Wired

May, 1998

Let The Games BeginIf you've been making demon meat out of the competition in online rounds of Doom or Quake, it may be time to go pro. A newly formed organization called the AMD Professional Gamers' League plans to dole out more than $250,000 in cash and prizes each year to champions of the hottest Net games. Of course, if cash and swag aren't incentive enough, you could also get your mug on television. The quarterly PGL competitions--the most recent of which was held at Gameworks in Seattle--a...