Team EG announce that effective immediately a new division will be launched for the popular Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game, WarCraft 3. This move will mark the second time the organization steps foot into the RTS realm this month, bringing yet another top team to North America.

Featured in this new division are some of the most renowned players within the WarCraft community. Embracing the Team EG traditional blue colors will be top WarCraft 3 player, Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen. Joining him will be his former teammates from MeetYourMakers, Dmitriy "Happy" Kostin and Rene "Ciara" Krag, with Cassandra Ng coming along as the team's manager.

Schenkhuizen should need no introduction. Becoming one of the most recognized names in eSports, Schenkhuizen has placed first in many prominent events such as the World Series of Video Games (WSVG), the World eSports Festival (WeF), BlizzCon, the World Cyber Games (WCG), and the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC). Additionally, he has received two eSports WarCraft 3 Player of the Year Awards and was chosen as the eSports Player of the Year overall for 2006. His astounding seven eSports Award nominations and three eSports Award victories are both world records. He has also received the Most Valuable Player title in the WarCraft 3 Champions League an impressive four times.


Team EG's new WC3 division will be in attendance at all major upcoming events, both regional and domestic, including the upcoming ESWC Korea event, at which Grubby and Happy will both be in attendance. For additional information, visit www.myEG.net.


Source: Team EG

This month marks 12 years since the never ending story of Duke Nukem Forever was first announced and while its been quiet lately it looks like there is still life in the Duke. According to George Broussard, the director in charge of the game, the development team has now reached a "milestone".

Closing out a milestone this week. 71 more tasks to do and we started with probably 800-900. Been a good push. Next one starts Monday.

Why 71 tasks left is a milestone is anyones guess, so is the question if they left the most time consuming tasks for the end. However, math would tell you that the game is around 90% done.

With some luck we might see a playable version of the game at the upcoming E3.

Source: Twitter

Today the games for the tournament Quake Forever at Dreamhack Summer 2009 was announced! The event will take place at Dreamhack Summer 2009 during the 13th of June to 16th June.
The event will feature two games with a massive prizepurse of 30 000 SEK (€2700). Both tournaments will feature 16 players and will be played on tournament computers. More infos about Dreamhack Summer can be found at the site: http://www.dreamhack.se/dhs09/

Game: Quake World
System: Duel - 1 vs 1
Slots: 16 players
Prize purse: 15 000 SEK

Game: Quake 3 (CPM)
System: Duel - 1 vs 1
Slots: 16 players
Prize purse: 15 000 SEK

This week's show will feature an exclusive announcement from Evil Geniuses, which will be announced live on the air and only on Lo3. Team EG manager Alex "chibsquad" Garfield will be on the show to discuss in length the announcement, as well as talk with us about various developments of the team as of late including the new StarCraft division, and the Counter-Strike 1.6 team replacing Gravitas Gaming at the KODE5 finals. Expect some CSProMod talk as well!

WCG Ultimate Gamer is down to it's final six competitors as Siji "StarSlay3r" Thornton was eliminated this week in a rather dramatic episode. We will talk with her about her feelings of being eliminated by Mark and all of the emotions surrounding her relationship with him on the show, her experience on the show, and thoughts about people's comments about her from the Internet.

We will go through the week's happening in eSports including SK's win at KODE5 Sweden, Pandemic's win over compLexity in the TF2 CEVO finals, and ESL disallowing HLTV at live events.

Tune in Thursday, April 16th at 7 PM EST/01:00 AM CET at the following links. Wheat will be on the air an hour earlier with Wheatisms and music.


Video: http://www.djwheat.tv/live/

Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 10 May 2009 to 16:00 CDT, 10 May 2009
Schedule: Passed

We're proud to announce our first on-line Slovenian QuakeLive duel tournament. The tournament will be played in best of three with double elimination and the player limit will be 32. The tournament will start at Sunday, 11:00 CDT, 10 May 2009, check-ins will open at 17:00 CEST. More info about the tournament can be found here or in #quake.si on QuakeNet.


Slovenian QuakeLive 1v1 tournament sponsors are racunalniske-novice and Joker.

*UPDATE* (28.04.09) The tourney has been delayed by a week and will now take place on 11:00 CDT, 10 May 2009.

Over at EUQL there is an interview with the professional FPS player Gareth "GaRpY" Marshall from the Multiplay i36 tournament in the UK. They talk about Quake Live and switching from Painkiller, among many other things!

EUQL: A number of people are asking for certain weapon damage to be altered, namely the LG and the RG, is there anything you would personally like to see changed in respect to weapon balance or do you think things are working well as it stands?
GaRpY: I actually like how the weapons are balanced at the moment; I have recently just started playing quake3 and omg!! the LG and Rail are like quad all the time… so powerful! I actually think Quakelive has got a nice balance to it as it stands.

Source: euql.org

Creator of the upcoming AGP Tour, Jarod "Streetrunner" Reisin has written an extensive article covering additions that Quake Live should have:

"I personally want Quake Live to appeal to people long enough for them to not quit after they get destroyed in their first game. I want them to not feel like they will never catch up to the average Quake veteran. I want them to play long enough to see the joy past the beginning stages of difficulty. I want more players. And I want Id Software to do well with this game and continue their great deathmatch games. That is at least 4 things I want. And there are many ways this can be accomplished. And the game is on the right track. But it needs more to become more than a game. It needs what Halo 3 has. "

The article raises some interesting points on the current state of Quake Live and the potential for the future. Check on Gameriot's Quakelife to find out what Halo 3 has that Quake Live doesn't.

