Pro basketball players are looking for other means of income during the NBA lockout. Several are making deals to play overseas. Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward is going pro in a different game, StarCraft II Hayward has joined the IGN Pro League and will play in the IPL Origins event in Atlantic City Oct. 6-9. He will also serve as a spokesperson for the event. Hayward’s already paying dividends in that department. CBS Sports and Yahoo are among the news outlets that have picked up the story.

A legend was born at the EVO 2011 fighting game tournament. Eight-year old Noah Solis made the Top 48 with Marvel vs. Capcom 3 , schooling many adult players in the process and quickly becoming a fan favorite. Those watching cheered his every combo and booed the winning players when he met defeat. It was a Catch-22 for his opponents. They’d be subject to ridicule if they lost to him but hated if they defeated him.

Pro gaming sponsorship group The Traveling Circus knew a very good thing when they saw it. They’ve signed the young man to a sponsorship that will cover his tournament entries and give him his own clothing line.

Ubisoft’s ambassadors of shooters, the Frag Dolls, are inviting their fans Frag Fest, a new community night for gaming and good times. The first Frag Fest will be July 6, 2011 at 8 p.m. EST and Beyond Gaming will stream the event. Both those playing and those watching the event are eligible to win fabulous prizes from the Frag Dolls.

People who know what they’re doing when it comes to Pokemon will have a chance to show it next month. It’s time for the U.S. National Pokemon Championships. The first match ups will be held at Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 8, 2011, with attendees facing off until July 10, 2011.

If you’re competing for the top spot in the Pokemon Video Game Championship Series, then you already know whether or not you’ll be participating in the U.S. National Championships…

It sure would be great to go to Comicon 2011 for free. But it isn’t like people are lining up to just hand you a free trip. No, if you want one, you’ll have to earn it. Hey, look! Play N Trade stores are holding a Marvel vs Capcom 3 International Tournament. Well, that just solves everything…

Fantasy Flight Games recently announced that the beginning of their 2011 Living Card Game (LCG) Regionals season is about ready to begin and are looking for retailers or tournament organizers to host their Regional Championship Tournaments.

The tournaments will be based on the three LCG games: Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game, Call of Cthulhu LCG and A Game of Thrones LCG. If you’re a player, you’ve got plenty of time to brush up on your game as the season runs from May 2 to June 13, 2011. Computer gaming is fun and all but it still can’t match playing face-to-face, actually meeting people and making friends.

One of the more recent films to be named Gamers is a 62-minute-long documentary by Ben Gonyo currently available to watch for free at SnagFilms’ web site. While it seems to focus primarily on World of Warcraft it includes interviews with gamers, a few developers, designers and even a sociologist.

Call it a huge advancement in artificial intelligence or the first step towards the creation of our robot overlords.

The IBM supercomputer Watson, which you may have seen in recent commercials, bested game show legend Ken Jennings in a Jeopardy test run. Jennings is renowned as the best player in that show’s history, piling up an insane 74 game winning streak in 2004-05. Watson also defeated Brad Rutter, a contestant whose Jeopardy winnings exceed $3 million.

There are few things in gaming better than racking up a killing spree in Halo: Reach. One way to make that even better is to rack up head shots while fighting breast cancer.

Kari Toyama and Tasha Pettengill created a way to do that in 2006 with the Fight Like a Girl (FLAG) Halo Tournament. The pair has run the event ever since. The October 23-24, 2010, weekend event will bring gamers from all over the world together to raise money for breast cancer research. One hundred percent of the cash raised goes to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and National Cervical Cancer Coalition.

AJ received a double dose of heartbreak last week on World Cyber Games Ultimate Gamer. He got sent home and is out of the running for the $100,000 prize. Also, he’s no longer able to kick back in the cushy Ultimate Gamer pad and hang out with Faye. It was a hard fall from grace, considering he placed first in the “real life” challenge.

Kat and Ryan formed an unlikely alliance. It could be short-lived as…