VIA Teams Up with Professional Gamer Ms.X on Competitive Gaming Website
VIA Competitive Gamers Arena managed by top professional female gamer Alana Reid, alias Ms.X from girlz 0f destruction, and targeted squarely at the burgeoning competitive gaming community
Taipei, Taiwan, 25 October 2005, - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today launched a new PC gaming community website, VIA Competitive Gamers Arena, managed and edited by Alana ‘Ms.X’ Reid, top professional gamer and co-founder of the leading female PC gaming team ‘girlz 0f destruction’.
With the world’s media spotlight on gaming as a highly competitive sport as well as an increasingly lucrative entertainment industry segment, VIA Competitive Gamers Arena provides an insider’s perspective of this exciting field, with results and coverage of major professional tournaments and events worldwide as well as gaming industry news and interviews with the top gaming contenders. “Given the tremendous growth in the competitive gaming market, we felt that a website that looks at the gaming industry from the point of the view of the professional gamer was a natural step at this time,” said Timothy Brown, Marketing Manager at VIA Technologies, Inc.
A leading competitor at many of the top PC gaming events, Ms.X’s experience makes her uniquely qualified to provide content on the competitive gaming community that will be of interest to all gamers looking to keep abreast of today’s fastest growing form of digital entertainment. “I’m really excited to be part of this unique opportunity,” she declared. “I believe I can offer an insightful, personal and passionate look at the competitive gaming scene that will be of interest to gamers who want the sort of information that will give them the best possible gaming experience.”
“Through our ‘Geared for Gaming’ campaign, VIA is proud to promote the growth of e-sports and the exciting events and personalities that are driving it to become a more mainstream sport,” continued Timothy Brown. “Ms.X represents the modern face of competitive gaming, and we are confident she will build an informed and enthusiastic gaming community through VIA Competitive Gamers Arena that will benefit both individual gamers and the PC gaming industry as a whole.”
