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The LA Times reports that Microsoft will be sponsoring the World Cyber Games [<-- annoying music] through 2008, making Windows and the Xbox360 the official platforms of what bills itself as the "world's largest computer and video game festival." This will no doubt help push the visibility of gaming as a pro sport, but I wonder what impact it will have on the Cyberathelete Professional League, which has been around at least as long. With Microsoft leveraging its weight to box out other consoles, it seems there’s still room for some PlayStation or other kind of competition elsewhere — although almost all pro gaming takes place on PC. In any case, this could be a coup on Microsoft’s part to put the XBox360 into ever more hands. Hopefully, it won’t water down events like this.