Hell yeah I'm back to make another irritating thread!


This is one thing that's interested me when it comes to gaming. Everyone always says "Do it on LAN" "beat [x] on LAN" "C U @ LAN" etc but the one thing that's interested me is the question of: Is LAN really the ultimate judge of 'skill'?

I say this because the main draw to why LAN is accepted as the way of showing who's better is due to pings, net, same hardware/surroundings etc.
The one thing in that list though that I feel is quite important is surroundings (that is, comfort levels)


Lets take one example. Strenx is always winning these weekend cups, even against people who looses to frequently at LAN. Is he winning them because of internet/pings/net or because he's more comfortable in his own surroundings (sitting in his bedroom or whatever with his own hardware). Is Cooller/Cypher frequently loosing to Strenx in these Zotacs because of the ping etc or winning at LAN because he has more experience and is more comfortable at LANs? More to the point, is Strenx loosing at LAN because of the comfort or because of the skill? If the LAN was situated in Strenx's bedroom, who would win...?



Just an interesting question really. I'm really playing devil's advocate here because I believe that LAN would be the better show of who's 'better' and do think that Cooller/Cypher plays much better then Strenx, but the question is still very valid

http://esreality.hexus.net/?a=post&id=1919524#pid1919524
http://esreality.hexus.net/?a=post&id=1920567#pid1920567

New devpick servers. CTF and FFA with all weapons and respawn.


Gotta say... Pretty good fun, but 200/100 might have been a bit much with the damages as they are in QL. I was going off 200/100 from a CPMA allweapon-FFA I played on ToP with 200/100 but then the rails etc have different damage there. Maybe 100/100 would be a better idea since it can take 4 rails to kill one guy (effort)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/ho...astle.html

The owner had been walking around the ancient castle with a friend when the pair spotted the lone transvestite on the morning of Saturday July 10th at around a quarter to twelve. He was wearing a black dress and walking around the steep-walled, empty moat.

As the two ladies spotted the cross dresser he ran away. Later one of the dogs chased after the man; by the time the women had caught up, the man was having sex with the pet.

Love the quote of: A spokesman for English Heritage said: "This was a very rare incident".





... Betting fixture on if it was Dird or not plz.

Yeah, I spelt it without a U because of firefox's gayed American spelling correction but screw it, I'm just going to say coloUr for the rest of this thread to cheese many of you off


Anyway, in another pointless thread serving nothing more then "well, I fancied bringing up the subject" I was watching the Formula 1 practices this morning. They aren't aired on TV but online but have drivers commentating on it (usually reserve/test drivers for the actual manufacturers racing that day). Today they had as usual Anthony Davidson (Mercedes) and Karun Chandhok (Hispania Racing).

Anyway, to come to this topic, they mentioned that much of the onboard equipment in the cars such as gear change lights, switches, various other steering wheel components and cockpit things are being switched from the common red colour to light blue because they did 'scientific tests' that showed that the 'human eye is more receptive to the colour blue' (I use quotation marks because that's what they said not me to avoid someone going off on one :P). Anyway, has anyone else heard of this (I did some searches around for it and couldn't really find anything) and does anyone actually use a blue crosshair or enemy model?

edit: just for the sake of it, here's a picture of a replica F1 2010 Ferrari wheel:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/depHmb0S1pk/0.jpg
Hands up who can guess which bit is sticking out the most :P

Here's another really interesting comparison from the F1 world. Same car, different drivers.
One driver (Mark Webber) has opted to stay with the old red lights for gear change (watch closely for the mid top bit of his cockpit): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyBnNpWr07Q
The other (Sebastian Vettel) is using the new blue lights system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRW74gpKWIc

It came to me noticing that many times I've seen pictures of whoever Quake player at a LAN over their shoulder, they typically have a green keel/bright with a light blue upper body (although I think a couple use a black upper body iirc). I also noticed that many of my favorite 'aimer' players to watch use light blue crosshairs. Probably a coincidence but I thought I'd give it a try for a while. Now, I'd say it's placebo, but with a light blue crosshair in various games, I actually found it a bit easier. It just kind of sticks out a bit more without you paying so much attention to it. Of the searches I did do on the subject, the only one I could find that had any relevance was that 'the colour blue has a stronger cognitive reaction' (that in laymens term I guess is that it's just more noticeable on a less conscious level)







