Samsung, Indiagames to launch World Cyber Games

Indiagames and Samsung India have announced the launch of the World Cyber Games 2007 (WCG 2007).

This event presented by Samsung India is being organised by Indiagames in Delhi, Kolkatta, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai this year with the Semi Finals and the India Finals being played at Mumbai on 10 September.


WCG is a computer gaming event designed to build a healthy cyber culture. The best gamers around the world gather in various cities to share the excitement and fun of the game tournaments.

The World Cyber Games (WCG) have been promoted on the lines of the International Olympic movement. Samsung Electronics is the main sponsor for the WCG in over 70 countries this year. The winners from each of the 70 countries will compete at the WCG finals being held at Seattle.

The WCG 2007 includes the following team as well as individual games - Counter Strike 1.6 (5 member team game), Warcraft III , FIFA Soccer 2007 , Need for Speed , Age of Empires III and Project Gotham Racing. “Gaming is emerging as a very strong entertainment platform across the world , especially amongst the youth and the World Cyber Games , with its Slogan of ‘Beyond the Game’ seeks to promote a healthy cyber culture .Samsung aims to utilize this e-sports platform to help fuel the development of the gaming industry in India , as well as globally” states Mr Harry Ahn, VP-IT, Samsung India Electronics.

Each of the four city preliminary WCG events will have cash rewards for the Top 4 positions along with USB Drives and 1 GB RAM memory card from Kingston and Games CDs and Adidas T Shirts to city runners up from Microsoft. Samsung will also provide T Shirts and Jackets to the City and National Winners as well as provide an all expense paid trip to World Finals of WCG 2007 at Seattle for the National winning team.


Samsung’s Myst, Mendel and Mobius series of LCD Monitors serve as the optimal display solution for gaming on account of their world best image quality, very low response time and superior contrast ratios. The Mendel series of Samsung monitors, available in 19” (932 B), 20” (206 BW) and 22” (226 BW) screen sizes, have a 16:10 Wide Format, a soft minimalist design and a response time as low as 2ms. The Samsung Mendel series of LCD Monitors are optimized for Windows Vista software.
The Samsung ‘Mobius’ LCD Monitor, available in 19” (971P) is unique both on account of its design – it comes with a triple hinge stand – and its performance. It offers superior image quality and contrast ratio of 1500:1, supports 16.7 million colours and has a response time of 6ms. Samsung’s ‘Myst’ series of LCD Monitors scores on account of its unique design – it comes with a soft minimal (bolt-less) design, with a New Ball Hinge mechanism – and offers a response time of 5ms and Contrast ratio of 700:1.

Samsung is giving offers on its LCD Monitors. Samsung India VP IT Sanjay Sharma says, “WCG 2007 provides us with a perfect platform, not only to reach out to gaming aficionados but also showcase our leading technology products to our young consumers.”

The MagicBright technology in Samsung Eye Fresh Technology (EFT) monitors allows for change in screen brightness to suit multiple applications. The technology offers specialized settings for four highly used applications – Movie Mode; Game mode; Internet mode & Text mode.

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