EnemyDown Acquired by Heaven Media
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2 Dec 2009, 21:45
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Heaven Media, publisher of leading websites for enthusiast PC hardware, gaming and esports, today announced the acquisition of EnemyDown, including its propriety X-Ray Anti-Cheat software.
EnemyDown launched seven years ago and made its name as one of the first sites to facilitate online tournaments and leagues.Today EnemyDown supports titles ranging from popular console titles such as Fifa 2009 to some of the biggest games in esports, such as Counter-Strike.
Included in the purchase of EnemyDown is X-Ray Anti-Cheat and Mixes. X-Ray is of course the highly used anti-cheat software used by many leagues and tournaments around the world, and Mixes, while currently offline, is a formerly popular service that gives you an easier-than-ever way of getting into a quick game!
"EnemyDown gives Heaven Media another dimension to its media offering. Within the group of sites a visitor can read about the top gaming hardware, the biggest game releases, the teams and players in the professional field and now they can themselves play in some of the best run tournaments and leagues in the world." said Heaven Media’s Managing Director, James Reed. "In addition this supports our move this year into events, following the success of the Game Zone, run by Heaven Media each year at the Gadget Show Live, in Birmingham’s NEC."
"Heaven Media purchased this group of sites as we felt it would compliment what we already had in our portfolio, and it gave us a chance to grow our group, and at the same time support the community in rebuilding what was once a great set of websites," said Heaven Media's Corin Cole. "Given the choice of allowing these brands to fade and die or purchasing them, as gamers at Heaven Media it was a no-brainer. If we hadn’t purchased them, there was always a risk that they could disappear forever, and we couldn’t let that happen."
You can read a full set of Questions and Answers with Corin Cole on this page.
However ED has long since had it's day. For the top teams ESL is the main online competition, ED is for "lower league" teams, however even that isn't entirely true anymore.
ED's 2 "big" games are CS:S and DOD:S, but all the CS:S and DOD:S admins recently left en-masse due to the perceived commercialisation of ED as it became involved in UKeSA.
As things stand ED is pretty much dead in the water.
The former CS:S and DOD:S ED admins have formed a breakaway league (not yet launched), and if that takes off ED won't really have anything to offer except an ancient and bugged website and fond memories of past glory.
I guess they're planning on raping the name for all it's worth as it's still well-known!