Feb.
15, 2005
Second Sight Out Now
Redefining
the standards for stealth action gameplay, Second Sight which
combines a psychological thriller with paranormal psychic abilities,
stealthy exploration and intense shooter action, will be published
for the PC.
Take control of John Vattic, as he awakens from a coma in a
US medical facility where he has been subjected to traumatic
surgery and experimentation. With the ability to psychically
influence characters and remotely manipulate objects and individuals,
John Vattic must try to escape and unravel the mystery that has
led to his imprisonment.
Visit the Official Website
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TXGF Presents the
ATI Ultimate LAN Dallas February 25th-27th
Texas Gaming Festival Presents The ATI Ultimate
LAN!
ATI has
a SECRET, check it out at the Dallas “ATI
ULTIMATE LAN” February 25th-27th where the world will experience
the unveiling!
AUSTIN, TX (Feb. 14th,
2005) - This Winter Texas Gaming Festival presents the ATI
Ultimate LAN Dallas February 25th-27th. Fair
Park's Food and Fiber Pavilion will house tourneys and contests
with over $30,000 worth of cash and prizes. >From Friday to
Sunday the action will be non-stop 24 hours a day, and will include
ATI's secret unveiling.
A $10 entry fee which goes to charity will get you in the door,
and TXGF is now accepting sign-ups for the BYOC LAN event as
well as its many tournaments, which include the following games:
Counter-strike Source, Counter-Strike 1.6, Battlefield 1942 Desert
Combat, Battlefield Vietnam, and Half Life 2 Deathmatch.
The headlining Counter-Strike Source Tournament, sponsored by
ATI, has a $5,000 purse. ATI is also providing $2,500 for Battlefield
Vietnam, and a number of Radeon video cards for additional prizes.
We are excited to
once again be working with ATI this time in Dallas." said Chris Tom, Director for TXGF. "It
is the perfect venue for them to
showcase their best-of-class video cards to a demographic of
power-hungry PC users.
“
We are extremely pleased to sponsor TXGF in delivering a world-class
LAN party experience for gamers,” said Ian McNaughton,
Senior Marketing Manager, ATI. “As the industry leader
in discrete graphics, we owe much of our success to the gaming
community and are looking forward to delivering three action-packed
days of fun and excitement.”
"Kingston is proud to sponsor the ATI Ultimate LAN. TXGF
along with our friends at ATI are putting on a great event. We
will have Kingston HyperX and DataTraveler on hand for winners
of Counter-Strike 1.6. There will also be plenty of Kingston
HyperX swag and prizes!" Jaja Lin HyperX Marketing Manager,
Kingston Technology Co., Inc.
“OCZ is excited to sponsor the upcoming Texas Gaming Festival
ATi Ultimate LAN,” stated Alex Mei, VP of Marketing, OCZ
Technology “LAN events of this magnitude allow us to support
the unique needs of gamers firsthand, and personally meet and
greet some of the premier up and coming cyber athletes.”
At TXGF, gamers will compete against each another on high-end
gaming machines powered by the AMD Athlon 64 processors with
ATI's RADEON video cards. Winners of the tournaments will be
awarded various prizes, including PC hardware and cash. Those
not competing in the gaming tournaments will still have the chance
to win prizes in the case-mod contest, overclocking contest,
and Pimp My PC.
For the latest news and full details visit TXGF.com.
Sponsors and exhibitors supporting this event include:
ATI
AMD
Kingston
Gigabyte
Abit
OCZ
3Com
Ubisoft
Atari
Running With Scissors
Prize and SWAG partners include:
Thermaltake
XG
Maxtor
Sapphire
Shuttle
Corsair
Bawls
Icemat
Geil
GamerzStuff
ComputerGeeks
About TXGF
The Texas Gaming Fest, based in Austin, Texas, builds on the
experience of Tom Publishing LLC - a company that has produced
top-quality hardware websites that attract hundreds of thousands
of unique visitors every month. This fan-base has helped create
a loyal following of a high-tech demographic - perfect for
the LAN event atmosphere. TXGF's Lans Across Texas program
is bringing events all over the state in 2005.
TXGF events create a festival atmosphere, where video gamers
converge to hang out, showcase their skills, mingle with their
peers, and just have a good time.
Providing a high-energy, safe and supervised atmosphere, TXGF
organizes the infrastructure: music, food, gaming celebrities,
the on-site technical architecture, sponsors exhibitors, prizes,
etc. Pre-event promotional activities include radio spots, print
media advertising, college and high school kick-off programs,
etc.
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Take the Red
Pill on March 22 – Jack into The Matrix Online
The Matrix Online Launches March 22, 2005 in the
US and April 8, 2005 in Europe.
The highly anticipated continuation to the Matrix film trilogy,
The Matrix Online will begin unveiling a story full of twists
and action when the game is released in March in US and April
in Europe. The massively multi-player online game co-published
by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and SEGA has been in
beta testing for months and features many of the original talent
from the films - Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Monica Bellucci
(Persephone), Mary Alice (The Oracle), Lambert Wilson (The Merovingian),
Harold Perrineau Jr. (Link), Harry Lennix (Lock), Nona Gaye (Zee),
Collin Chou (Seraph) and Tanveer Atwal (Sati).
