expand its UK userbase. The service, which allows consumers to play games online to win money, was launched in the US in 2010 and the UK on October 5th this year. We saw the demand for FIFA in North America, and obviously the …
Read More »Virgin Gaming reveals $1.6m Battlefield 3 tournament
Virgin Gaming has teamed up with EA for the most lucrative tournament so far. The firms are offering $1.6m to the winner of the Battlefield 3 Worldwide Conquest Tournament, which kicks off from next year. It will culminate in a live grand finale. You can read more about it at …
Read More »Virgin Gaming ups prize fund to £2.6m
A whopping €3m (2.6m) in prizes can be won by Virgin Gaming members this year. It’s a huge increase over the tournament firm’s first year, where $1m (620,000) in prizes was on offer. The company says key to its ability to increase the prize fund is its new Series Tournaments. …
Read More »Virgin inks EA Sports deal
Virgin Gaming is now the official provider of online tournaments for EA Sports. Virgin’s tournament platform will now integrate directly with certain EA Sports titles, it will offer community tools and web functionality for competitive play across Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. The first tournaments will begin early this year …
Read More »Virgin Gaming partners with Ubisoft
Virgin Gaming has announced a new partnership with Ubisoft. The new games venture from Sir Richard Branson will be the online tournament provider for some of the publisher’s biggest multiplayer console titles, starting with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Ubisoft is one of the leading video game publishers in …
Read More »Branson backs BP, but new Virgin Gaming isnt British
Virgin Gaming is an ‘international company’ says Sir Richard Branson, but insists he’s still proud to be British and defends BP from Obama’s ‘tarring and feathering’. Speaking exclusively to MCV, Branson noted the anti-British climate in the US right now, following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Thankfully, however, Virgin Gaming …
Read More »E3 2010 Day One – Miss anything?
Although the actual Expo itself doesn’t start until later today, yesterday E3 was opened in spectacular fashion, with Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and Virgin press conferences. Between them a raft of new hardware, online services and original games were unveiled. And MCV has been reporting on every single detail. But if …
Read More »E3 2010: Virgin Gaming goes public
Remember, folks, you heard it here first. Virgin Gaming came out of stealth mode last night in an understated LA E3 press conference that detailed Richard Branson’s plan to carve a new space in the games industry. And as we exclusively revealed last month the Virgin Gaming brand will head …
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