This St. Patrick’s Day weekend at the first Red Bull LAN of its 2012 performance camp season, the best of the best of eSports athletes proved that training, not the luck of the Irish, is the key to reaching the gaming pot of gold. Over the course of the three day invitational training camp, top professional players from Blizzard Entertainment’s global eSports staple, StarCraft II and competitive players of Halo: Reach engaged in intense, focused practice in a specially-created arena at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, testing new strategies, refining techniques, facing rivals and pushing the limits of their stamina in preparation for tournament play.

Today marks the start of the NCAA Football 13 My Heisman Cover Vote, which allows fans to cast their vote on the EA SPORTS NCAA Football Facebook page for one of eight Heisman Trophy winners to accompany former Baylor University quarterback Robert Griffin III on the cover of EA SPORTS NCAA Football 13. Developed in Orlando, Florida by EA Tiburon, and licensed by The Collegiate Licensing Company, a division of IMG College, NCAA Football 13 will be available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on July 10.  

WWE Superstar Sheamus, who was on hand at a recent THQ event at Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), knows what it takes to take the road to Wrestlemania. The professional wrestler had to work his way up through the ranks of the minor league systems before making it big in the WWE. The Celtic Warrior talks about that journey, as well as the new WWE 12 game, in this exclusive video interview.

The people have spoken and in a precursor to the main event in Wrestlemania XXVIII, legendary WWE Superstar The Rock will grace the collector’s edition cover of WWE 12. Publisher THQ allowed fans to vote for the cover of the forthcoming release from the renowned WWE flagship videogame franchise.  In a competitive battle against WWE Superstar John Cena, his opponent in the main event at WrestleMania XXVIII, live on pay-per-view April 1, 2012 from Sun Life Stadium Miami, Fla., The Rock was selected overwhelmingly by consumers who cast their votes in a franchise-first opportunity to choose a cover Superstar for a WWE videogame.

A new season of college football is kicking off. Electronic Arts and NCAA Football have partnered with a new fellowship program that will provide former football student-athletes an opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of the games industry as well as the business of sports. Interested applicants may work directly through EA SPORTS University Relations. Mark Ingram, cover athlete for the recently released NCAA Football 12, talks about gaming in the exclusive video interview below.

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has named the winners for its annual scholarship programs.  Four recipients – Hunter Ian Hart (Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy), Melissa Kronenberger (Savannah College of Art & Design), Logan McEwan (Florida State University, College of Law) and Joshua Cain (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business) -- will receive a total of $10,000 ($2,500 to each recipient) through the Randy Pausch and Mark Beaumont scholarship funds.  The scholarships were awarded by the AIAS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the organization.

Dirk Nowitzki is now an NBA champion and an NBA Finals MVP. Thanks to his leadership, the Dallas Mavericks take out the arrogant Miami Heat in Florida. Nowitzki was able to beat the Heat even with a fever in game five. And he showed class by failing to get into a dirt match with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade after they made fun of him playing sick. Nowitzki is a rarity in the NBA because he doesn’t play video games – something Wade and James both do. The Maverick talks about his gaming habits in this exclusive video interview.

ORLANDO, Florida -- Novatel Wireless announced and showed off here at CTIA its new 4G MiFi personal wireless Wi-Fi hotspot devices for Verizon's 4G LTE and Sprint/Clear's 4G WiMax networks. The LTE MiFi 4510 and WiMax MiFi 4582 will allow up to 5 users connect via Wi-Fi to the respective 4G mobile broadband networks with speeds up to 12 megabits per second on Verizon's 4G LTE network or up to 10 megabits per second on Sprint/Clear's 4G WiMax network. The battery on the devices last up to 5 hours. The devices won the 2011 CTIA Emerging Technology Awards under the Mobile Consumer Electronics Accessories category. Check out an exclusive first look video preview of the new Novatel MiFi hotspot devices.

ORLANDO, Florida -- At CTIA, Sprint announced the new 7-inch HTC View 4G which features the optional Scribe stylus pen and integrated PenTab software. The Scribe and PenTab is the first Android tablet that features a stylus pen allowing users to take notes or draw using the Scribe stylus pen. The HTC View 4G also features a 7-inch 1024 x 600 multi-touch display, 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a back-facing 5 megapixel and a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera, HDMI output and Google Android mobile operating system. The device will run on Sprint's 4G WiMax network with download speeds of up to 10 megabits per second as well as on Sprint's 3G EVDO Rev. A CDMA network and 802.11 Wi-Fi wireless networks. Check out an exclusive first look video preview of the new HTC View 4G device.

ORLANDO, Florida -- The CTIA Wireless 2011 officially opened today with a bang as Samsung announced two new Galaxy Tab tablets, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9, to its growing line of tablets. In its on-stage presentation, Samsung showed different users favoring different sizes based on their needs and lifestyles. With the announcement, Samsung now has the most comprehensive size range of tablets with a 7, 8.9 and 10 inch tablets. Samsung highlighter the sizes with a huge 3D sign in front of the CTIA trade show entrance. Samsung has been one of the more successful competitors to Apple's iPad and iPad 2 in the hot and growing tablet space.