After a year of tournaments held across the globe, over 700 of the best competitive online gamers from 74 different countries converged -- in real life! -- for the World Cyber Games 2007 Grand Final.

Instead of tracks or fields, these cyber athletes competed in the PC games "Age of Empires II," "Carom3D," "Command & Conquer 3," "Counter-Strike," "FIFA 07," "Need for Speed: Carbon," "StarCraft," "Warcraft III" and the Xbox 360 games "Project Gotham Racing 3," "Dead or Alive 4," "Gears of War" and "Tony Hawk's Project 8."

In this week's edition of "Up Down Left Right," DERRIK J. LANG is in Seattle for the competition and tests out a svelte new PlayStation Portable loaded with Atari's "Hot Pixel" (rated T, $29.99) on his way there.

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Watch the video here: http://asap.ap.org/data/interactives/_moneyandgadgets/udlr/udlr29/

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"Up Down Left Right" is a weekly video feature starring asap reporters and gaming gurus DERRIK J. LANG in New York and RYAN PEARSON in Los Angeles. From separate coasts, they provide their take on today's -- and sometimes yesterday's -- games. E-mail them at updownleftrightap.org.

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See the previous "Up Down Left Right" installment here: http://asap.ap.org/stories/1777572.s

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