“WCG Ultimate Gamer” returns for another round
Season Two looks to knock out the “gamer” stereotype … as well as zombies and ninjas.
By Emily Mitchell
N00b.
If that word is familiar to you, then you either:
a) are a gamer
b) have an extremely close relative or friend who is a gamer
c) have been called this before (most likely by a gamer)
d) never want it to be spoken again. (as does the author of this piece.)
Yes, video gaming (and its lingo), has become a massive pop culture and economic phenomenon, and SyFy Channel’s WCG Ultimate Gamer chronicles it all.
The show is a combination of the Real World/ Road Rules Challenge and videogames. Twelve contestants (6 men and 6 women) live in a house together while competing against one another in both physical and video gaming challenges to become ‘The WCG Ultimate Gamer’, a title that includes $100,000 in cash, an “ultimate” Samsung electronics package, Alienware High-Performance gaming desktop called “The Aurora’, and the chance to represent at the World Cyber Games (aka the WCG).


NBC begins its coverage of the 2010 French Open tennis tournament from Roland Garros in Paris with third-round matches on Saturday, May 29, at 12pm ET.
The Memorial Day weekend tradition returns with the 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 from famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 30, at 1pm ET on ABC. IndyCar’s best will compete on the 2.5-mile rectangular oval for the Borg-Warner Trophy, including popular drivers Dario Franchitti, Danica Patrick, Dan Wheldon, Ryan Briscoe, Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, Graham Rahal and Marco Andretti. Also in the field (and starting in the pole position) will be Helio Castroneves, who beat tax evasion charges and then beat the field to win his third Indy 500 last year. Another win at Indy would put the Brazilian native in rare company of four-time race champs A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser. Here are the complete details from ESPN/ABC:

By Elaine Bergstrom

