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UT2003 Chat Log

By Maarten Goldstein, Aug 30, 2002 6:19am PDT

A fourth Unreal Tournament 2003 IRC chat log is up, offering more Q&As with Epic's Mark Rein who was anwering questions out of England (where he is...

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"This is true...but when that can't yet turns to can now, fighting games will have even more ..."

- Vorlonesque see all 27 comments

Corporate Counter-Strike

By Steve Gibson, Aug 22, 2002 11:42am PDT

Well here is something that will certainly boggle a few people. The CPL which plays host to the largest Counter-Strike LAN tournaments in North...

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"We're not talking about making games, but about playing them with corporate sponsers. CPL making ..."

- firehand see all 116 comments

Evening Reading

By Steve Gibson, Jul 26, 2002 6:00pm PDT

Ah, and the week comes to a close... I think I'll spend the weekend contemplating just how many people at Network Solutions that I plan to hurl...

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"Damn right. I'm borrowing a friend's season tickets for the pre-season game on Aug 29. I'll be ..."

- Dechter see all 2182 comments

Evening Reading

By Steve Gibson, Jul 23, 2002 6:00pm PDT

Been watching some bits of HLTV today of the big CPL event in between attempts to play the catch-up game with email. My inbox seems to be winning...

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"да = CCCP - Russian language, russian alphabet Da = SSSR - Russian language, ..."

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Evening Reading

By Steve Gibson, Jul 22, 2002 6:00pm PDT

Well today was certainly fruity. The big CPL Summer event is going on right now in downtown Dallas so if Counter-Strike is your thing check out...

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"Hitachi CML series has 16ms response time so ghosting should be minimum. Ordered one off newegg ..."

- lord cecil see all 2205 comments

UT2003 Preview

By Maarten Goldstein, Jul 22, 2002 3:39pm PDT

Brief Unreal Tournament 2003 impressions is up at the Adrenaline Vault, based on what they saw at the CPL Pentium 4 event where the game is being...

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"I dunno...it doesn't seem to be getting more hype than a lot of other games I can think of (I ..."

- Vorlonesque see all 20 comments

werd

By Steve Gibson, Jul 20, 2002 10:51am PDT

Enjoy the weekend folks. Have a look at that Battlefield 1942 demo while you're at it or pick up Warcraft3 for $39 here but I guess if you were...

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"I was tempted to set up a fan site for it when I imported it last year. It really is a cool ..."

- sinistarfith see all 2160 comments

Evening Reading

By Steve Gibson, Jul 19, 2002 6:00pm PDT

Well the woman is ditching me for a week as of tomorrow. I guess it's good timing in a way since the CPL event is this coming week and she's not...

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"Hurray, I got the Extigy working. Things to note: -It makes a P166 its biotch. -MP3s play ..."

- Omaha see all 2513 comments

First Post!

By Maarten Goldstein, Jul 11, 2002 8:08am PDT

We had a show on Counter-Strike on TV here last night. It was a documentary kind of show from a Canadian parent, who goes around trying to discover...

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"Demon's Crest, Earthbound, and Terranigma all had some cool final battles FF6's was awesome ..."

- Magitek see all 3721 comments

Mod Expo @ CPL

By Maarten Goldstein, Jun 19, 2002 5:33pm PDT

Got an email from Valve announcing the fourth Half-Life Mod Expo. Unlike previous years, it won't be held in San Francisco but rather in Dallas, TX...

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" where the hell is condition-zero? do they have a bunch of monkey/hawks programming that game or ..."

- Hathcock2500 see all 5 comments

CPL Gets $45million

By Steve Gibson, May 27, 2002 3:36pm PDT

Here's something you dont see every day. According to an article in Wired which has been confirmed by The CPL. The CPL has just finished up...

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" I was at the 4 year CPL and let me tell you, it was SOOO intense...Too bad the GOOD people ..."

- b00tsauce see all 49 comments

...For Different Folks

By Steve Gibson, Apr 14, 2002 4:22am PDT

A little while back I pointed to a story on ShackES looking at the popularity of a few games and mods and the communities that surrounded them. The...

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" I wish there was an ignore option for idiots just like you, Torias. I bet you check my profile ..."

- bigimp see all 93 comments

Different Strokes

By Steve Gibson, Mar 27, 2002 1:04pm PST

An interesting phenomenon has been happening over at the CPL while organizing their upcoming summer event. They are giving away $100,000 cash for a...

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"TFC tends to have very large teams (about 9 people per side) and therefore are very immobile. ..."

- h0cake see all 67 comments

CPL In Wired

By Steve Gibson, Mar 16, 2002 6:56am PST

Something to read for the weekend, here's a Wired article on competitive gaming. Just to piss people off they chose to throw the word athlete in...

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"Noone wants to watch dorks sitting in front of their PC's mashing buttons. Get over it."

- Eggnoodles2002 see all 4 comments

CPL Summer Registration

By Maarten Goldstein, Feb 25, 2002 11:59am PST

People who want to attend the CPL Summer event can now sign up. The event, which will be held from July 20 until July 24 in Dallas, TX, costs $50...

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" not really...considering they used Q2 and Q3 (and I think either CPL/Quakecon is using Q3 in ..."

- MrShmoo see all 22 comments