Consoles Sports League

Celebrating third birthday with jelly, ice cream and a €2,000 tournament.

News by GamesIndustry International Contributor

Published on May 15, 2009

Cologne, May, 15th 2009 – The Consoles Sports League celebrates its third birthday on May 16th and invites all console gamers to its birthday party. To celebrate, Consoles is organising Cups in Call of Duty 4, FIFA 09, Halo 3 and other videogames with more than 2,000 Euro in prize money in the upcoming weeks.

Further information about the Birthday Cups is available online: www.consoles.net/eu.

Since May 2006, Consoles Sports League has provided a multigaming platform with more than 30 different games for every gamer – Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3 or NDS. Additionally Consoles is shining in its renewed splendor since its redesign a few weeks ago.

"Since the beginning in May 2006, Consoles now has more than 50,000 users and we are established as Europe's most active gaming consoles league. All the best, Consoles!", says Michael Kuhl, Director of Consoles,from Turtle Entertainment in Cologne.

Further Information about the Consoles Sports League and News about the Cups: www.consoles.net

Information about Turtle Entertainment: www.turtle-entertainment.de

Consoles Sports League

Consoles Sports League ( www.consoles.net) is the European platform for console gamers. It is operated by Turtle Entertainment the European market leader in electronic sports. Consoles.net opened for competiton in 2006 and has attracted more than 33,500 members since then. 32,000 Matches have been played in more than 30 game since the start and 3,5 million page impressions are generated each month. The Consoles Sport League expanded to France in October 2006 and to Italy in June 2007. Endowed premierships and Cups are primary projects for Consoles.net.

Further information regarding the Consoles Sport League Consoles Sport League: www.consoles.net

Turtle Entertainment

Turtle Entertainment was founded in 2000. The company quickly grew to be the European leader in the sector of electronic sports (eSports). The Electronic Sports League (ESL), operated by Turtle Entertainment, is active in 35 different countries worldwide. The league portal www.esl.eu reaches above ten million visits a month generated by more than two million registered users. Turtle Entertainment broadcasts ESL events via IPTV channel ESL TV since 2007. The headquarter has 174 employees and is located in Cologne, Germany. Turtle Entertainment owns the majority of the Chinese eSports league PGL (Pro Gamer League) since 2007. Important business partners of Turtle Entertainment a re global corporations such as Intel, adidas, Volkswagen, Dell, Suzuki, ASUS, BitDefender, Sennheiser, Windows Vista, Sidewinder, Razor, Alienware and gamed.de.

Further information is available at www.turtle-entertainment.de

Online info at a glance:

- This press release as a .pdf: www.turtle-entertainment.de/Dateien/PM_CON_GebTag3_EN.pdf

- Consoles Sport League: www.consoles.net

- Turtle Entertainment: www.turtle-entertainment.de

- Corporate Trailer Turtle Entertainment GmbH (File): www.turtle-entertainment.de/Dateien/TE_Trailer.zip

- Corporate Trailer Turtle Entertainment GmbH (Flash): http://files.turtle-entertainment.de/video/eslpromo.html

Contact:

Turtle Entertainment GmbH

Press Office

Ibrahim Mazari

Siegburger Straße 189