Jason Lee submitted this score report.
Three more matches for the WC3L Season XIII Qualifiers were played yesterday, clearing up a lot of debate. Guess who’s winning? It’s the new kids on the block that are bringing home the gold.
mTw vs egamespoint.Thermaltake
mTw-KiWiKaKi vs. egp.TtLucifroN7 0:1 – Not needed
mTw-NightWOlf vs. egp.Ttnicker 2:0
mTw-Satiini vs. egp.TtTargA 0:0 – Not played
mTw-Rainbow vs. egp.TtBeckS 2:1
mTw-Satiini & mTw-KiWiKaKi vs. egp.TtLucifroN7 & egp.TtRyo_ 2:1 Read more »
The final matches of the StarCraft Ever OSL Round of 8 took place on Nov. 30th with some fast-paced and exciting performances. The players were forced to play the final map in these best of three match ups leaving the following results:
Up Magic > Hwasin 2-1 Match 1, Match 2
Jaedong > Light 2-1 Match 1, Match 2
Bisu > Savior 2-1 Match 1, Match 2
Stork > Flash 2-1 Match 1, Match 2
The semifinal matches will begin next Friday, Dec. 7th with Bisu facing off against Stork and Jaedong taking on Up Magic. The final four players will battle it out in best of 5 match ups, with the first two maps shown on the first week. Deciding maps will be played the following week on Dec. 14 after a second week of strenuous preparation in each players’ respective practice house.
This is a column I originally published on GGL.com last July. In response to the recent nonsense about videogames being almost as dangerous as smoking, I decided to edit, update, and republish it.
I am a pedant. I care about language and words, and how they are used. Use language with exactitude and precision, and one can convey deeper meaning with fewer words. In other words, eschew obfuscation.
What do the following six situations have in common?
1.) You are playing Grand Theft Auto 3. After enjoying the off-screen services of a prostitute, you beat her up and steal her money.
2.) In Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, your 1st level female Halfling rogue smashes open a wooden crate with her +1 morningstar, and steals a stack of gold coins.
3.) In Halo 2 multiplayer, you frag an opponent from a hidden position with a sniper rifle, putting a round into his head.
4.) Down on Hollywood Boulevard, you avail yourself of the services of a prostitute. Afterward, you beat her up and steal her money.
5.) In Beverly Hills, you smash open a store window with a crowbar, and steal some gold jewelry.
6.) At the urging of your adult male friend, you hide along Interstate 95 with a Bushmaster XM-15 semiautomatic .223 caliber rifle, and kill an innocent stranger by shooting her in the head.
Any sane person will recognize that the first three scenarios are markedly different from the second three. Yet in standard American English, each scenario is described as “violent.” Read more »
Nintendo today revealed that Virtual Console games will be getting an update to give them new Wii-specific functionality. Pokemon Snap, coming to the Japanese Virtual Console Dec. 4, will now include the ability to send pictures to your friends as well as upload them to your Wii message board.
This comes as a surprise because Nintendo had originally been adamant about keeping Virtual Console games identical to their original releases. This gives hope to gamers that perhaps Nintendo will allow for online play in classic games such as GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64. Now maybe I’ll be able to find someone who can give me a challenge when playing with sniper rifles in the temple.
Read Virtual Console games get Wii features!
Former members of the Ken Levine’s BioShock team parted ways with 2K Boston and created their own studio, still under the 2K brand. The new 2K Marin, located in the Bay Area, is looking to hire a Lead Animator and Character Concept Artist.
This news just raises all sorts of questions. Why part ways with a team that has made one of the year’s best selling, critically acclaimed games? Why stay under the same publishing house? My best guess is that one of the design team is working on BioShock 2 while the other team starts a new franchise. Have an idea what they are up to, or speculation? Let us know by leaving a comment.
Read: Ex-BioShock Members Form New 2K Games Studio
The fans did not find out whether it is Pandemic or MoB.TurtleForce that is the best WoW 3v3 team in the world. The $45,000 check for first place will have to gather dust until tomorrow, as the final of ESL’s WoW tournament at DreamHack was rescheduled for 14:00 CET Saturday.
If there was one tournament where the big favorites were to be shocked, it was this one. It was organized in to salvage the 2007 WoW Arena season, so abruptly ended by the shutdown of the World Series of Video Games. Blizzard and ESL decided to pick up the pieces and hold a $75,000 event to give the teams a chance to cross their virtual swords one last time. Read more »
Today on Epileptic Gaming:
Kyle Peschel, producer of Timeshift, will join us today in the studio! Not only that, we actually had a real life confrontation with the Stickydrama.com guys. See what happened when they visited the office (it wasn’t pretty).
Tune in and weigh in live today at 7PM ET/4PM PT on epilepticgaming.ggl.com and wire.ggl.com, thanks to the magic of Stickam and uStream, and check out Kyle’s epic rant in an interview with Summa.
Fábio Abrantes contributed this news item.
Two new (to XBLA) titles have been announced for Microsoft’s microtransaction service. The first one is Gripshift, a racing game already available on the PSP and PlayStation Network. Developers Sidhe Interactive claim this to be the “definitive” version of the racer.
According to XBLArcade.com: “The XBLA version will feature 4-player multiplayer, leaderboards, 120 challenge levels, 25 races, and 20 deathmatch arenas.”
The second confirmed title is a personal favorite: Chessmaster is getting an XBLA version, according with Ubisoft, titled Chessmaster LIVE. Read more »
Fábio Abrantes contributed this news item.
Earlier this week, Rockstar Games updated their GTA IV webpage with some new content and the cover of Grand Theft Auto 4.
Along with the usual wallpapers, avatars and stuff like that is the announcement of a new GTA IV trailer coming Dec. 6, and the final cover art for one of the most expected games of all time. Check it out to get hyped for the new game.
Related: GTA IV delayed until 2008
Darren Marshall contributed this report.
Circling around the rumor mill as of late is an interesting story regarding the firing of Gamespot editor Jeff Gerstmann.
Apparently due to his low review score, a 6.0, on Kane and Lynch: Dead Men for the PlayStation 3and Xbox 360, Eidos Interactive allegedly has threatened to pull their advertising on Gamespots main page, which right now commands a large percentage of the Gamespot’s layout.
While the firing of an employee is most certainly not news worthy, the surrounding issue is what is most intriguing.
Many consumers base their purchases off of review scores. In an attempt to spend money in all the right places, lots of them choose to wait for the reviews to flow in before committing to the purchase of a game. The issue here is, what if the reviews that potential consumers are taking as a gamers opinion, are actually biased, influenced by advertising dollars and perks for dishing out high scores? Read more »
The MoB TurtleForce team beat their from MoB TurtlePower in the upper bracket final of ESL’s WoW 3v3 Arena tournament at DreamHack. They are now waiting for whoever comes out of the lower bracket to fight them for $45,000 for first place.
The match attracted a full mini-stadium of people in Hall C of DreamHack and a packed stand near the ESL area. Apparently, World of Warcraft is not as bad a spectator game it is claimed. Perhaps more than in any other country, the title has got mainstream appeal. It is enough to say that the jaw of the waiter in a restaurant in the center of Jonkoping dropped to the very floor when he found out that he was serving food to Blizzard employees that made the game. Read more »
Sony’s PlayStation 3 sold more units than Nintendo’s Wii in Japan for the first time this month, according to Britain’s The Times.
Sony sold 183,217 PS3s in the island nation in November, against sales of 159,193 for the Wii.
This is bad news for Nintendo, which has seen the Wii sell as many as six times as many units as the PS3 in recent months. Read more »
