Over at GamesIndustry.biz Jas Purewal has posted an interesting analysis of recent developments within the European Parliament, with new laws set to go through which could see national crackdowns on piracy of all kinds, with the introduction of "3 strikes and you're out". Jas muses on their possible ramifications for the internet as a whole; be it gaming, p2p or online piracy. As ever, unwanted government intervention into the private lives of its citizens could have much farer reaching consequences than allegedly intended.

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"...in principle, it may in the future be possible to take technical measures against all forms of online copyright infringement relating to a game, including individuals who distribute unauthorised game modifications (eg additional game levels or a total conversion mod) and/or who create user-generated content relating to games (eg unauthorised in-game footage posted on YouTube).

So the person who distributes a brilliant but unauthorised mod of a defunct but well-loved game, or the person who repeatedly posts unauthorised footage of upcoming or released games online, could potentially face technical measures against his/her internet access in the future. Obviously, the devil would be in the (legal) detail but, clearly, if this kind of action was possible it could transform the games industry"

Despite intense pressure from industry and government, nations such as France have the judicial strength required to protect internet users from a far-reaching state, but, as Jas Purewal notes, the United Kingdom, and this Labour government in particular, generally act on the whims of big business, especially those with shared interests - with Business Secretary Lord Mandelson making moves on yet more authoritarian legislation to police the internet earlier this week.

Read more over at GamesIndustry.biz.

This intrepid news writer urges you to contact your local parliamentarian to tell them to back the fuck up.

With 96 participants in the grand opening cup the first event hosted by the worlds biggest league is on it's way with round 4 coming next. Due to the high amount of teams willing to participate in the cup, the ESL is about to start their 5on5 ladder for your daily HoN pleasure. It will be the first european league but will also allow more western or eastern teams to participate.

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The ESL has always been great with support regarding prize money and hardware as soon as there have been teams proven to be active and reliable to the game and the league. Once the trust and faith is here, we can look forward to some more intense competition with a major series or - when it becomes way to incredible - even with an extreme masters challenge.

Furthermore, there are a few others around you can join as well:

• CyberGamer International Ladder
  Ladder is open to both international players and or teams, and we encourage you to join.
  
  
• Xtreme Gaming League
  Offers a challenge system which allows teams to battle for the top position effectively. Requires very little to sign up and is easy to use

NEW: Public server IP - 213.108.29.157:27030 - Thanks to zerb

Following up to the Late Xmas Cup that took place last february and turned out to be a great success we bring you the Early Xmas Cup so get your preparations started! 8 month ago 118 took the win in front of xeimos and KiH.

Unlike the last cup this one will last longer and will involve more matches for every team.
I also hope we can welcome back some old faces to once again celebrate the great game that RTCW is.

In contrary to the rtcw-cup that saw a selection of maps getting played over and over again we want to enforce some of the not-every-day maps so that we hopefully see some new tactics and exciting games.
The mappool for the cup will be formed in a vote involving every team participating.

Signups are open until 6th of November. The Cup will take a couple of weeks - depending on the amount of teams.

Cuppage: http://earlyxmas.tourney.cc
Cupchannel: #rtcw-cup
Admins: oranje, twister
WTV will be provided by Showtime

A light can be seen at the end of the tunnel for this season's ClanBase EuroCup XX, whereas the ESL Major Series V is just finishing the qualifying stages - the teams continue to battle it out to earn a place in the EMS Final Stage. In tonight's match, we will see the European ragers GLITZ-ESPORTS take on the Finnish powerhouse and EuroCup reigning champions mASCULINE_MANS. A few lineup problems for GLITZ-ESPORTS has seriously taken its toll, with a few loses and close calls that should have clearly been in their reach without any problems. Their manager, saKen, recently left the team after conflicts with his fellow players. zMk was quick to snap up his position, but is it a little too late? mASCULINE_MANS still has their golden teamplay with their reliable and constant lineup. The odds are in their favour with 14.60 - 1.07, however with a few recent bumpy seasons for ET we all know too well that anything can really happen on the day!

