My son and his best friend have launched their new blog, MLG Bound, which chronicles their journey towards becoming professional Halo 3 players. We had fun this weekend plugging my laptop into the big screen in the living room and watching the Halo 3 matches from MLG Anaheim. I have to say that even though I stink at Halo myself (I’m happy if I get one kill in a game), I found watching the matches much more exciting than I expected.
I think pro video gaming is a huge growth area. Consider that on any given night, there are over 200,000 people playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live simultaneously. Over 5,000 of those are on the MLG lists. Think there’s a market there? And it’s only getting bigger.
Now to just figure out how to tap into it… any ideas?