Artosis talks to IdrA right after doing the Tasteless interview which you can find below.

IdrA answers some very important things like who the best foreign Zerg player is, the best foreign Protoss player, the best foreign Terran player, thoughts on Advokate and Strelok, best in each race for Chinese players, thoughts on who the best overall foreigner is, a little on SC2GG StarLeague, Ansadi StarLeague, Valor tournament, and the GOL tournament.

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Artosis takes Tasteless out for a cup of coffee and talks to him about what’s going on lately in the Starcraft eSports scene.

Some of the things covered are season 3 of GomTV, Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee, Valor tournament, upcoming show match between Strelok and TossGirl, ESWC, female pro gaming, Starcraft 2, BlizzCon, update on his life in Korea, new store on his website TastelessGaming.com, thoughts about finishing school, new projects in the future, and much more.


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The third week of id software's campaign "6 Maps in 6 Week" brings us another ctf map. Here is official release announcement that covers Bloodlusts background and information about the next map:

In 1999, id Software contracted two young developers, Michael "Casey" Goodhead and Dave "Zoid" Kirsch (known collectively as "Threewave" to create 3 Capture the Flag arenas for QUAKE III Arena. The first in this 3-pack was called Bloodlust - and now the source from which we bring you our week 3 release. In revisiting this map over the last couple of months, the team here decided to make some renovations before releasing it in QUAKE LIVE, and we're very happy with the additions, changes, and polish we've been able to contribute. Bloodlust is perfectly suited for 8 to 10 players and rewards teamwork.

Our long-time friend Casey continues to bring his talents to the game industry as the Game Design Director at Threewave Software.

Although we've now released back-to-back CTF arenas, next week's release will certainly quench the thirst of our Duelers. Stay tuned.

Source: Official News - Threewave

It's not often we cover consoles here at ESReality but at times you see technological advances that you simply can't help not writing about.

Project Natal, which was just announced at E3, is basically a facial, voice and motion recognition system for the XBOX 360. In one of the demonstration videos, we see a girl interacting with a digital boy on the screen, Milo. The digital boy reacts to what the girl says and they seem to be able to hold a conversation while they follow each others movements. As the video progresses, the real girl can actually see herself transmitted into the game. Then she decides to draw a picture to Milo, so she draws a picture on a piece of real paper, passes it to the TV and the boy actually grabs it, seemingly holding the picture in his hands, inside the TV..

See what Steven Spielberg calls "a historical moment".

This week I brought in the experts to give their opinions on the situation with LAN events, not only in the US but worldwide and what the gamers can do to help bring the good ol' LAN event back. Back to help us out is ceppy, who helped run QuakeCon and ESWC 08. Also joining us is Dave "killdashnine" Derington the organizer of Warfactory, whose also worked for CPL, ESWC and MLG.

A fairly long and extensive discussion of the state of LANs across the world, and what the gamers need to remedy the problem. We also talk about how Warfactory got its start, and reminisce about the high points of gaming.

Head on over to Ready Up Radio to download the podcast.

Mike Morhaime yesterday announced at the Activision Blizzard pre-E3 conference, that the release of the highly anticipated StarCraft 2 is planned for this year:

We're targeting an end of year release, this year, for StarCraft 2, but as always, we won't release it until it meets our standards and the expectations of our players.

The first episode of the StarCraft 2 trilogy will be Terrans: Wings of Liberty. It will contain the "human race" single player, and a full multiplayer including all three races. Last month the Blizzard staff created a thread on the official Battle.Net forum with informations on how to participate in the StarCraft 2 (Diablo and WarCraft Universe as well) beta test. You will need at least one original Blizzard game key to proceed. Of course registration won't give you a sure ticket to participate in the beta.

Source: shacknews

Note: Due to various reasons, we weren’t able to use the studio this week for the show, so it was filmed with the camcorder we use for our special videos.

Last Week

We covered the Ansadi StarLeague, Casy and Roro’s match, GameOutLoud StarLeague, ICCUP and their recent happenings, IdrA and his recent Minor League performance, KeSPA and their weird decisions, WCG USA, WGTour, SC2GG StarLeague, and much more.

This Week

The latest information on BioBoyAT, WCG USA, WGT Clan League, Titan League, GOL invitational, GosuCup, DreamHack, Zotac Cup, State/Province League, ShutterCross job opening, Pro League, OSL, MSL, latest KeSPA news, Starcraft 2, and more.

You can view Episode 12 by clicking here.

SK Gaming announced today they have picked up Bogdan "bodzo" Mazur to their new QuakeLive roster, where he will join forces with Shane "rapha" Hendrixson.

bodzo who is still a relative newcomer to the global quake scene, has build his reputation winning several large online tournaments over the last couple of months.

The announcement can be found on SK-Gaming.

