HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM CLANBASE The ClanBase Crew would like to extend our seasons greetings to everyone by wishing you a very happy new year. Tonight when the clock strikes midnight we will welcome the start of a new year. A new year to meet new people and full of new opportunities to change your life so start thinking of those resolutions now. We also wanted to thank you for your support and dedication to the ClanBase community over the past year. We are excited to have you and have many and exciting …
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With the new year at the doorstep, we want to remind you all that tonight is the last deadline for signing up as captains for the new NationsCup Season that was announced just two weeks ago. After midnight we will commence the second stage of the captains election process - the voting stage. The new year will bring us the second phase of the new captains election system: The actual voting process. After midnight tonight (and if you’re not too drunk to do it), you’ll be able to vote for your favourite …
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It is the seventh and last day of the ClanBase’s Christmas giveaways - and today we are giving you once more the chance to win a: ROCCAT Limited Edition Fridge (energy drinks included) The ROCCAT Limited Edition Fridge If you are some sort of avid fridge collector this is your chance (or if you like to have your beer cold and close at hand). If you want to have a chance of winning one of these, then all you have to do is answer the following question correctly, which in this case may be very hard, …
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PlayStation 3 owners everywhere are counting down the days until Killzone 2 is released on Feb. 27. Gamestop announced today that in order to get the Killzone 2 demo you have to pre-order the game. Available both in store and online, gamers just need to fork over $5 to get demo access. Those who buy it in store will get a card with a code that has access to the demo. Those who choose to pre-order it online will receive the code via email. Demo access begins on Feb 3. There are no details as to how long the demo will be or what it will feature.
What do you guys think about this? Personally I’m not a big fan of the pre-order to get the demo thing. I always felt that demos existed to help boost sales, not satiate the ravenous hunger of fan boys. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.
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GGL and the CW’s Fear Is Real have teamed up to bring you a Left 4 Dead team competition where you can duke it out for pride and prizes. Want to crush the Survivors? Swap over to the Infected side and hunt them down!
Players can compete on Xbox 360 or PC in 4v4 combat. The competition consists of one ladder per platform, with the top three teams on each ladder earning prizes. Here’s the prize breakdown:
First place: 4 video games per squad. Specific games TBD, but will be recently released games from GGL’s library of new games.
Second place: 2 video games per squad. Again, specific games TBD.
Third place: 1 video game per squad.
Add Left 4 Dead to your GGL collection to begin. You will be prompted to login/register when adding the game, after which you can join the ladder.
Good hunting!
It is well known in the gaming community that the week after Christmas is a notoriously bad time for new games to come out, making this week’s “Release Roundup” seem futile. I was contemplating not writing this, but then it hit me: Who am I to judge the games that come out this week? Who knows; maybe one of you might really get into one of these titles.
Leaving all my pretentiousness at the door, here are the games hitting stores this week.
PC Games:
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Some details have emerged about the forthcoming downloadable content for Valve’s zombie survival horror shooter. According to Valve writer, Chet Faliszek a proper announcement on the new content was due ‘before Christmas’. In this Kotaku video podcast, Faliszek confirmed that the new material will include additional scenarios: …what we want to do is just deliver more content you can play at this point. He added that the new content will be released simultaneously for te PC and Xbox 360, unlike …
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In a recent interview, Valve writer Chet Faliszek revealed some details about Left 4 Dead and downloadable content. According to Faliszek, the first batch of DLC will arrive “shortly.”
While specific details were slim, Faliszek stated that Valve will release new scenarios for both the Xbox 360 and PC which will arrive on both platforms at the same time. Also included in future patches will be the addition of the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns in versus mode. Faliszek also revealed that PC owners can expect a Left 4 Dead SDK, allowing gamers to create custom maps and modifications.
There was no discussion of DLC price, however it is expected that PC gamers will get the new content for free. Xbox 360 gamers probably won’t be as lucky.
Read: Valve Teases Left 4 Dead DLC Reveal Soon, Simultaneous Xbox 360 Release.
On Christmas Eve, Worlds.com, a company I’ve never heard of likely because it’s never done anything worthwhile, left a steaming pile on NCsoft’s doorstep. It filed a lawsuit claiming that NCsoft infringed on an obscure patent, #7,181,690 - System and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space, in bread-and-butter MMOs like Guild Wars and City of Heroes/Villains.
This isn’t as much a case of NCsoft infringing on proprietary technology as it is a case of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sucking more than a $2.33 hooker by awarding such a vague patent to begin with.
After all, the kindly-worded press release in which I received this information noted that this patent, and another owned by Worlds.com (#6,219,045 - Scalable virtual world chat client-server system), could apply to all 3D worlds everywhere. Somewhere on the internet, an owl is hooting mockingly.
The explanation behind all this? Naturally, Worlds.com is hoping for an easy settlement. It has a patent but no obvious technology aside from a screenshot showing a floating IBM cube in a pixelated Second Life environment, while NCsoft has MMOs that are reasonably well-known in the west and are/were explosively popular in Asia. I can thusly sum up the challenger’s business model in four easy steps:
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After a ladder phase fraught with disputes and bitter defeats, the Big Air Gaming League’s Call of Duty: World at War competition has moved into its bracket portion.
16 teams advanced to the brackets, and cramming matches into the last week of ladder play definitely catapulted a couple of teams to the next level. So far, no matches have been played in the bracket (thanks, Christmas), but here are our matchups:
#1 [W]icktown [K]illas vs. #16 TeaM FeaR
#2 Team cAv vs. #15 American Bad Ass
After taking over the top spot in the ladder, cAv fell to 2nd in the scramble at the end of the ladder phase. Still, 2nd seed isn’t bad, and could work out for them in the end.
#3 3rd_Degree vs. #14 Contrakt Killers
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Its day six of ClanBase’s Christmas giveaway and today we are giving you the chance to win a: ROCCAT™ Kone Gaming Mouse & limited edition trucker-cap ROCCAT™ Kone Gaming Mouse & limited edition trucker-cap http://www.roccat.org 3200DPI Pro-Aim Gaming Sensor 128KB On-board memory 4 Easy clip on weights Estimated value: €55 This is quite a treat, the ROCCAT Kone laser gaming mouse received a storming 10/10 review from
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Not to be confused with the reported release of DAMN:MW 0.59 earlier this week, the developers of the competitive mod have released a new version specifically designed to fit the needs of the European scene - DAMN:EU v0.59. The purpose of this new mod is said to be to unite the community under a single rule set, but with the same being said about Promod 4, DAMN:EU v0.59 looks like it’s just going to rock the boat. The change list does however, look pretty good from a competitive point of view. But …
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