Anyway, TL;DR?
I'm bored, so making a thread of what crosshair colour/enemy model are you using?
Also, if you've got nothing better to do and don't use a light-blue crosshair (guessing most don't), try it and say whatcha think

http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/index.php


Apparently the average is 215 milliseconds. A fighter pilot's is around 170~ (additional reading shows that any results between 0-140ish are usually disregarded due to people either pre-firing [if you will] or an anomaly)


Out of my first 5 clicks loading it up, my average was 183.3 with the quickest being 162.


Kinda thought it would be a little bit quicker - :[ but I guess in the grand scheme of things compared to other professions, a music bum clicking his mouse early in the morning getting that score can't be a bad thing :D


So without pre-clicking and on your first attempt, what was your score? :]

Was watching an old match (Rapha vs Noctis noless) with the old LG hitboxes and noticed a significant increase in beeps (in other words accuracy) and although I played with the old hitboxes, I don't really remember how the accuracies came up.

My LG is pretty decent now but I don't remember there being a significant advantage with the old hitboxes (most likely to do with damage though) and have no idea what I used to hit so have nothing really to base of accuracy differences. With strong LGers like Strenx and Stermy, how much did they used to hit % wise compared to now because as far as I can tell it's not a huge difference and was thinking to myself that as many others have suggested, going back to the old hitbox might level the playing field in terms of aggression/defense


Anyway, just a little food for thought. Brings up the old argument of is Quake an aim game or a brain game


edit: just to clarify since people are having a mardy, I don't mind either way which way the hitboxes are since I'm happy with both. I agree that the new ones reward better aim but the old ones as people have mentioned were more 'fun' to play on and may have given people in control a little more advantage

So uhm yeah... Mel Gibson went off on one huh?

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/07...en-it-here


I actually wanna listen to it for teh lolz but it's not available in my country :[
Anyway, found this musing http://www.cracked.com/blog/twenty-years-in-t...publicist/

Got sent this and laughed pretty damn hard
http://www.redcafe.net/f8/photoshop-arjen-rob...ost8311271

They photoshopped this image onto various things:

for teh lulz

http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/toxjq/43129138/TDM

\o/

Was a thread like this a while back for the ESL and I thought it was quite interesting so would do something similar. I can't find the original one so I'll make it up as I go along :D

So taking it from seeds in group orders as a summary for Jun. 23 2010 - Jun. 29 2010 [obviously there will probably be more games to go in the next 2 days]


Rapha - 125 games, 83 wins, 19 hours played
Cooller - 236 games, 156 wins, 2 days played
Cypher - 155 games, 100 wins, 23 hours played
Avek - 160 games, 90 wins, 2 days played

Noctis - 106 games, 67 wins, 15 hours played
Strenx - 128 games, 63 wins, 19 hours played
Stermy - 115 games, 52 wins, 18 hours played
DaHang - 157 games, 135 wins, 21 hours played

K1llsen - 55 games, 32 wins, 7 hours played
Bodzo - Unknown account. 0 games
GaRpY - 11 games, 8 wins, 2 hours played
Fazz - 82 games, 44 wins, 13 hours played

Careem - 8 games, 5 wins, 2 hours played
Sl1p - 47 games, 30 wins, 8 hours played
L1nkje - 78 games, 29 wins, 14 hours played
Dem0n - 9 games, 7 wins, 2 hours played


Interesting little fact - all of the arguably 'top seed' challengers have 100 games shown. DaHang has the most won among them (played mainly against members of the US scene) with Stermy having the least wins