Final Score
GLITZ-ESPORTS 4
mASCULINE_MANS 0



GLITZ-ESPORTS

zMk
Leonneke
LavOd
joshua
filuS
EURUZ

mASCULINE_MANS

sample
kapaa
chmpp
ENSAM
Fel
Squall


Time: 20:00 GMT
Maps: Not announced
League: ESL Major Series V Qualifiers
Hosting: Electronic Sports League


Shoutcast: tba

ESL has announced the format and prize money for the Intel Extreme Masters QL European Championship. The best 32 duellers of Quake Live will battle it out for a total amount of $13,200.

16 players will be invited based on their previous results and another 16 will be selected by four qualifier cups.

Roughly two years after the trailer the first movie featuring the greatest RTCW highlights and kills of the year 2002 is released. All frags are from official matches in the biggest european and american tournaments. The second part includes solely frags from Quakecon 2002.

In all honesty I haven't worked on this the whole two years due to problems with my computer and a lack of time, however the last two month I have invested a lot of time and finally finished it. Hope that you won't be disapointed.

Also apologies to those whose demos i have lost or have not used - big thank you anyway!

The summer is over and the ESL Enemy Territory Summer Leagues are finished too!
The last grand finals of the different divisions took place during the last days. Now we found all Division winners and the best teams 2on2 and 3on3 teams over Europe as well as the best 1on1 player. Check out the news for all winners!

The 2on2 and 3on3 tournaments started with a group stage followed by a single elimination playoff bracket. The 2on2 tournament had 4 divisions and the 3on3 tournament 6.

Final Rankings

As some of you will have noticed, Crossfire experienced some downtime from late last night until and through the morning, preventing anyone from accessing the site.

A small amount of downtime around 1am CET was expected, while a number of our servers were moved between two data centres in the Netherlands, however during the move some technical issues occured, causing a far longer downtime than we had expected.

Our technical team worked all night and all morning to bring the servers back online and we can confirm that no data has been lost as a result of these technical issues.

We'd like to apologise for this unforseen period of downtime to all Crossfire users, but assure you that the task has now been fully completed and normal service will be resumed.

pstarZ gaming have entered the Quake scene and today announced the addition of several former Betsson Voodoo Gaming players, who will be forming a brand new TDM team.

A part of their new team deathmatch line-up are BVG and FRONT players Kyle "Silencep" Mooren, Mike "Razorx" Jeurissen, Yuri "Frozen" Romanov and Anton "Cooller" Singov, who recently placed 5-8th at the Intel Extreme Masters in Dubai and is one of the most respected names in Quake duel. The feared Russian player will however continue to represent Mousesports in duel games and only play TDM games for pstarZ.

Completing the team's TDM roster is Nikola "vuduu" Scekic, who represented Serbia in the Quake Nations Cup back in Quake III.

Kyle "Silencep" Mooren
Mike "Razorx" Jeurissen
Yuri "Frozen" Romanov
Anton "Cooller" Singov
Nikola "vuduu" Scekic

Statement: Silencep

We are happy to join pstarZ multigaming organisation. Our team got the potential and we hope that we'll grow better and fast with help of pstarz


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www.pstarz-gaming.com

GameReplays.org revealed another knock out tournament for up to 32 teams to participate. Sign Ups will be open until 1st November 18.00 GMT.

For the seedings - They are going to put some trust in the PSR system by S2 Games, it will be a good way to prove how well this system works. Though, there might be some doubts about the game stats from different pub games are relevant for an official clan match, it might be a good start before teams have proven themselves.

For the rules - GameReplays.org have adapted the rules from their previous event a little. Before they are going to introduce a ladder system they will try to prove their position on them though some have been proven in different DotA leagues and a few HoN cups. Some opinions in the official HoN Forum state "those are not up to date" and "not strict enough regarding the 'backdooring' and items" - time will tell which people enjoy most in the end.

Tune In!

Competitive wise HoN receives alot of support. But not only that - There are a few videos around to bring the in game action on your screen - All of them have been casted on previous GameReplays.org Tournaments:

• 143 vs. Transcendence (E-Rev)
  
• 143 vs. fiVe (E-Rev)
  
• 143 vs. Quality Control (E-Rev)
  
• Transcendence vs. The Village Hacker (GameReplays) [Recorded by Kustodian, Casted by ichigotowar]
  
• 143 vs. Quality Control (YouTube) [Casted by StRiDaH]