In an interview with Chief magazine, Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling was grilled about the state of CoD4 as related to e-Sports. The results were less than pleasing for e-Sports fans, as is often the case.
Bowling said:
CODTV is something we’ve constantly been talking about internally throughout development and even now and something I still think is a possibility for a future PC update. We’ve met with the creator of the original CODTV and discussed what may be needed or what we can do, so it’s definitely a possibility, right now we’ve been focused on patches and mod tools updates, but that is something that’s being looked at.
Doesn’t sound too promising to me. However, at least it’s on their radar; I can’t say that id cared much at all about GTV despite its obvious utility. Of the few developers of “e-Sports titles,” only Valve has stepped up with SourceTV so far.
Read the full interview at Chief Magazine.
Week 2 of Quake Nations Cup has just started with two Quake 3 Matches. First, Sweden won in three maps against Italy. fojji and sLONKEN played great games for the Scandanavian Quake owners, while Polterizer was one of most important players for team Italy.The second game was between Serbia and Belarus. Even with Cypher in the Belarus lineup, Serbia managed to win in three maps.
You can check all Week 2 matches on the official homepage and on channel #Quakers.ws there will be info about all matches, GTVs and scorebots. Continued…
It’s been 10 years since gamers first feasted their eyes on the one true racing simulation experience, Grand Turismo for the PlayStation.
Announced today, Gran Turismo 5: Prologue will finally hit North American soil on April 17, 2008. The game will be available for purchase in two forms. There’s digital download from the PSN, which will run you $40 dollars, and gamers will also have the choice of picking up a hard copy for the same price. The hard copy will feature a behind the scenes hi-def video entitled “Beyond the Apex.” Continued…
After the live draw of the Basic Groups in the Quake Nations Cup, we moved to Week 1 of matches in TDM across the Quake series.
The first match of the Quake Nations Cup was played between Sweden and Austria. Both teams played a really great game and fojji and Noctis showed audience on GTV how to play on DM7 and PDM6.
Check the match report.
In the Quake Nations Cup, there are 28 nations in 68 squads made of 486+ Quakers in QuakeWorld, Quake 2, Quake 3 and Quake 4. Every nation has its own page with an overview of all of the teams’ games. Teams add their contact info to their profiles in order to schedule matches.
The dates and times for your favorite nations cup matches are there also, so you can check it out at the QNC site. Continued…
There are just few days until the Quake Nations Cup signup deadline on Jan. 13. On the same day, seeding for QuakeWorld, Quake 3 and Quake 4 will be published on the QNC website. Quake 2 base groups will be selected by NDML admins and will be announced later. On Monday, Jan. 14, a live draw of basic groups will be presented on PG24 Television. The draw show begins at 20:00 CET.
There are currently 22 national teams with 47 squads. The first nation that completed a “QuadRun” was Sweden; they already have a squad for each Quake TDM. Finland is close behind with almost completed QW squad and other nations compensate for missing Quake 2 squads by two teams in Quake 3. Czech Republic, Germany and Hungary are among those. The most powerful Quake country is Russia, with full 5 squads.
- Every Nation can sign up 2 squads per game. Read more about the rules here. Continued…
