World Cyber Games Kicks Off
News Release
WORLD CYBER GAMES
KICKS OFF - AND PREVIEWS
UPCOMING HIGH-END PROCESSOR FOR
GAMERS
Intel Sponsored Gamer from New Zealand Goes for Gold
AUCKLAND, Tuesday, October 14, 2003 – Intel, the only Gold Sponsor of the 2003 World Cyber Games - Korea (Seoul), has announced the start of the World Cyber Games competition, which has attracted more than 600 PC gamers from 55 countries worldwide. It also will host the first-ever “Intel® Pentium® 4 processor Extreme Edition Gaming Championship.”
Flying the flag for New Zealand will be Intel sponsored gamer, Nicholas McCabe (eVeNfLoW) who will compete in ‘Unreal Tournament 2003’ - an action packed game, depicting elite warriors in combat – which requires intense and prolonged concentration, rapid reaction skills and fast twitch reflexes. Nicholas achieved a third placing at World Cyber Games last year.
At the World Cyber Games there will also be the inaugural “Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition Gaming Championship” will be exclusive to WCG contestants – who will compete using high-performance PCs based on the upcoming Intel® Pentium® 4 processor Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz supporting Hyper-Threading Technology1.
The Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition 3.2 GHz supporting Hyper-Threading is a new processor Intel will introduce later this year and will be available in PCs targeted at high-end gamers and computing power users.
WCG, the Olympics of PC gaming competitions, is being held October 12-18 at the Olympic Park in Seoul. All WCG competitions in Seoul will be played on PCs powered by the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology. Intel also has sponsored, either through contractual agreements or funding travel to the games, more than 20 WCG players and/or teams from several countries and regions, including Chile, France, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
“It’s exciting to see how Asia is leading the gaming community,” said Timothy Bailey, Intel Desktop and Mobile Marketing Manager Asia Pacific. “This week’s winners will demonstrate that where the difference between life and death can be milliseconds, the Pentium 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology gives them the edge they need. As technologies continue to evolve, gamers at the forefront are demanding the power and better reliability that the Intel processor-based PCs deliver.”
Asia Pacific Gaming
Survey Results
Intel also unveiled today
the results of an online survey focused on PC gamers and
their demographics, gaming behaviour and playing
preferences. Key survey findings included:
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Demographics: About 97% of Asia Pacific gamers are men and
about 54% of Asia Pacific gamers are students. Gamers from
China are older than gamers from the rest of Asia, with more
than half of Chinese gamers surveyed are 21 to 25 years old
while about 59% of other Asia Pacific gamers are younger
than 21.
- Playing preferences: About 83% of Asia
Pacific gamers hone their skills on the PC at home.
Cyber-cafes were more popular in China and Malaysia than in
other parts of Asia Pacific, while LAN parties were most
popular in Australia, with 57% of Australian gamers playing
at LAN parties.
- Behavioural trends: Younger
gamers are more likely to play at cyber-cafes. About
one-third of Asia Pacific gamers who are older than 26 play
cyber-cafés, while about half of players 25 years old and
younger play at cyber-cafes.
The survey was sponsored by Intel and was conducted under the direction of Synovate, a global research company. Fieldwork was conducted June through August this year using a proprietary questionnaire that was available on WCG Web sites in five countries and regions. Survey participants were people who said they play PC games on a regular basis. The survey sample consisted of a total of 2,000 gamers.
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1Hyper-Threading Technology requires a computer system with an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting HT Technology and a HT Technology enabled chipset, BIOS and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. See www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading for more information including details on which processors support HT Technology.
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