Each week I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news & headlines and notable games releases and updates.

Each week I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news & headlines and notable games releases and updates. It's been over 6 months since I've written this and Crossfire is a very different place right now.

Each week I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news & headlines and notable games releases and updates. It's been over 6 months since I've written this and Crossfire is a very different place right now.

For the past few years the online game distributor, Steam, has run a Summer Sale offering many of most popular gaming titles at greatly reduced prices. Selling everything from your Triple AAA Modern Warfares to your indie gems, the sale has each genre and niche covered, and is sure to tempt you over the next 10 days.

The Clanbase NationsCup XV brings us 8 top games tonight, running from 19CET all the way through to 22CET. All games are the first week of the Group Stages and we have enough games to entertain any avid Enemy Territory fan.

supply & bremen_b3 are the forced maps for all of tonight's games. In the case of a draw a deciding map will be played under the traditional elimination format, with the winner of the coin-toss choosing who eliminates first.

The first round matches can be seen below.If there are any errors involving lineups then please leave me a pm and I'll amend the post.

Each week I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news & headlines and notable games releases and updates.

Gaming News

After a SOPA overload in the past few weeks, it seems that there have been a series of mini-victories in a war that is still ongoing. US Congress shelved SOPA due to the huge public opposition and lack of support from US President Barack Obama - however, Congress has continued to try and push similar bills through. ACTA is the latest in the seemingly growing list of bills aimed at censoring the internet. The supposed threat of ACTA has been debated, with certain sources claiming that the bill is much stricter, more outrageous and frankly, far worse. Do your bit, read up on it and sign petitions.

Major League Gaming announced the first details of the upcoming 2012 Pro Circuit. There are some major changes to the scheduling, but as a casual viewer you probably won't notice much has changed. In short, they have moved away from their previous format and will now be running a new championship each season - starting with the Winter 2012 season on January 31st. StarCraft II will remain as the flagship competition for the upcoming year. Full details can be found on the MLG site.

The first major eSports tournament of the year, the Intel Extreme Masters VI, held in Kiev, Ukraine, got underway today. The event is live from the CyberSport Arena from January 19th - 22nd. After a hugely successful tournament calender last year, the ESL competition returns in again 2012 to bring us more intense gaming in the most popular games, casted by the most popular shoutcasters and with plenty of high quality live-streams to follow all of the action on. The event is holding three top competitions:

Each week I plan to cover the past week's latest news surrounding the world of gaming, including major tournament results, headline gaming news & headlines and notable games releases and updates. The past month has seen the Christmas & New Year period which is notoriously quiet for gaming news or major competitions - combine that with the Community Awards, CF 4 Beta Launch and the ET Guide - and we have a months worth of news to look back on!

Gaming News

The last time I wrote this newspost was one month ago and the leading story was that of SOPA, also known as the Stop Online Piracy Act. I've posted a column which you can read here, summarising the ongoing SOPA-saga, but the upshot is that SOPA is a bill which is making all the headlines as it jeopardises the internet as we know it. Today, January 16th it was announced that SOPA is set to be shelved after American President Barack Obama publicly stated that he would not support it. The trick here is that SOPA has a sister bill, known as PIPA, which is slightly less radical and has flown under the radar thanks to the public awareness of SOPA. So the saga doesn't end here. Check the column.

The community has cast its vote upon the nominees, and the winners are known. Today we have the Esports Awards, containing Game, Event, Moment and Movie of the Year 2011. Read more to discover the results!