Fans who pre-order The Matrix Online will enjoy the added bonus
of special in-game abilities, access to the beta and an early
entrance into the game. There's still time to take the plunge
and pre-order; simply go to: http://thematrixonline.warnerbros.com/preorder.html.
The Matrix Online will be sold through all major game retailers
for a suggested retail price (SRP) of $49.99. Gamers can either
subscribe online for a monthly subscription fee of $14.99 or
purchase pre-paid game cards with 60 days worth of play time
for $29.99.
Developed
by Monolith Productions in conjunction with the Wachowski Brothers,
creators
of the Matrix trilogy, the game is a re-creation
of the virtual world of the Matrix. The visually stunning game
employs cutting edge 3-D graphics, networking and server technology.
Gameplay in The Matrix Online is based on intricate and exciting "wire-fu" combat,
an extensive mission structure, social interaction and completely
customizable skill and ability system.
Visit
the Official Website
Feb.
13, 2005
MIDNIGHT CLUB
3: DUB EDITION Site Update - Classic & Muscle Cars...
SAN ANDREAS Coming to Xbox & PC... and MORE
MIDNIGHT
CLUB 3: DUB EDITION Site Update - Classic & Muscle Cars
"Last
month, the official Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
website was released, featuring
the six floor Dub shop customization garage and showroom.
At launch we revealed the SUVs/Trucks and Import Tuners floors
- showcasing the Cadillac Escalade, Lexus IS300, Hummer H2,
Nissan Skyline, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Mercedes G500 and
more.
Now, we unlock another of the six floors in the Midnight Club
3: DUB Edition garage.
Floor 05: Classic and Muscle Cars.
Featuring the following revered vintage rides...
The 1968 Pontiac GTO
The 1969 Chevrolet Camaro
The 1964 Chevrolet Impala
The 1968 Chevrolet Corvette
* Just a few of the classic hot rods in Midnight Club 3: DUB
Edition. Check the site for the full list which also includes
the '78 Monte Carlo,
'70 El Camino, '57 Chevy Bel Air and many more...
Enter the garage and view these cars in a 360 degree spinnable
view both as stock and as fully suped-up deluxe models -
as well as exclusive brand new screenshots of each car in action.
Then visit the customization shop, and trick out each of these
selected cars with the trimmings of your choice.
Rims, body kits, colors, and more...
Just a tiny swath of the practically infinite customization settings
that will be available to you in Midnight Club 3.
Then take the cars to the streets - to see videoclips of each
of the featured cars tearing up the pavement of Atlanta, Detroit
or San Diego.
Midnight
Club 3: DUB Edition is coming to the PlayStation®2
and Xbox® on April 12th, 2005 (April 15th, 2005 in Europe).
Also coming soon to the PSP™ handheld entertainment system."
Visit
the Official website
SAN ANDREAS
Str8 Jack move giveaway contest deadline extended till Feb.15th
Less than a week remains to enter the Grand Theft Auto: San
Andreas Str8 Jack Move Giveaway Contest.
Your only chance to gaffle up a limited edition San Andreas BMX
bike and prize pack straight from Rockstar Games.
Hit up www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas/contest for all contest
details.
The entry deadline has been extended until February 15th, 2005.
Feb.
07, 2005
Second Sight - New
Etoy Available Now
"Can
you hone your psychic powers and help the Codemasters' warehouse
fill their Second Sight orders without dropping them? Play
our fantastic Etoy and find out!."
Download
the Etoy here
Feb.
03, 2005
Cheaters Taking Over
our Games?
Author:
Scott Mikules & Greg Headler
"Games, Games, Games! We're all addicted; we all
have our favorite ones, and ones we hate. Through all the blood,
gore, and shoot-em up action, we still face one huge alternative
problem: cheats. Online gaming has become one of the biggest
and most sought for types of entertainment since broadband became
widely available. But with high-speed, so have viruses, porn,
and cheating with online games."
Read
the full article
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Codemasters Specialist
Research Panel Invitation
If you want to become a part of this research panel
we will want
to know more about you; the reason we need this information is
because when we're running research projects we often want to
ask
opinions of different types of gamers, and this information will
help us fine-tune who we send surveys to.
If you sign up, you may receive quite a few surveys or none,
depending on what games we need to research and what your interests
are.
Important: all of this information is kept confidential under
the
Market Research Society's Code of Conduct.
So, what's in it for you? Well, if you want to opt in we'll
have
various rewards, probably in the form of prize draws.
If you are interested please click here for more details
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Epic just got bigger
"With
the ability to command your army from the Stone Age through
the nuclear powered near-future, there's never been a real-time
strategy game more epic than Empire Earth®.
That record
will hold until Empire Earth II's arrival this spring. The
highly anticipated
sequel will push the bar for real-time
strategy games even higher by introducing over 500 unique buildings
and units, 15 unique epochs and civilizations, and a host of "why
didn't they think of this before" innovations."
Watch the
new Empire Earth II teaser trailer
Feb.
02, 2005
St. Louis Gaming -
Warfactory LAN @ Legit Reviews
We would like to let you know that Legit Reviews
has just published an
article on the Warfactory LAN Party from this past weekend.
"This nice "bunker-style" concrete room was the
perfect setting for some
major gaming action! As I mentioned, 74 systems running and fragging
is a
beautiful thing! There were some pretty slick looking cases on
those
tables. One that comes to mind was an amature custom rig with
a Mario
Bros. theme..
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the full article