Other articles of interest:
What the community can do
Why Quake is better than any MMO
Why you should sign up for a Quake league

Scheduled: 08:00 CDT, 14 April 2009 to 11:00 CDT, 14 April 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.

08:00 CDT, 14 April 2009
Last STX SOUL -vs- Mind Wemade FOX 1 2 3
notice STX SOUL -vs- Berserker CJ ENTUS 1 2 3
saiR KTF MagicNs -vs- HerO STX SOUL 1 2 3
young Hwaseung OZ -vs- Calm STX SOUL 1 2 3

You all know you want more info about the world's first and best ProGamer. Fatal1ty recently attended Copenhagen E-sport Challenge where he set a Guinness World Record for most frags in 60 minutes of dm17 FFA. Truly a feat worthy of a World Champion. He also got interviewed a few times. Interview snippet:

Can you tell us a little bit about what games you've been playing?
I've been World Champion at Quake 3, Doom 3, Unreal Tournament, Painkiller, AVP 2. But recently I've been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2, Quake Live, Call of Duty, World at War, and some other games that are fun and stuff.

Video interview (skip to 6:50)
Transcript
Update: Interview after the World Record

Quake Live is the title of shooter-giant iD Software's newest endeavor to capture the hearts of FPS fans everywhere. This revolutionary shooter reinvents Quake 3 on a massive scale and is offered through their sleek web interface ABSOLUTELY FREE. Quake Live is completely Ad-Supported and provides any and all player skills to enjoy the precision, intelligence, and simplicity that QUAKE game play has to offer. Through iD's extensive Beta involvement it is clear that player critique is highly regarded in development decisions. iD Software is on track to release one of the most groundbreaking multilayer experiences, and once again they do it ABSOLUTELY FREE. Windows users can head to http://www.quakelive.com/ and begin downloading the next generation in Internet FPS.


Movie File Links: High Quality - 141MB / Medium Quality - 72MB / Low Quality - 45MB
Youtube HD / QuakeUnity.com / own3d.tv

Team excello is going to host a Quake Live 1v1 tournament with $100 dollar cash price, sponsored by ulti.se.

The 32 Player Tournament will be Single Elimination and using the standard mappool, consisting of qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney4, qztourney6, qztourney7.
The tournament starts at 11:00 CDT, 25 April 2009 and players must be available on #ulti at least 30 minutes before the start.

Participating are top QL players like Spart1e, draven, Weird, a1r-r41d, smoke, 1o1 and more.

Registration is open at the excello website.

Therese "trito" Andersson, one of the most known female gamers in Sweden and the quake scene, has been interviewed by the german eSport site Fragster.de. She spoke about the Quake games, her team "girlz 0f destruction" and a bit about her relationship with Magnus "fox" Olsson.

You've been in a relationship with fox for over three years now. Did that affect you somehow in playing Quake? Are you playing some games versus him from time to time?
trito: I had been playing Quake for several years when I met fox, so our relationship didn't really affect my gaming. Sometimes we play clan arena with each other, but we never play against each other because it often results in one of us being in a bad mood, not optional for a relationship. (smiles)

So fox doesn't like losing versus you?
trito: Haha. I wish he had lost against me, only in my dreams. But he gets in a bad mood if I play too good and get too many frags. And I get angry if he wins too easy.

English Version // German Version

After a month or so of waiting, the full World Cyber Games list of game titles is now available for your viewing pleasure


Returning once against to the WCG game list are Starcraft and FIFA, the only two original titles since the tournaments conception in 2000, when it was under the name of WCGC.

Crowd favorites like Counter Strike 1.6, Warcraft 3, Virtua Figher, and Guitar Hero, will also be in. The massive communities for the games Red Stone, Carom 3D, Asphalt 4, and Wise Star 2 are in luck this year, as their favorite game will grace the stage in Chengdu, China, later this year.


"The new titles include all-time favorite PC titles FIFA Soccer 09, TrackMania Nations Forever, Carom3D and Red Stone as the Official Game Title for WCG. They will join the previously announced five Official Game Titles – including Counter-Strike 1.6 (PC), Starcraft: Brood War (PC), WarCraft III The Frozen Throne (PC), Guitar Hero: World Tour (Xbox 360) and Virtua Fighter 5 (Xbox 360) – to ensure that this year’s competition features a wide variety of games that appeal to all different types of gamers around the world."

Scheduled: 04:00 CDT, 12 April 2009 to 09:00 CDT, 12 April 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, 12 April 2009
keke Wemade FOX -vs- Hwasin STX SOUL 1 2 3
Memory CJ ENTUS -vs- GooJiLa STX SOUL 1 2 3
Shuttle STX SOUL -vs- Never (aka forGG) KTF MagicNs 1 2 3
Spear Hwaseung OZ -vs- July STX SOUL 1 2 3