It's the second day of September and the sexy señoritas are but a distant memory as autumn creeps in, bringing shorter days the banality of school and drab weather - but it's not all bad, this marks the beginning of the Fall season! Tonight we see everyones favourite ex-mix team TAG take on a glitz eSports team packing some Finnish power.

Though despite the famous name, TAG Hope is confident of victory "1 to 5 would be my odds" he boasted. Though this optimism is not without reason, they've been putting in the hours and aim to achieve "we're playing 5 times a week, top 3 should be very well possible - personally I think we've got a good bracket to reach the final".

Will TAGs confidence pay dividends in their opening encounter of the tournament, or will they crash and burn at the first hurdle? Tune in tonight!

TAG
Sensor
Clown
zerender
blessed
JALLAAAAAA
Hope 2 - 4 glitz eSports
saKen
joshua
LavOd
filuS
zMk
chmpp

Time: 22:00 CET
Maps: Supply / Radar / sw_goldrush_te
Bracket: Single Elimination
ETTV: http://www.gamestv.org/event/13401-tag-vs-glitz-esport/

Also a note for those that're interested, tonight's match, along with every other in the Esports Heaven Tournament will be played without PunkBuster! Tune in to judge the benefits for yourself!

Related:

http://www.esportsheaven.net/?page=tournament&action=view&tournament_id=7

The Polish eSports service and radio station, called #YourStation, presents an interview with Wolfpro developer Chris from Great Britain. The interview was orginally posted on the Polish site www.YourStation.pl. Hope you enjoy it.

Chris is the guy that makes maps to ET and ET:QW since 6 years. In this interview that can be found below you get to know such things as his main target with work on Wolfpro. You can also get to know what changes Chris and co. are about to make and also something about maps to Wolfenstein that will be made by them.

Hello Chris. Please introduce yourself, since not all players know who are you and how are you connected with e-sports and certainly the wolfpro project.

I myself have been making maps on and off for around 6 years now in both W:ET and ET:QW and also playing those games competitively for just as long, at Wolfpro I’m mainly around to deal with any map related changes such as the objectives or graphical tweaks.

To enjoy the rest of the interview head over to YourStation:

• YourStation interviews Chris!

Infinity Ward have just released a brand new video showing Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer gameplay in CTF mode. Only last month, Infinity Ward unveiled Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer. This new video reveals further weapons and perks from the game, including the all new "Knife Throwing" perk.

The video also shows a new feature for console gamers that allows the host to quit the game, where the match is then paused and passed onto another player resuming to its exact state.

Modern Warfare 2 will be released worldwide on November 10th, 2009 on the PC, 360 and PS3.

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Direct-feed multiplayer MW2 CTF gameplay footage, uncut.

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Hi there,

what a day. About 12 hours ago, we were close to releasing the competition and pub version of wolfpro. After some good brainstorming however, we were able to come up with another solution. cvars! While we first thought that it is not possible without the SDK (esp. synced cvars) we were lucky enough to find a way!

So here we are! 12 hours later with a full powered 0.1 update!

UPDATE: everybody that did download the mod before 21:10 cet redownload it. you can make sure if you are up to date by joining this server: connect 217.163.23.218:27733;password nonpro

Download: http://wolfpro.myhannes.info

Changelog Beta -> 0.1

• 15/20 for bank,hospital,manor & canals
• 15/25 for facility and tesla
• Fixed all missing nade / panzerfaust / airstrike / flammenwerfer effects / explosions (first person)
• Fixed ATI shadow bug
• Fixed missing effect on tesla ( electrical barrier )
• Fixed MP40 / MP43 falloff damage ( we need your feedback on that )
• Fixed weapprev & weapnext fov bug
• Panzerfaust was reworked. 20 Second shoot delay, no reload, faster, wider splash, more damage
• HUD health / veil bars are colord now (white to red)
• HUD fonts are smaller
• HUD font elements have a shadow
• Scope material has no picmip anymore
• HUD indicator for recording a demo

Team Dignitas has recently picked up a Wolfenstein squad, welcoming back three old members and two new players. Wolfenstein is a complete new game and we can imagine a lot of people wanting to know some more about the competitive side of the game before buying it. That is why we decided to interview our Wolfenstein players to take a deeper look into the current Wolf scene and give you a better view of what the future might bring us.

