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Rustlers GameSafe Tournaments - Done (12 comments)

( Major News: CS:S)

Posted by bigfoot @ 10:42 CDT, 2 September 2008 - iMsg

August has seen UK-based Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4 players battling it out in the Rustlers GameSafe Tournaments, a series of four different competitions spanning these two games where a variety of tasty prizes were on offer.

The CSS and CoD4 tournaments each carried a £1000 cash prize along with 5 goody bags for the winning sides. These goody bags were perhaps the pick of prizes as they contain a mini-fridge, mini-microwave, Saitek gaming gear and a 6 month supply of Rustlers to keep the winners warm in the winter months.

London MiNT were the victors in the CSS event, beating infused in the final by a score of 16-9, whilst relatively new side Phantasmagoria defeated 4Kings 13-7 in the final of the CoD4 team competition.

Individually Adam "4K^TW!ST" Cheshire won the CoD 4 FFA tournament, whilst Scott "aaroth" Macken picked up the CoD 4 70-Second Shipment Challenge title.

Full details are available on the Rustlers GameSafe site and a demo of the CSS final can be found here.

Interview with k1llsen, forsees retiring (144 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Slasher @ 06:54 CDT, 2 September 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

A video interview from ESWC 2008 with

Marcel "k1llsen" Paul after his victory over

Zhibo "RazerJ" Fan in the semifinals, leading to the grand final match against

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky. Paul talks about his mindset heading into the finals, his overall thoughts about this year's ESWC, and his plans to retire from gaming. Special guest appearance by

Anton "Cooller" Singov.

The interviews with Cypher and

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson will take a bit longer due to the length of each.

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( Major News: CoD)

Posted by Bob @ 04:45 CDT, 1 September 2008 - iMsg

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OpenTDM new Quake2 mod (73 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 01:20 CDT, 1 September 2008 - iMsg

The famous R1Q2 client and anticheat

Quake2 creator

R1CH has released latest OpenTDM version with everything fixed and with some new features.

Some new and old features

Downloads:
OpenTDM
R1Q2 (client)
R1GL
Using R1Q2 and R1GL together is strongly recommended for optimum performance and stability.

Quake2 download.
Q2scene, all about Quake2!

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Site summary for week ending 29 Aug (No comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 18:00 CDT, 31 August 2008 - iMsg

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Endlessly "yes sir" for free now (77 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Ins0mnia @ 15:35 CDT, 31 August 2008 - iMsg

To celebrate 13 years of Command & Conquer and that we soon see C&C Red Alert 3 in the shops. EA has made the original Command & Conquer : Red Alert a free download! This is surely not the first time that EA Games did this, Last year they did exactly the same with the first Command and Conquer.

Once again; The version you download is the exact same version as you could get on the Command and Conquer : The First Decade package, which means it's Windows XP compatible. How ever, I do not know if it also works on VISTA.

Download disk one (500mb / Sovjet)

Download disk two (500mb / Allied)

Installation instructions

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ESWC Interviews: Czm, Cooller, chance (107 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Slasher @ 19:42 CDT, 29 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

In case you missed them, Slasher and Carmac of SK-Gaming.com have conducted four video interviews from ESWC 2008 with

Paul "czm" Nelson,

Anton "Cooller" Singov,

Chance "chance" Lacina, and

Tom "griffin" Wall.

Post-event interviews with

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson,

Marcel "k1ller" Paul, and

Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky will be up shortly.

czm after his stage match loss to Cypher:

Chance after his win over Cooller

Cooller after his stage match win over ZeRo4

griffin on his ESWC performance

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eSports Weekly returns for i34 special (13 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by TosspoT @ 08:18 CDT, 29 August 2008 - iMsg

eSports Weekly returns with a one off i34 special show! This weeks dabble is not only the twice the length of your regular dabble but also features Hollyoaks stunner Gemma Atkinson!!

This weeks show is all about Multiplays i34 the biggest gaming event in the UK to date and follows the main tournaments for Call of Duty 4 & Counter Strike Source. More than that though the show also features indepth interviews with gaming veteran Mark 'wombat' Larsen, CGS World Champion GM Michael 'Odee' O'dell and QuadV Director and CGS Commentator Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner. On top of all of that theres a round of the UK WCG Qualifiers.

You can watch the show right here you can also watch another one off special from CLUK Lan right here

Spore "pre-load" now available (47 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Nicky @ 05:24 CDT, 29 August 2008 - iMsg

Spore is now available in its "pre-loaded" form over at

EA Games.

"From Thursday 28th August, exclusively on EA Store, you will be able to pre-load Spore in your download manager, which means you do not have to wait for it to download upon release on the 5th September."

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CQ3 at ClanBase (39 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Saharak @ 09:38 CDT, 28 August 2008 - iMsg

Few weeks have passed since the CQ3 Summer Cup held by ClanBase ended. The cup attracted a lot of players despite the summer time.

Final Standings

The purpose of this cup was to find out whether CQ3 has the required competitive potential and whether players enjoy playing it or not and I say with pleasure that it made the grade!