As for competitors, here's how it stands:
Rapha - av3k, cooller, fazz, cypher, evil, stermy
Cooller - guard, l1nkje, av3k, rapha, stermy, strenx, agent
Cypher - shrek_ua, kaide, k1llsen, shantii, l1nkje, rapha, stermy, valvais, av3k, monstr_, skzis7ry, winz, bth, noctis
Avek - shrek_ua, rapha, k1llsen, sl1p, l1nkje, cooller, sadfac3, cny, shantiii, baksteen, guard, cypher, monstr_, skzis7ry

Noctis - strenx, krysa, labur, riderrrrrrrr, kypse, _unsteady, _fsm, w1ngnut, fa1nt, ppalvdis, assign, spart1e, l1nkje, cruel, airflair, cypher, stermy, cooller
Strenx - fazz, noctis, stermy, guard, cooller, agent, cypher, av3k, danv3r, exelf
Stermy - k1llsen, strenx, cooller, cypher, skipper_zxs, rajwal, qrt, various CA
DaHang - dkt, cha0ticz, tehnewbz, hpbkmrey, vamp1re, erickek

K1llsen - avek, stermy, cypher, fall_frag, fl1nstone, 1fallash, rapha, mutz, mrundhill, various CA
GaRpY - drugzor, dbsquared, tiestos, agent, redbulldozer, [nVc], havvk, dignitas_r2k, zik, sadfac3, various CA
Fazz - strenx, sadfac3, rapha, stermy, reaper, spartaz0rd, greenmeanie, cypher, jum8o, stylezz, bodzo, vhite, fooki, dk, krysa, zyv, spart1e, av3k


Careem - various CA
Sl1p - supqinox, insan3, ryfie, p0ni, av3k, spartaz0rd, cooller, reaper, madix, sombra, eyecry
L1nkje - cooller, av3k, cypher, various TDM/CTF/CA
Dem0n - vurteh, randallflagg, rimgal, alfaomega, strenx, cicc1, smaugy, guard, spart1e, fox, noctis, madix, various CA





For top 4 seeds [so far], most played and least played maps:

Rapha -
Most Played - ZTN [32]
Least Played - T7 [16] or T4 [1 - against Cypher, loss]


Cooller -
Most Played - ZTN [123]
Least Played - T7 [16]


Cypher -
Most Played - T7 [34]
Least Played - ZTN [16]

Avek
Most Played - DM6 [43]
Least Played DM13 [12] or T2 [in a match against a random guy for 35 seconds - he won]





Not entirely sure how the last thread went about dong it (whether it was automated or actually counted) so If anyone can help with most played/least played maps that'd be great. Not sure how to do that for the past week without actually counting them up (effort) so if whoever made the last thread (I can't remember who) can clarify that'd be great. Also, with weapon frags being introduced to matches, that might be shown as well (worth a shot)

Slow mo CA...


Two... Frags... In... Two... Seconds...


...


...


EXCELLENT

Maybe I just haven't noticed it before, the map does look familiar and reminds me of something someone put up on the QL forums that you could download and exec through console. called something like dm666. Just wondering if this is only me and I've downloaded some weird custom map a long time ago and forgot or if it's actually an update (since there was a downtime and when I came back on found it there)

Basically, in the practice window there's no option to run the map, but if you enter a game and vote for it, you can play a map called "Hall of Doom" which seems to be yet another rune map. Fairly interesting, fairly big.


I'll add some images in a bit if nobody can be bothered to load it, but was this always in the client or is it new with the maintenance update which just happened?

Okay, screenshots below, but it's a pretty huge map with lots of rooms so couldn't be bothered to take all of them.



edit: okay, what Avenger said with custom content is probably right. I never actually saw this before, haven't downloaded anything and got kicked tonight due to maintenance update so assumed this might be it. I guess I randomly downloaded some [very genuine] looking CTF map, forgot about it and now for some reason shows up in votemap ;[

Y U HIT HIM IN FACE?

May I just approve of ID's ability to make a DevPick which makes rage all the funnier.

Invisibility? That isn't exactly fully invisible? On CTF?! With low tier players?! LOVE IT.



Played it on 2 maps tonight, and the amount of people complaining that people were cheating because they could see them was awesome.

Tip of the day:
Kill yourself a few times in a spot, collect all the invisibilities together and megalulz troll people by hiding around corners with gauntlets to piss them off

For the duration of the world cup, to get fully into the mood of things, I will be using this browser in order to look through threads on ESR.

I suggest you all do the same


http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/esreality.hexus.net/

Since a few people gate-crashed another thread, I feel this awesome show deserves a thread of it's own, if not just for the quotes...


Personal favorites:
Oh and I know you're the big marriage expert, oh wait, that's right! Your wife is dead!.... I'm so sorry... - Tobias

Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist. - Tobias

Doooooouuuuucchhhhhe chiiilllll - Tobias

C'MON - Gob

Bob Loblaw: Actually, I was going to stay in my office tonight and work on my law blog.
Tobias: Of course— the “Bob Loblaw Law Blog.” Wow. You, sir, are a mouthful!

Tobias: I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid i have something of a mess on my hands.
Michael: There's just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence.

Michael: [...] With your magic tricks
Gob: Illusion, Michael. A trick is something whores do for money... *looks at children* ...Or cocaine!

I've made a huge mistake - Gob

Her? - Michael

I'm afraid I just blue myself - Tobias

Video game fanatic hunts down and stabs rival player who killed character online

Julien Barreaux, 20, told police he wanted to see his rival player "wiped out" after his character in the game Counter-Strike died in a virtual knife fight.

A court in Cambrai, northern France, heard how Barreaux plotted revenge for seven months after the online "killing" last November.

He then located the victim, named only as Mikhael, several miles from his home.

When the man answered the door, he plunged a kitchen knife into his chest, missing his heart by less than an inch, a police officer told the court.

He added: "Barreaux was arrested within the hour and told us he had wanted to see his rival wiped out for killing off his character."

Barreaux was jailed for two years for causing grievous bodily harm, and ordered to undergo psychiatric tests and anger management therapy.

Judge Alexiane Potel told him: "You are a menace to society. I am frankly terrified of the disproportionate reaction you could have if someone looked at you the wrong way in the street."





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/eur...nline.html
So much fail. France and counter-strike.

Do you like simulators? CHECK
Do you like, the number... 200 and... 2009? CHECK
Do you like trucks? CHECK
Do you like lifts? Or, elev, elvae, elerlate... if you like lifts? CHECK
Do you like forks? CHECK






Needs multiplayer

www.thecpl.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10181246.stm


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It's been well documented that Blizzard have been having trouble in talks with KeSPA recently.
The disagreement was around the broadcasting rights for Starcraft II tournaments. KeSPA claimed that Blizzard's demands were too strong whilst Blizzard felt their IP rights were not being respected. After months of negotiations, strange power plays and various events, Blizzard appear to have finally given up, and are now set to join forces with GOMtv according to Team Liquid.

GOMtv whilst considered less popular then KeSPA, has had a stronger English speaking following in the past due to them streaming English commentated matches (hosted usually by Tasteless and LiLussie) as well as WC3 events.

Blizzard appear to be having a successful time in Korea currently. Not only are they set to have a new broadcasting partner, but managed to overturn the 18+ rating on SC2 for Korea


Links: Team Liquid

Scheduled: 23:00 CDT, 27 May 2010 to 00:30 CDT, 28 May 2010
Schedule: Passed

As the end of the Starcraft 2 beta draws close (May 31st), one last show-match between the teams of Fnatic and Meet Your Makers is being hosted by GosuCoaching for Thursday the 27th at 9pm PST.

Fnatic's Payam Toghyan aka TT1 and MYM's Dan Stemkoski aka Artosis face off in a bo5 which looks set to be entertaining as both players believe they have used the maximum amount of time to develop their skills in the SC2 beta. It is also likely to be one of the last professional matches from the Starcraft II beta phase.

Date: Thursday, May 27th, 9pm PST
Prize: $100 USD
Maps: Best of 5, map elimination, with Incineration Zone and Desert Oasis being ousted.

Stream: GosuCoaching, Livestream
Info: GosuCoaching, Fnatic, Meet Your Makers

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=160388...4081492862


Awesome thing someone sent me recently, if not just for the comment "realty is a crutch for peeps who can't handle drugs"

Post on it. For t3h lolz.

Get ready for a TL;DR thread (first person to post it inevitably gets a plus), but it's quite a funny story anyway

Many of you may remember a thread I made a while back concerning my Steelseries Siberia headset breaking (not once but twice). Also, I have a 7G keyboard (which I love to pieces) but the keycaps can often crack after heavy use (not rage, but just hard tapping). They're made by Cherry or something and can be hard to get replacements.

Anyway, story starts about a year ago...

Take one. I e-mailed Steelseries support asking if they could send me replacement key caps for the 7G keyboard. Couple of e-mails were exchanged and eventually they said they would send me a set asap and to give them my address. Happy with this result, I gave them the address and waited for a reply. Couple weeks pass when I receive and e-mail saying "your keys have been sent". Que forwards a few months and no keys have been sent and I'm still stuck with the broken keys (which I'll tell you now can be a pain in the ass to use). Keys never arrived and I got sick of the keyboard so actually ended up stinking up a huff and sending it back to the people I bought it from (play.com). Having got a new keyboard, the keys followed suit (I dunno, maybe I rage afterall) so I ended up finding a small British company that were great enough to send me replacement key caps. There was nothing wrong with the keyboard itself, just the caps were quite prone to breaking (they have little x's to attached them to the switches which can crack). Anyway, problem solved!

Fast forward a few months and I need a new headset. I was going to go with the Sennheisers but just as I was about to buy them, Steelseries brought out the Siberia V2. Being a bit of a tech-head with music engineering, I checked out the stats and found them to be pretty damn good for the money (almost the same as the Sennheisers at half the price). I took the plunge and bought them. Weeks pass and they're awesome. Sound great, feel pretty swanky. SUDDENLY (capitals for dramatic effect), the bass frequencies disappeared. Don't ask me how or why, but all the bass left the headset and I was left with a honky mid-range sound that felt like my ears had been hollowed out.

Take two. I e-mailed mainly to ask them what the problem was as I could still return the product to Amazon but was interested if this was a fault that was frequent and if it would happen again. No reply but I decided to take the replacement since the headset was great when it worked (and hell, if it does happen again, at least it'll be quick and I can send my hair-ridden old one for a swanky new one :D)

Second headset arrives. Works fine for months. All good so far... Rather irritatingly, whilst in a mix, the microphone gave up, crackled, gave out a last eep of life and then died. If I flicked it occasionally it would work, but it was done for. Being passed the return period I had do the inevitable and contact Steelseries.

Take three. I e-mailed Steelseries again expecting nothing in return. Surprised I received an e-mail stating that they were sorry that the product was not working and they would be happy to send a replacement (where have I heard that before ey!) Going along with it (and fully expecting to be trolled) I sent an e-mail back asking if they had any info on the keys for the 7G, along with my address for the replacement Siberia headset. I also mentioned I had a Xai mouse and was wondering if there was an accel firmware fix (I knew the answer would probably be no, but hey, nice to throw it in there to show I'm a loyal customarrrr huh?) I received an e-mail back saying that they would send a replacement for both items and they would be shipping by the end of the week (derp de derp). Cue forwards a week or so and I sent a polite reminder e-mail asking if anything had been done about this. The response was that they had sent the replacements out with DHL and to expect a tracking number soon.

Eventually, another e-mail followed with a long number that was meant to be the tracking number. As you would, I went immediately to DHL to check the tracking on it. "We have no record of this package" was the message I found before me. In the words of Rapha - c'mon..

I phoned up DHL and probed around trying to find out if this package actually existed or if I was being trolled. Again, no records again and they told me to contact the seller again.

Take four. I e-mailed Steelseries again asking if they had actually sent the package or just headbutted their keyboard's num-pad to make up a tracking number (ok, I didn't actually say that, but that's what I was thinking). A few days pass over the weekend when I receive an e-mail to tell me "Oh right sorry, we're with Fedex now... not DHL!"

