![]() ![]() At Intel, Andy Grove had Moore’s Law and he said only the paranoid survive to help drive innovation at that company. ![]() We started 18 months ago with a set of volunteers. How have you seen IPL grow since you launched? There are so many things we can do with it, where the production value can marry traditional sports with eSports to attract a wider audience. The beauty of eSports is that it’s in such early stages that we can experiment a lot. There’s a great boxing ring at Mandalay Bay that we could set up and produce a fighter event and have the full experience that way. We hope to see similar levels of interest with these fighting games as the MMA has seen with mainstream viewers. We want to bring in the MMA world with this digital fighting tournament. It will bring in a lot of mainstream audiences. Street Fighter is great for casual fans because almost everyone knows that game. If you look at the spectrum of all the different eSports, some are easy to understand, but there are also some games on the other end of the spectrum with a lot of strategy involved, where if you don’t play the game, you don’t understand what’s going on. What impact do you hope the new fighting games that you’ve signed for IPL has on eSports in 2013 and beyond? David Ting, general manager of eSports for IGN Entertainment and founder of the IPL, talks about the growth potential for eSports in 2013 and explains why Call of Duty: Black Ops II may not be in the competitive picture in this exclusive interview. IGN Pro League 5 (IPL 5) marks the start-up league’s first foray into fighting games, having signed exclusive eSports deals with Capcom for Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken and Tecmo Koei for Dead or Alive 5. Approximately 5,000 fans of eSports have traveled to Las Vegas to watch four days of live pro gaming events at The Cosmpolitan Hotel and Casino. ![]()
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