Swedes win pro-gaming tournament

By David Becker
Staff Writer, CNET News

Swedish team NIP took the top prize of $50,000 over the weekend at the world championships of the Cyberathlete Professional League, the leading promoter in the nascent field of professional gaming. NIP beat U.S. team Xtreme3 in the shooting game "Half Life: Counter Strike," according to the league. Other major winners at the Dallas event included league champion Jonathan "Fatality" Wendel, who received a new Ford Focus for placing first in "Aliens vs. Predator 2."

Latest tech news headlines

Note to hospitals: The pen is mightier than the data entry worker
Posted in News - Health Tech by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

November 26, 2009 5:00 AM PST
Big changes in Security Starter Kit 2010
Posted in The Download Blog by Seth Rosenblatt

November 25, 2009 3:51 PM PST
AT&T gets Luke Wilson to hit Verizon again
Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk

November 25, 2009 3:35 PM PST
See all headlines

RSS Feeds

Add headlines from CNET News to your homepage or feedreader.

More feeds available in our RSS feed index.

Markets: Market news, charts, SEC filings, and more; Related quotes; Dow Jones Industrials (0.00%) 0.00 10,464.40; S&P 500 (0.45%) 4.98 1,110.63; NASDAQ (0.32%) 6.87 2,176.05; CNET TECH (0.21%) 3.29 1,601.96

Inside CNET News

Scroll Left Scroll Right

Deep Tech
Why to embrace Firefox 3.6's new-tab ethos
A change to how the new browser positions new tabs is subtle but good, especially as browsers rise in importance. But more work is needed in tab switching.
Gallery
Passive-aggressive gifts for tardy geeks (photos)
The Open Road
At its best, is open source unbeatable?
Open-source development, when it works, perhaps works so well and at such a frenetic pace that no proprietary vendor can hope to compete.
Beyond Binary
Windows 8 in 2012?
It's not clear what Microsoft's desktop plans are, but the Windows Server team included slides at PDC suggesting a new major release coming around 2012.
Video
Google Chrome OS demonstration
Technically Incorrect
AT&T gets Luke Wilson to hit Verizon again
Phone company continues to fight accusations that its 3G network is poor. One new spot uses the same strategy as the iPhone, featuring simultaneous voice and data.
Video
Google Chrome OS unveiling
Politics and Law
Confidential 9/11 pager messages disclosed
Glimpse into events of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks comes from pager messages that have been anonymously published on WikiLeaks.org.
Cutting Edge
CERN particle accelerator sees first collisions
Four days after its restart, the scientific work at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has headed "into new territory. It's been going quite remarkably fast."
Gallery
Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
Health Tech
Note to hospitals: The pen is mightier than the data entry worker
Shareable Ink is hoping to popularize a camera-in-a-pen that wirelessly transfers text written on paper to a remote database to better track such data as glucose levels.
The Car Tech blog
Looking under Nissan's Leaf
Nissan brings its Leaf all-electric car to CNET headquarters.