A staple ingredient to an online gamer’s lifestyle is our internet connection.  Just as umbilical cords provide nourishment when we’re in the womb, those thin cables plugged in the back of our consoles and PCs feed us packets, one after another, that connect us to other gamers near and far.  It’s a source of greatest comfort and, when it misbehaves, a source of rage that burns with the heat of twin suns.

The Frag Dolls are all serious gamers.  We curse the lag monster and make dire threats against its offspring.  We make sometimes bloody offerings in the hopes that everyone else will decide not to use the internet and leave it as our exclusive playground for a night.  Our internet connections are kind of a Big Deal for us.  They can make or break our performance, and in matches that ping is crucial.  In the past we’ve made do with the connections we could individually afford, and hoped it was enough.  Not anymore.  Now we discard the Dark Ages and embrace the Renaissance.

We’re thrilled to announce a new major sponsor of the Frag Dolls team: Comcast!  These guys are going to give us all mad hook-ups on internet connections so you won’t hear us moaning about red dots in Rainbow Six Vegas anymore.  Instead you’ll find us showing off by hosting 16-player matches in GRAW and tearing up our online battlefields with minds freed from concern.  Flowers will bloom in our wake and rain will become sweet wine.  Mortals will tremble, trapped within our crosshairs.  Gamers will bless the series of tubes that leads from our homes to psychadelic infinity.

Game Invasion, Comcast’s new gaming channel, has also just launched with videogame content from yours truly, as well as MLG, G4, and GameTrailers.  It’s a neato site with a lot of high definition video and an interface that manages to be unique and still intuitive.  Also, it smells of fresh lemons and citrus.

Thanks to Comcast we’re going to have the opportunity to travel to a lot of development studios, tournaments, and consumer events to report on everything to do with games.  At E3 this year we took baby steps towards the idea of using our connections to provide other gamers with the kinds of information we’d love to have about games: behind-the-scenes interviews, front-line news, and insight into the gaming lifestyle.  This new opportunity will help us go from baby steps to big girl steps in that endeavor. And here we thought we were already the luckiest gamers in the world.  Well, maybe we were, but now someone’s going to have to pull a real hat trick to catch up to us!

- jinx

in this life that we live we only make do