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World Series of Gaming on CBS

Jason Preston · 1 min read ·

In a format that is undoubtedly going to be compared to Poker at least 300,000 times in the next five days, CBS is airing some footage from the World Series of Video Games tomorrow (today?) - Sunday, anyway - and I’m going to definitely check it out.

I don’t get G4TV and as a result, I really never get to see video game TV coverage. This is probably a good thing since I’m:

  1. A video geek

  2. A video game player

  3. An actor

which means that any video game TV I watch is likely to make me cringe because I think I could shoot it, play it, and host it better than some doofus on an actual cable channel.

I’m interested to see how many women are actually contestants.

But I’m mostly curious about the WoW coverage, since I’m not particularly into Fight Night and I already know that the Guitar Hero II footage is going to be sweet.

But WTF can you do for WoW? I’ve seen my fair share of cool videos, but they’re usually, like, short films. Are we going to watch a raid? Dmitri from Terra Nova at least seems to think we’re getting gameplay footage with commentary. That’s probably not too far off.

And speaking of WoW, on almost a complete tangent, I can’t help but share this sweet-ass video I ganked from Intelligent Artifice that lines up the in-game dance moves with their real-world sources: