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( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 20:09 CST, 27 February 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 28 February 2016 to 15:00 CST, 28 February 2016
Schedule: Passed

The Warsow community organises a weekly Duel tournament!

This weeks event will take place at 11:00 CST on Sunday 28th February. Check-in opens 30 mins before. You can sign-up on challonge.

Format

Maps

Map Picking

Rules

Admins:

User490584,

Leshka
Stream:

Leshka
Links: Sign-up, Official Announcement,

#callvote

Edited by PerpetualWar at 07:30 CST, 28 February 2016 - 5059 Hits

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QuakeLive Old Maps Online Duel Cup #13 (2 comments)

( News: QL)

Posted by xou @ 09:12 CST, 27 February 2016 - iMsg

http://goodgame.ru/channel/Kaintt/

http://goodgame.ru/cup/2738/grid

nao

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CS Pro League - 2015 Highlights (No comments)

( Movie: CS)

Posted by ika @ 17:07 CST, 26 February 2016 - iMsg




	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Rating: 2.8 (8 votes)

The CS Pro League has released a new frag movie showing some of the best plays last year.

major pls =}}

Edited by ika at 17:14 CST, 26 February 2016 - 3056 Hits

Valve lights it up for CS:GO (56 comments)

( Major News: CS)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 15:37 CST, 24 February 2016 - iMsg

On the official Counter-strike: Global Offensive blog, Valve has released an announcement. All Majors, as in tournaments, have had the prize pool of $250,000 which has never been exceeded by any tournament until now. Starting with the upcoming MLG Columbus 2016, which takes place March 29 through April 3, all future CS:GO majors will have a prize pool of $1 million!

Apparently the prize distribution will be as follows:

With this kind of financial support that Valve is putting into CS:GO, they hope to bring in even more players and viewers. According to Valve, CS:GO was the second-most watched game on Twitch in 2015, League of Legends being the first, of course.

On a side note, Valve has released another update for CS:GO fixing some current bugs. You can check the release notes.

Links: Official Counter-strike: Global Offensive blog, Valve, release notes, MLG CS:GO press release

Edited by viaIImaximus at 01:34 CST, 25 February 2016 - 24793 Hits

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QuakeCon 2016 Tournaments Announced (279 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by SyncError @ 09:16 CST, 24 February 2016 - iMsg

Event: QC16

To celebrate 20 years of Quake, we’re pleased to announce this year’s official tournaments to be held August 4-7, 2016 in Dallas, TX in the Wedgwood Ballroom at the Hilton Anatole Hotel.

Players from around the globe will once again come together to compete for their share of $25,000 cash in the QUAKEWORLD 2on2 Team Deathmatch Open and the Quake Live masters will be invited back to battle for the 2016 title in the QUAKE LIVE Duel Masters Championship.

Official QuakeCon 2016 Tournament details and registration information can be found below:

QUAKEWORLD 2on2 TDM OPEN:

QUAKE LIVE DUEL MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP:

For all the official details on QuakeCon tournaments and trials, including rules, requirements, prize money distribution, pool of arenas and additional information, visit www.quakecon.org.

Edited by zaggs at 15:45 CDT, 12 May 2016 - 169631 Hits

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Quakecon 2016 tourney format announced! (10 comments, locked)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by fnx-za @ 09:09 CST, 24 February 2016 - iMsg

Quakecon 2016 will consist of a Quakeworld 2v2 TDM as well as a Quakelive Duel Masters tournament!

From Quakecon blog:

QUAKEWORLD 2on2 TDM OPEN:

The QUAKEWORLD 2on2 TDM Open will feature a competition for up to thirty-two (32) two-player teams battling it out in a double elimination bracket and best-of-three games format. Teams who come out on top will share prizes of $25,000, including $12,000 for the team of champions.

To register for the QUAKEWORLD 2on2 TDM Open, interested competitors can visit the QuakeCon tournament area on-site in the Wedgwood Foyer from 10:00am to 6:00pm CDT on Thursday August 4th for participation availability.

QUAKE LIVE DUEL MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP:

Our last QUAKE LIVE Duel Masters Championship was in 2014, and since then we’ve upped the ante a little bit. The QUAKE LIVE Duel Masters Championship will once again feature known professionals and top QUAKE LIVE competitors in an exclusive tournament. Up to thirty-two (32) of the world’s best QUAKE LIVE players, hand selected by veteran tournament staff from the open online registration, will face-off in the 1 vs. 1 duel for $25,000 in a double elimination bracket, with each match played in a best-of-five-games format. In the end two competitors will remain and thousands will gather to watch as these two best-of-the-best survivors go head-to-head in a single elimination, best-of-five-games throw-down with a $12,000 check written to the champion.

Source:

Locked by Teen Queen at 13:41 CST, 24 February 2016 - 3394 Hits

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Headshot: Casual browser shooter! (111 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by mikolah @ 12:10 CST, 23 February 2016 - iMsg

Many of you have seen 8PLAY tag in the name of one of the best QL players -

Evil. For some of you it would be interesting to know the story behind it. One of the famous old school quaker

Jibo has founded in Russia his own game publishing company named INFIPLAY. Recently with both

Cooller and

Mikes (producer for EU and RU versions) he released their first game with localization for European auditory - Headshot. It is a casual online-shooter in browser, inspired by classical era FPS games like Counter-strike and Crossfire. Best thing about the game is that to play you don't have to download any kind of plug-in. Just create an account and start playing, give it a try and say your thoughts.

YouTube trailer

Screenshots

Links: Website

Edited by Nico_QD at 12:10 CST, 23 February 2016 - 71774 Hits

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#NACTF.QL Draft Tournament #2 (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by THUNDERBOSS @ 01:59 CST, 23 February 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 16:00 CST, 28 February 2016 to 22:00 CST, 28 February 2016
Schedule: Passed

We would like to thank everyone who played in our inaugural event and made it a success! We will be hosting our second CTF Draft Tournament on Sunday 16:00 CST, 28 February 2016. The sign-ups are open now, and players will need to confirm their availability on the day of the tournament. Players are encouraged to join #nactf.ql on irc.quakenet.org and play some CTF pick-up-games to practice and get hyped up for the tournament.

Format

Map List

Tentative Schedule

Further Details

Stream:

FlairTV
Links:

VOD, WebChat, Challonge

Edited by flair at 02:40 CST, 29 February 2016 - 8067 Hits

DOOM multiplayer update (69 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 15:04 CST, 22 February 2016 - iMsg

Bethesda.net just released a new short article about DOOM's multiplayer. What is presented in this article are two things, a new mode and new items. Warpath being the new mode in DOOM multiplayer features a "king of the hill" type of mode with the difference in capture-points being in circular motion. To quote this rather complicated explanation:

Meanwhile, a game-changing demon rune moves in lockstep on the opposite side of the path. Players have to decide where they want to be: rushing toward the power-up to turn into a Marine-destroying Demon; clustered around the capture point to defend or steal control; or simply roaming around looking to pick off any errant foes.

There's a gif in the article showing brief in-game action.

The second new feature named Hack Modules represents single-use disposable items. Apparently, these items will be available to you through game's progression system (XP points?). What makes these items a bit different than to what we are usually used to, are their properties. One being a Supply Timer which displays respawn timers on pickups and this is 'awesome' because and I quote:

So when you’re running through the world, you might see that an armor piece is coming back in 10 seconds and you could decide to hang back and take it.

Other Hack Modules include Retribution, Scout, Vital and Power Seeker check the article for more detailed explanation about each one of them.

How these will function and affect the game we will just have to wait and see. The item idea is not bad at all but I would rather see it in some sort of a tutorial or training about duels or TDM. That would give the new players who are entering the FPS arena games for the first time, some insight on how timing and opponent positioning works.

Links:

DOOM Twitter, bethesda.net , article

Edited by viaIImaximus at 14:40 CST, 23 February 2016 - 21946 Hits

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Site summary for week ending 19 Feb (2 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by ESReality @ 16:00 CST, 21 February 2016 - iMsg

Weekly Awards

Popularity

Betting Competition

New Columns

New Articles

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22 Reasons to Love Doom League (WDL) (7 comments)

( News: Gaming)

Posted by writhe @ 15:14 CST, 21 February 2016 - iMsg

1. Doom 2 CTF
2. Its playoff week
3. mouselook + doomguyjumps = rjumps :)
4. STATS
5. INSANE STATS
6. CTF is best
7. Better than quacklive
8. 1000$ endorsement by

JKist3
9. DOOM 4 compat
10. WDL YOUTUBE
11. Radio Show op lol
12. Intl vibez
13. Player base bigger than qlive
14. Twitch casts by

DevastatioN and

DemonSphere
15. Odasex
16. free cansdy
17. This post will be majored
18. shit what else lol
19.20.21.22. BEST NEWS POST WOT WOT U EXPECT M8

irc.quakenet.org #wdl

PLAYOFF TEAMS

"If you're not satisfied, we're gonna send someone out to suck your cock."

Edited by writhe at 21:59 CST, 22 February 2016 - 6315 Hits

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Callvote.net Warsow Sunday Duel Cup #3 (4 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by CrazyAl @ 19:50 CST, 19 February 2016 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CST, 21 February 2016 to 15:00 CST, 21 February 2016
Schedule: Passed

The Warsow community organises a weekly Duel tournament!

This weeks event will take place at 11:00 CST on Sunday 21st February. Check-in opens 30 mins before. You can sign-up on challonge.

Format

Maps

Map Picking

Rules

Admins:

User490584,

Leshka
Stream:

Leshka,

ArenaFPS
Links: Sign-up, Official Announcement,

#callvote

Edited by CrazyAl at 12:00 CST, 21 February 2016 - 5545 Hits

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Quake games at #DICE2016 by FACEIT (38 comments)

( Major News: Gaming)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 06:19 CST, 19 February 2016 - iMsg

With this year's D.I.C.E. Summit 2016 ending (Feb 16-18) we are starting to get some interesting tweets from its participants. One of those participants being Alessandro "stermy" Avallone as the co-founder of FACEIT who made several tweets featuring Quake games at their FACEIT booth.

Show pic

Apparently even a competition was held with Sean Dunn (General Manager at Big Huge Games) winning the FACEIT D.I.C.E. 2016 Quake Championship!
You can find a short video of the competition and FACEIT booth pictures on

stermy's twitter!

Some words about the summit itself and I quote their website:

On a side note this year's AIAS awards went to Fallout 4 for Outstanding Game Direction and Game of the Year!

A few words on what AIAS awards are quoted from their website:

EDIT: Did some digging around and came across this. Definitely there was a small tournament, and judging by the names these are mostly devs.

Links:

Stermy,

FACEIT, DICE 2016 summit , AIAS , Stermy website,

ddk tweet

Edited by viaIImaximus at 12:07 CST, 20 February 2016 - 11784 Hits

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Season 21 of EQL has gone live (12 comments)

( Major News: Q1)

Posted by Åke Vader @ 04:37 CST, 19 February 2016 - iMsg

A heads up for all the QuakeWorld lovers out there regarding the fact that the 21st edition of the European Quake League is under way. This season features, after a couple additional teams were added after signup deadline, two divisions with nine teams in each. Interesting changes to the league this season can be found in the map rules section where we have the traditional maps DM2, DM3 and E1M2 supplemented by the custom maps CMT1B, CMT3 and CMT4.

Regarding the teams they remain similar to last season in division 1 with the exception of Keystompers which consists of familiar faces making a comeback on the 4on4 scene;

Xerial,

Javve,

Dimman,

Messi/ET and

Dahmer among others.
In division 2 one can see that the Division 99 team, a breeding ground for new or returning oldschool players, has gone from two to four teams. Another addition is the Outdated team consisting of old school players

Link,

Sniket (from Clan 9) and the official inventor of the rocket boosted bunnyjump,

Sectopod, among others.

Links:

EQL 21,

Watch it,

Get QuakeWorld

Edited by Åke Vader at 04:41 CST, 19 February 2016 - 5460 Hits

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update (15 comments)

( Major News: CS)

Posted by viaIImaximus @ 13:54 CST, 18 February 2016 - iMsg

After the winter update fiasco (R8 overpowered weapon), Valve has released a new and huge update. Even though the highlight of the 1.6 GB update is the new Operation Wildfire, there are some tweaks to a couple of maps, too. According to various sources the update is surprisingly well received so far.

For the full list of changes check the release notes.

EDIT: Valve released a new update 122 MB in size. Now dealing mostly with bug fixes.

Also note that ESL Pro League and ESEA have rescheduled some of their upcoming matches due to the update.

Links:

Release notes,

Operation Wildfire,

ESL tweet,

ESL Pro League

Edited by viaIImaximus at 02:11 CST, 20 February 2016 - 11181 Hits

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