GGL Wire

Feb

Why are the Digital Games significant?

Filed under: 2008 Olympics, Beijing, Beijing Olympic Welcome Events, BOWE, bukaku, DG, Digital Games, gaming cakes, GGL, Mario, Olympics, Q2, Q3, Quake, quake 2, quake 3, Shanghai, The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

I’ve read my fair share of mixed commentary since the Digital Games announcement, much of it devolving to hatred for organizers, game choices, or debate over whether or not gaming is actually a sport.

In my personal opinion, though, all of these things are tertiary to the goal of getting competitive gaming and “e-sports” more mindshare in the general public. I’m not just speaking about the general gaming public, but the huge amount of people who don’t play games and don’t think they’re cool.

If a Welcome Event at the 2008 Summer Olympics catapults competitive gaming even more into the mainstream with games that aren’t necessarily accepted by the traditional e-sports communities, I’d be fine with it anyway. Keep in mind that I grew up on Quake/2/3, on the arcade-style, deathmatch game that doesn’t really exist anymore anywhere in the North American continent. It could come back, but probably won’t. Continued…

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Digital Games, Opinion, News, E-Sports

Mahmood Ali

Feb

Quakers Week 5 updates

Filed under: #qwrookie, Captain Nod, deamatch, demos, first person shooter, fojji, FPS, Magnus Olsson, match report, multiplayer, nQuake, Online, origami, Q2, Q3, Q4, Quake, quake 2, quake 3, quake 4, Quake Nations Cup, quakeworld, QW, replays, Shambler

If you are interested in Quake or want to follow up on competitive coverage, you should check out Quakers Week. The picture on top is a Quake-based origami and you like it, you should definitely visit Captin Nod’s homepage.

The fifth issue brings you info about all Quake scenes and most tournaments that are right now played. If you don’t care about playing Quake but you are curious about current state of these lengendary games, you might also like some new movies from Quake 3. If you are lucky enough that you already know Quake, some demos might come in real handy. Continued…

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News, E-Sports

Pavel Kymla

Jan

Quake Nations Cup - Week 2

Filed under: Belarus, Brazil, Cypher, Czech, e sports, Finland, first person shooter, fojji, FPS, Germany, GTV, Italy, multiplayer, NDML, Netherlands, Online, PG24 Television, Q1, Q2, Q2Scene.net, Q3, Q4, QNC, Quake, quake 2, quake 3, quake 4, Quake Nations Cup, quakeworld, QW, Scandanavia, Serbia, sLONKEN, Sweden, Week 2

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…

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News, E-Sports

Pavel Kymla

Jan

Quake Nations Cup: Live groups draw Jan. 14!

Filed under: Cooller, Danskie, European Quake, Falcuma, fojj, geo, GTV, Ironbyte, Jocko, Krysa, Makaveli, PG24 Television, Purri, Q4TV, QNC, QTV, Quake, quake 2, quake 3, quake 4, Quake Nations Cup, razor, reppie

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…

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News, E-Sports

Pavel Kymla

Aug

Johan “Toxjq” Quick in interview

Filed under: Av3k, FPS, quake 2, quake 3, quake 4, QuakeCon 2007, quakeworld, Toxjq, WSVG

“I didn’t install Quake 2 before the event, I thought it would be really tough to win the tournament, but I was confident with Quake 3 and Quake 4,” says Johan “Toxjq” Quick, the winner of QuakeCon’s Quad-Damage tournament two weeks ago. GGL Wire talks to the Swedish Quake 4 superstar about QCon and the upcoming WSVG tournament in Toronto.

Aug

The paradox of QuakeCon

Filed under: fojji, qcon2k7, quad damage, quake 1, quake 2, quake 3, quake 4, QuakeCon, Toxjq

Now that it’s all over and done with, everyone’s had some time to decompress and examine the 2007 edition of QuakeCon.

Sure, there were delays, and some things could have gone better. Overall, however, I want to take the time to thank the QuakeCon volunteers for doing essentially what is a thankless job. Continued…

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Opinion, E-Sports, Video

Mahmood Ali

Aug

QuakeCon 2007: Quad Damage tournament finals demos

Filed under: fojji, qcon2k7, quad damage, quake 1, quake 2, quake 3, quake 4, QuakeCon, QuakeCon 2007, Toxjq

Donnie “SyncError” Domino stated today that QuakeCon admins have demos of every single game played in the Quad Damage tournament, and they will be released shortly.