Interview: Meet the Team Dignitas Wolfenstein squad

Enjoy reading!

Hello & welcome to the 1st edition of this Wolfenstein cup.

It's been a while since there's been any sort of cup in the Wolfenstein scene so together with Sui & FimS, I have decided to create this 1st season.

To compete in this cup, you need a working copy of Wolfenstein for the PC, a team, WolfPro & sportsmanship.

The cup will begin at 20:00 CET on Wednesday 2nd September 2009. We're aiming for 32 teams, if not, then 16. It's single elimination. There will be 1 map per round & the maps will be played in this order:

• Round 1: mp_manor (20:00 CET)
  
• Round 2: mp_bank (20:30 CET)
  
• Round 3: mp_hospital (21:00 CET)
  
• Round 4: mp_tesla* (21:30 CET)
  
• Round 5: Each team will pick a map from the maplist (22:30 CET)

* If mp_tesla is causing crashes on any of your players' PCs, then let a cup admin know & mp_canals will be played instead

There will be prizes!

The seedings have been locked and the SteelSeries ET Challenge Cup has now officially begun. The first round of matches must be completed by the end of Thursday the 3rd of September. Please contact the administrators of this cup, either starzi (Jonathan Anastasi) or myself (eyjohn) as soon as possible.

We will be testing the new Tournament Panel system within this tournament (link also available via the menu on the right for any one that is logged in). This system has been designed to both aid the admins and players in running a successful tournament with the least amount of work. This feature is still in the preliminary stages of development (by me) so if you have any comments or suggestions for this section, feel free to drop me a PM. The next few paragraphs will explain how to use the system to arrange and play your matches.

Hello there, dear Crossfire users.

After months of hard work and arguing, and fighting we finally got the new site done:

www.eSport-files.com has upgraded with a new version, new design, more sections, and have become a more userfriendly site.

Heres a list on whats new & upgraded:

* New design
* News
* Forums
* Download section
* Profiles - UserCP, add buddies, groups and a lot more.
* New sections - eSports Cinema where you can easily watch or post your own fragmovies / movies in a few clicks.
* New Uploader - This makes it easier to upload a file, within a few clicks your done, just add your file, info and images and then click upload and wait for approval!
* We've cleaned up the most to make it all easier to find, such as guides and downloads
* We've added WoW into our gaming section aswel


We've got 745 files devided over 67 categories. These files have been downloaded 200028 times. We hope more files will come during this year 2009.

So upload your files today!

We really hope you will enjoy the new site.

www.eSport-files.com - Filling up your gaming needs.

The curse that is Wolfenstein continues as Activision have today announced cuts between 30 and 56 jobs out of the original 160 headed staff at Raven Software, the developers of the Wolfenstein single player campaign.

Raven Software was founded in 1990 and was later acquired by Activision. The Middleton, Wisconsin based studio has had a close development relation with id Software, having worked on various games with id Software as producer and also by having used various iterations of id's game engines.

Wolfenstein was the most recent game released by Raven, with sources from Kotaku reporting that the game went over-budget and is under-performing is one of the main reasons behind the layoffs. The company is currently working on UE3 powered Singularity , which was recently pushed back to spring 2010 to avoid a clash with Activision's sixth entry into its number one shooter franchise Call of Duty.

Via Kotaku

Today is one huge MW2 leak-fest it seems. Portions of the October PSM3 magazine (PS3 gaming mag from the UK), specifically the article Shock and Awe have hit the CoD forums bringing with it new information about the game.

Rob Bowling (Director of Communications / Community Manager) provides an explanation of the customizable killstreak, from the article: ...You can have a three killstreak or a fifteen killstreak if you want, so something like the AC-130 is one of the highest killstreaks you can select."

Therefore, you can choose your killstreak reward! Noobie players might not want to set killstreak awards so high, as they might not ever get them. Instead, they can set smaller killstreak targets, leaving the better players with the ability to achieve more powerful rewards for uber-fragging.