What a development! So I check up Fedex and I found that a package had actually been sent and was in Brighton's depot. Somewhat expecting a box with some dog turd in it due to trolling, I was somewhat hopeful that they actually had sent something.


Needless to say, I was somewhat surprised to find this when the package came this morning (shitty camera phone picture incoming):

This just had me in stitches
3:00 = awesome.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8663742.stm?ls


¬¬

... because it chewed through my mousefeet :(

Got one to try out - never been a fan of hardpads but I found a large version for half the rrp price brand new and I had some spare money (I always justify impulse purchases in terms of how much it would have been on a night out or down the pub. So basically, it was a few pints worth... It helps in some retarded way)

Have to say though, this thing is awesome. Somewhat uncomfortable on the wrist for long use, but the feel is great. Haven't experienced tracking issues (on any of my old reject mice either) and the sweat roblem people have mentioned really hasn't been a problem at all. The downside to the pad is the wrist support (can rub against the edge a bit since it's not padded. Usually I hang my cloth pads over the side of the desk) and the mousefeet destruction

Anyway, I hate it because I wish I thought about skates before I used my Xai on it for too long. After a day's worth of use, I turn it over to find the stock mouse feet scratched to fuck (bit of a nobrainer, but still). It came with SS ms glides (useless for Xai) and I didn't want to stick those horrible padsurfers on (they left horrible marks last time I tried them) so does anyone know the best option for replacement feet? Not from the SS site because postage on them is ridiculous (although ideally I'd want SS glides). Dunno about corepad (anyone have any experience with them?) and the puretrak feet I got really aint what I'm looking for (they add a bit more friction then the stock feet).


TL;DR? - Icemats are cool (geddit?)

WIN.

http://akinator.com/

So to cut a long story short, the headset I'm currently using has joined the (ever increasing) scrapheap.
I seem to go through headsets fairly often. Honestly can't explain why, but small things will happen to just piss me off (one headphone will stop working, microphone stops working, cracking sounds, sudden crappy quality...). Try as I might to fix them, it often doesn't last long and it's just a constant distraction (NOT good)

So, can anyone suggest a headset that will last or at least has a fucking long warranty?

I've already gone through cheaper Sennheiser PC1XX series, Steelseries Siberia (V2), Logitechs and various no-name shitty ones.

The only ones that last (surprise, surprise) are audio recording/production headphones (IE, Audio Technica's or Sennheiser's recording ones etc) but they don't have a microphone and I don't particularly want to use an external microphone - it's a pain in the ass (inb4 jokes about - well don't stick it up there then)

So, if you've used a headset that's lasted, that's good value for money or has a warranty, post it here. If you also have the same problem as me and have ever breaking headsets, feel free to rant as well.

Couldn't help but laugh at some parts... (and yes we all know it's not their first language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5absBYZH_OQ

This guy did

http://www.break.com/game-trailers/game/starc...ta-breakup

Given the thread earlier on in the year about dubstep, I thought I'd make this little thread in dedication to one of my favorite [BASS HEAVY] genres (neurofunk)
I can't stress how large the grin on my face is right now having just got ahold of Phace's new album.

Hotly tipped to be one of the best dnb albums to come out this year (Noisia stating: "If you're anywhere near interested in drum & bass and the exploration of sonic logic and depth you cannot miss this album. Nobody goes where Phace and Misanthrop go.")

All amazing tracks, but here's some I'm listening to alot atm (second tracks a bit repetitive compared to the rest of the album, but it's just got the sweetest bass line breaks)

WCG has just announced three titles to be included into the WCG10 lineup.
These include, Starcraft Brood War, Fifa 2010 and Asphalt 5

There were worries that The World Cyber Games would leave out Starcraft BW due to Starcraft 2 being released (albeit in private beta) but this morning, they announced that it would be included in this years lineup.

This year's WCG will be held in the United States (in Los Angeles) and titles will include Warcraft 3, Counterstrike 1.6, TrackMania Nations Forever, Carom 3D, Guitar Hero 5, Forza Motorsport 3, Tekken 6 and now Starcraft Brood War, Fifa 2010 and Asphalt 5.

