Worldwide PS3®, XBOX® single-elimination bracket competitions begin today.
(1888PressRelease) December 14, 2009 - Elmsford, N.Y., – Turtle Beach, the leaders in premium XBOX 360® headsets, announced it is sponsoring two online competitive video game tournaments on 360igame.com and ps3leaderboard.com that run between December 14, 2009 and January 30, 2010. More than 500 gamers will participate in single-elimination bracket competitions for teams (4v4) and individuals on the popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 title on the PS3 and XBOX platforms.
“The popularity of online tournament play and the chance to work with 360igame and ps3leaderboard makes this a great opportunity for us to connect with and support the competitive and casual gaming communities,” says Peter Ronick, Director of Marketing, Turtle Beach. “Once they experience our Ear Force headsets for XBOX and PS3, we are confident these gamers will want to take our gear into battle.”
Turtle Beach’s latest gaming headsets include the Ear Force X41, Ear Force X31 and Ear Force XLC for XBOX and the Ear Force P21 for PS3.
360igame.com, created by Delta Beta Lambda Fraternity, the world’s first video game fraternal organization, is a social network developed by gamers for gamers to enhance the online gaming experience. Ps3leaderboard.com is the leading independently-owned online battles site on the Web. The tournaments are part of the organization’s “Let The Kids Play Games” multiphase fundraising campaign for its technology and educational initiatives.
“We are very pleased to have the support of Turtle Beach, premier maker of video game headsets for all gaming platforms, for our Let The Kids Play Games initiative,” said Eric Whiteside, Project Manager, Delta Beta Lambda Fraternity. “We see this as the beginning of a great partnership from which many will benefit for years to come.”
About Turtle Beach
Voyetra Turtle Beach (www.turtlebeach.com) designs and markets high-quality audio peripherals for PC and video game platforms under the Turtle Beach brand, including its growing line of Ear Force gaming headsets and headphones for XBOX, PS3 and Nintendo game consoles and for personal computer games. Turtle Beach, with headquarters in Elmsford, New York, is a brand of Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. which has been at the forefront of music and audio technology for more than three decades and is recognized as a pioneer of today’s PC audio and gaming headphone industry. Turtle Beach, Voyetra, Ear Force and Chat Boost are trademarks or registered trademarks of Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. XBOX is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Corp. Dolby is a registered trademark of Dolby Labs. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged.
About Delta Beta Lambda and Let The Kids Play Games Campaign
Delta Beta Lambda Fraternity (www.deltabetalambda.com) is a registered South Carolina charitable organization that provides positive experience for children participating in online games and is the world’s first video game fraternal organization. The organization seeks to expand to local colleges and universities recruiting the top technology students as members to support their community service initiatives. The organization further seeks to provide technology access programs to DepriTech youth, a term created by the organizations sister organization Delta Beta Lambda Foundation (www.technologykids.org) which translates to” Deprived of Technology: any individual, social class or economic class of individuals who are deprived of technology in such a manner that it may inhibit the personal, business, or professional growth or advancement of the individual or class of individuals”. The organization will start this year “The Let the Kids Play Games Campaign Phase I” which will be a continued multiphase fundraising drive to raise needed funds for the organizations initiatives.