Archive for November, 2005

Counter-Strike CPL Tournament has $300,000 in prize money

Monday, November 21st, 2005

From Valve’s Steam news:
The CPL has announced its 2006 Summer Event, which will include a CS event that offers $300,000 in cash prizes to be distributed to the top 64 teams, with $90,000 going to the winning team. To enter your team, visit www.TheCPL.com/register/.
I’m not quite sure if this is just original Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike […]

Over $100,000 a year playing games

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Want to make a lot of money playing games? Become a pro gamer. Johnathan Wendel has been pulling in big bugs for years winning game tournaments and through sponsorships.
He says he made about $110,000 in 2000, his first pro year, and has been consistently earning a respectable salary built on play he considers work. This […]

More Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter screenshots

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

More screenshots from the next Ghost Recon game have been released. These screenshots still appear to be from the console version. The screenshots show combat in both urban and a rocky desert environment — all south of the US border in Mexico. Its been revealed that the storyline involves a scenario of unrest in Mexico […]

More dumb-ass lawsuits

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Move over Jack Thompson, there is a Chinese lawyer who wants to take your place — Zhang Chunliang. He is suing Blizzard in China because a 13 year old boy who played World of Warcraft decided to kill himself. The comparison to Jack Thompson is no joke either. Zhang too is a self promoter, he’s […]

Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox360 Preview

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Gamespot has posted a preview of Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox360. The writer asks whether this game could be the Xbox 360’s Halo — in other words, the killer “app” for the 360. Perfect Dark Zero is looking promising with an in-depth single player game as well as the must-have split-screen and online multiplayer. Judging […]

More Xbox 360 reviews

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

More reviews of Microsoft’s brand new Xbox 360 are coming in. This impression article is from Gaming Nexus. In it the reviewer sets up Xbox Live in about 30 minutes.

I had picked up NHL 2K6 and Condemned: Criminal Origins before dinner and since I’m one of the few hockey fans left on the face of […]

Final Fantasy XI for the Xbox 360

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

1up.com is reporting that Final Fantasy XI will be released for the xBox360. That leaves me wondering, will we be seeing Final Fantasy XII for the Xbox 360 too? I hope so, because the screenshots for PS2 looked a little, well, dated.

PC Gamer announces new editor-in-chief and complete overhall

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

I’ve been a reader of PC Gamer for years. Probably picked up my first issue back in 1996. They have a new editor, Greg Vederman, and he’s looking to shake things up a bit. The old editor has been promoted to associate publisher so they needed someone to fill in his position.
My first issue as […]

Amped 3 Screenshots

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

VoodooExtreme has posted screenshots of Xbox360 snowboarding game Amped 3. These widescreen screenshots of snowboarders look pretty impressive. In case you missed it, Kotaku also posted screenshots from Amped 3 a few days ago — a little granier, probably a lot closer to what the game will look like on your crappy old television set.

Best Buy threatens gaming blog

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

From Kotaku.com –
Best Buy wasn’t that delighted with the 26-page document leaked to us and the stories we wrote off it and they slapped us with what amounted to a cease-and-desist order claiming we were posting a copyrighted document.
Pick up your new Xbox 360s somewhere else folks.

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