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 31 May 2009 to 08:00 CDT, 31 May 2009
Schedule: Passed

Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will run for 20 weeks from March 29, 2009. Unlike most of the other StarCraft leagues, there will be no preliminary matches, all matches are considered as a part of the knockout tournament. Averatec-Intel Classic Season 3 will be broadcasted live in English by Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee & Nick "Tasteless" Plott.

04:00 CDT, 31 May 2009
Violet (#76) KTF MagicNs -vs- Practice (aka Luxury) (#3) KTF MagicNs (BET) 1 2 3
Tempest (#38) KTF MagicNs -vs- Hul (aka JiHyun) (#98) Samsung Khan (BET) 1 2 3
Gangyu (aka Kwanro) (#39) CJ ENTUS -vs- Mensol[ZerO] (#11) Woongjin Stars (BET) 1 2 3
EffOrt (#32) CJ ENTUS -vs- Mind (#20) Wemade FOX (BET) 1 2 3

Hey folks! We will be officially opening our doors to the masses of wayward Quake Fans this Sunday. Our Launch Party event will begin at 9:30PM where we will give any newcomers a quick rundown of the site's features, followed by a roundtable discussion on the competitive state and direction of QuakeLive with renowned shoutcaster, djWHEAT.

As if that wasn't enough, we'll then turn the mic over to game guru slasher as we get down to business with our NGL 4v4 Winners Bracket Finals CTF matchup between Fires of Judaism and ET CETERA! (check on quake-live.tv for the pregame writeup).

Be sure to tune in this Sunday, May 31 at 9:30PM EST for the Launch Party right here on QuakeLive.TV!

If you want to help spread the word, please see our official press release.
Head over to #ql.tv in irc.gamesurge.net and irc.quakenet.org to join the QuakeLive.TV community! As per usual, we appreciate any comments or feedback so head over to our forums and let us know what you think!
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Razer has released a new gaming mouse mat, according to Razorzone.com:

"With the Razer Sphex, Razer introduces the first gaming grade desktop skin. With a value proposition unmatched by other gaming mouse mats, the Razer Sphex delivers high tracking quality on the thinnest mousing surface ever. Additionally the multiuse adhesive of the Razer Sphex lets you attach and remove it on any surface, allowing you to take it with you wherever you go."

It is made with gamers in mind and costs 15$.

Originally posted a couple days ago, Artosis went backstage at the 6h Minor League event, where he focused on getting coverage of eSTRO_Suny and CJ_IdrA.

The first video focused on Suny's 40+ minute game, which displayed his 400+ apm (actions per minute). You can read more about this match in the original ESReality news posted on May 26th.

And now, the second part of the Minor League backstage video coverage is now available.

It features IdrA and his match against the new Samsung Khan Zerg player, Rarity. The video ends with a short interview with IdrA and Artosis.

Click here to watch the second video from the Minor League.

All games can be described as involving the manipulation of game pieces in a game space. The pieces are defined as all of those things which the players have direct control over; the player’s avatar and weapons in an FPS, the pieces on one side in chess, or the player’s own body and any extensions of it, such as a racket or stick, in a physical game. The game space consists of the place in which the pieces exist and are allowed to move, and all those things within it which are not under the sole, direct control of any player, such as armour and health pickups in an FPS or the ball in any number of physical games.

I'm in no way affiliated with this website but I thought this was an ESReality worthy article.

Source: game-central.org/what-makes-a-competitive-game

For the first time ever, Artosis takes you deep into the Minor League event in South Korea, where stars are born and dreams are crushed.

Part 1 of this special video coverage focuses on showing you the different teams and players who compete at this seasons Minor League event, as well as a long video recorded game of eSTRO_Suny, one of the fastest pro gamers around today, with over 400 actions per minute (APM).

Part 2 of this video will feature IdrA and his match against the new Samsung Khan Zerg player. The video will be released within the next couple of days, so check back for that one soon.

You can view the video from SCforall.com.

Viaceslavas 'fire_bot' Duk played a perfect qualification tournament for the Major Series where he beat players like Peter 'cYmoZz' Sellmaier. He also managed to beat Milos 'Zubb' Zubal in his first group match, but still fire_bot left the competition very surprisingly. fragster spoke with him about the reasons and his future in the Quake-scene.

The EMS might be the last big Quake 3 tournament. Isn't it frustrating to leave such a high quality competition in that way?

fire_bot: How many times people will tell - every time when any game is published - that Quake 3 is going to die? Many, many times! It's the same here: There will be less or more tournaments... So don't panic. But I'm not frustrated because of leaving the competition but because of not playing Cooller. It was my dream to play against him since 2002. Can you imagine how I feel after my decision now? That's right, I feel pretty bad.

Read the full version of the interview at Fragster.de

English Version
German version