Top Kiwi Online Gaming Teams Unite For Super-Team

Top Kiwi online gaming teams unite to form new gaming super-team

Three of New Zealand's top online gaming teams Parallax, NewTypE and Online Gaming Addicts come together to form a new gaming consortium, Team SideWinder - sponsored by Microsoft New Zealand.

Set to take online gaming to a new level, Team SideWinder is the first company-sponsored gaming team to span multiple formats, games and genres in New Zealand.

Team SideWinder co-founder Russell Goulter says, "Working with Microsoft and joining with teams Parallax and NewTypE ensures growth and expandability into all formats and games. "We're aiming to become the biggest gaming team and community in NZ and having the backing of a corporate 'parent' like Microsoft will help us to achieve this goal."

The announcement coincides with Microsoft Hardware's 25th Anniversary, celebrating 25 years of design innovation as well as a new line-up of ground-breaking hardware products such as the SideWinder gaming mouse (available in November).

Microsoft New Zealand CPXG product marketing manager Danica Aitken says, "We're stoked about the new Team SideWinder gaming team. All three teams under the Team SideWinder umbrella are well-known in the Kiwi elite gaming community and we're very happy to support such a dedicated group of gamers."

The sponsorship enables the team to use the SideWinder brand and provides them with the best gaming gear Microsoft has to offer such as the SideWinder mouse, Reclusa keyboard and Habu mouse. The team will also represent Microsoft at premium gaming events such as xLAN 2008.

Together, Microsoft and Team SideWinder hope to promote online gaming in New Zealand and help support an already strong and growing community.

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