As the online gaming industry continues its climb, the Global Gaming League and Clanbase.com, a European competition organizer for online gaming, have formed a partnership to further online video gaming. The partnership will see the two companies working together to take competitive online video gaming to the next level by combining their respective communities and talents. Together, they form the world's largest online gaming community with over 1 million players from 190 countries around the world.

The announcement said the ongoing partnership will see the GGL, who offered gamers over $100,000 in cash prizes during their 2004 season, supporting ClanBase across all business segments including marketing, business development, television production, live event production, and technology development.

Americans, which now represent half of the online gaming revenues, are projected to be only 24% of the $14.5 billion worldwide market anticipated in 2006. Japan is of extreme interest to the industry because its household Internet penetration of greater than 80% is the largest in the world and it is a country nearly as obsessed with sports as America. Countries with even more long-term promise for the industry are China and Malaysia where already two times more people have gambled on the Internet than have purchased a product online.

"We are very excited about building a truly global community of video gamers," said Ted Owen, co-founder and chairman at the GGL. "The relationship and synergy with ClanBase will be extremely important in helping us achieve this goal."

Rob van der Veer, VP at Clanbase said, "The partnership with the GGL is perfect because of their roots in the entertainment industry, their marketing know-how, and their ability to raise money. We look forward to working with them to boost our competitions with more gamers, great coverage, and exciting events."