Last year's gold medal winner was Jae-Dong Lee (JaeDong) with silver being picked up by Song Byung Goo (Stork)

Former CPL president Angel Munoz has attested the legality of the company's transition to the new owners.

Question marks had been raised regarding the process after Tonya Welch revealed the new CPL owners had initiated negotiations regarding the purchase of the company without ever having any money to back up the deal.

Welch had claimed that Scott Valencia, the new CPL boss, had even gone as far as to pretend he had an investment group based in the United Arab Emirates behind him and to engage in a series of actions to make the whole deal look legit.

Munoz has now stressed that the new owners, who "required privacy", have been keeping their end of the deal, which will be concluded in the summer.

"The question is: Has the new CPL been making the payments owed to us as part of the acquisition? The answer is yes," he said on his personal blog.

"This is important because within the last year the purchase price has increased significantly due to the final acquisition of the CAL brand, the inclusion of an extended licensing agreement, the purchase of our last 10% interest in CPL and the addition of other related assets."

Munoz, who classified Welch's words against the new CPL owners as a "personal quarrel", added he was never told "the investors were from Abu Dhabi, just that the investment company would be incorporated there."

Meanwhile, Welch has released parts two and three of her blog, which you can find here


Credit goes to HLTV for the article

In an attempt to bring SC2 more in balance with SC1BW then WC3, Team-Liquid is presenting 'SC2 ProMod", a mod for SC2 that changes various elements to make it more competitive.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=117987

Things like auto-mining, surrounds, various units, buildings and the max-unit selection have been changed.
A detailed list can be found here:
http://www.sc2promod.com/features.html

Interesting for me personally, thors look more like goliaths, hellions more like firebats and immortals/stalkers behaving slightly more like goons. Also, there is only one geyser at the base and the higher ground advantage is back


However, rumours are that this is an early Aprils Fool...

Just a heads up that Steam are doing a 'mid-week' bundle thingy for Quake.

Obviously you can still pick up most the Quakes dirt cheap (or less) from various sources, but I always found it rather easy to have all this shit in one place on Steam, so here it is:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/434/

Just a heads up that the fnaticMSI CS1.6 team is doing some matches against the Swe community site Rakaka tonight at 19:00CET. I'm expecting some rather noobish matches from looking at the comments (apparently it'll be f0rest's first 1v1 match lolz) but still, SC2 matches that are commentated live are still fun to watch

http://www.fnatic.com/news/7078/FnaticMSI-lt-...clash.html

Patrik 'cArn' Sattermon stated the following about the upcoming challenge:
"The Starcraft 2 beta is here and what's better than celebrating that with a FnaticMSI vs. Rakaka shoot-out to determine if the progamers are more prone to pick up a new game or if the awesome writers from Rakaka will prove themselves worthy against the FnaticMSI progamers. You won´t see any hardcore micro but I do think the matches will be very exciting and me, f0rest and threat have worked out some tactics which will be revealed tomorrow at 7pm CET. May the best team win!"

http://www.thecpl.com/

Anyone else noticed this? Countdown been put up

Or just being an emo douche?

edit: how do I add a poll? :(

Meh.

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/832661/5f45d2..._baas.html

Right, I got some amazon vouchers as a late Christmas present and I dunno quite know what to get, so what would you guys get to try out. I'm talking mouse/keyboard/mousepad. Headphones are a no since I got some great ones. Anything up to about £50

Right now, the contenders for what I'd wanna try out are:
Razer Abyssus
Steelseries Kinzu (not really, since I got a Xai and happy, but maybe...)
Razer Imperator (really not convinced, but I'd give it a try maybe)
Some kind of hard plastic mousepad (use cloth for a long time and happy, but maaaaaybe...)
Anything else you can suggest


Anyway, whatever... I can't decide on something


Update - Plenty of the voucher left over, but I bought a copy of Deus Ex. Just because it was cheap and... because it was Deus Ex