This resulted in opening of a CQ3 OpenCup. Sign-ups for the OpenCup are in progress and all players are more than welcome. More precise information is available on the cup page.

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WCG Admin Talks Drug Use in E-Sports (56 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by lolograde @ 08:53 CDT, 28 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: WCG'08

Gameplayer.com.au has an interesting interview with the Australian tournament admin for the WCG on the topic of drug use in E-Sports.

Excerpt,

"In one WCG, a player I knew took amphetamines an hour before his match to boost his reflexes. His team ended up losing the match, although it certainly had an impact - his performance helped his team to win one map out of three - it kind of hits home that only the really talented will come out on top in the end."

The rest of the interview can be viewed here gameplayer.com.

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QuakeWorld Duel League (18 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Hawr1x @ 06:35 CDT, 28 August 2008 - iMsg

The QuakeWorld scene has a new Duel league coming up, you are free to sign up and have some fun with QuakeWorld.

Deadline for sign ups is 9th September and all you need to do is get account on its official website and Sign Up for this league.

At this time, there are about 80 players signed up and all of them will be divided into Divisions by skills of each player.
You are free to tell admins yours level by comparing you to other players signed up or known by scene. Players

Maplist of this league is classical: DM2, DM4, DM6, ZTNDM3 and AEROWALK. Matches will be played on BO3 and players will face all opponents in each Division. Rules

Official channel for this action is #QWDL on QuakeNet

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ESWC Quake3 Finals - Cypher wins (1003 comments)

( Major News: Q3)

Posted by Nicky @ 02:16 CDT, 27 August 2008 - iMsg

Event: ESWC'08

Scheduled: 12:00 CDT, 25 August 2008 to 21:00 CDT, 26 August 2008
Schedule: Passed

It's over. Handshake between Cypher and K1llsen. POV demos can be found on the ESWC FTP.

Final Standing:

Map Pool:

GTV:

Scorebots:

Group Stage 1

Groups:

Matches and Fixtures:

Group Stage 2

Groups:

Matches and Fixtures:

Final Bracket

Matches:

Main Stage Schedule:

ESWC Finals :: Quake3 Schedule :: LIVE Stream :: Demos

#ESWC :: #ESWC.Q3

Seedings & Groups :: ESWC 2008 got Dirded

Cooller threatens to punish ZeRo4, Eastern Trio talks

Pre-ESWC talk: chance, rapha, dkt

Slasher interviews czm on losing to Cypher and his Quake 3 career

Slasher interviews griffin on his ESWC performance and the difficult monitors

Carmac interviews Cooller on ZeRo 4 and an unfair system

German coverage at fragster.de

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Quake2 EuroQ2l #10 (47 comments)

( Major News: Q2)

Posted by CAREEM @ 22:56 CDT, 25 August 2008 - iMsg

European Quake2 League (EQ2L) is an online

Quake2 teamplay 4 versus 4 tournament since 2003.

"It is again that time of a year when it is time to change beach to Quake2 and sun to your monitor light, because Euroq2l is here with its 10th edition. wision is leading the way again and he opened the signups yesterday evening. You have two weeks to gather your team and join the league. Signups will be closed on 5th September. League format is still a bit unknown, since it is impossible to know how many clans will signup so it will be decided later, but basic rules will remain same, which you can find here."

Currently signed clans

List of five Quake2 favourite div1 clans

Previous EQ2L winners:

#euroq2l (on Qnet).
Quake2 download . Click "Pobierz" to download.
Q2scene, all about Quake2!

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CPL Back in Business (237 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by Nicky @ 01:33 CDT, 25 August 2008 - iMsg

Update on Cadred.org

"Cadred has been researching into this deal and can confirm this is not a fake. Having spoken to Ms Summers from her office in Dubai, she has confirmed that this is a legitimate deal, and we are waiting for more information from her office regarding the buyer.

Although Angela Summers has had links to Game Frontier in the past, a phone conversation with Jaffer Mir has revealed that they knew nothing of this takeover bid.
After lengthy research we have unearthed the buyer of the CPL brand, however due to current contractual agreements that the buyer is currently involved in, we will not yet reveal his identity.
What we can reveal is that we believe his involvement in CPL will be a big boost for the brand name, and could really turn CPL's fortunes around."

PRESS RELEASE
Monday 25 August 2008 – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate and Dallas, Texas, USA – NewWorld.com, Inc., a leader in the interactive entertainment industry in the USA has announced that its intellectual property,

Cyberathlete Professional League® (CPL) has been acquired by an investment group based in the United Arab Emirates.

Statements:

Founded in June 1997, the CPL is a pioneer in professional video game tournaments and over the course of ten years hosted 60 international main events, sanctioned 600 international qualifiers and awarded $3 million in cash prizes. It began as a small LAN event in Dallas, Texas, and went on to initiate world-class competitions across five continents.

Further details and marketing contact information will be released before the end of September 2008.

Source: TheCPL

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