The Packard Bell iPOWER games are back for a second year and this time around they've changed their game choices and have picked up CoD4. To quote Multiplay, The iPower Games are a unique and exciting global competition that does away with the people who are simply l33t at one game, and aims to find the best overall teams at First-Person Shooter and Real Time Strategy games."

The first iPOWER 08 qualifier will be at Multiplays i33 you can find out more along with the information that accompanies what is a very unique tournament Here. Last years iPOWER tournament was a huge success with massive media exposure, one can only hope for a similar outcome again this year. The full games list is CoD4, UT3, World in Conflict and Supreme Commander.

Hereby, crossfire announces the last CDC LAN qualifiers.

We got mails from 8 clans. Based on todays stability and rules we picked out 6 clans to fight for a spot at CDC in 6 weeks.

UPDATE

The schedule:

Wednesday 21.00cet:
Game A: Velerion vs gD 4-0
Game B: Hyperion vs Visualize

Thursday 21.00cet:
Game B: Hyperion vs Mazz
Winner B vs NR

Today I got a pm from one of the NR members. They have some internal problems and won't be able to travel for CDC4.
We also dropped Visualize from the qualifiers because they wanted to play with 4 new players while we can only allow minor lineup changes.

The 2 winners should be able to pay their money before Sunday, 27th January. If not, we will replace those teams based on first come first served method.

We wish all the teams good luck and cya in Enschede

The old noll8 RTCW clan started around 2002 and became "famous" by winning InTour and succeed to be one of a top clan on ClanBase etc.
After that they went to ET with a well-known lineup : Smutzig, Blaze, Donkey, Eddie, Capten, Askungen, Fiend.

After almost 2 years of inactivity gaming o8 is doing a comeback!
This time with some oldschool players and some new faces.

Lineup:

capten cl
eddie
Blaze
askungen
tornis
Glass
Malmen (backup/manager)
gob@r (backup)

Contact #noll8 @ Qnet

Team Svea Royale had a great career in Call of Duty 2 playing in competitions such as the EuroCup and even winning the major Wonderbase LAN. In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare they continued their success as part of EYEBALLERs, however after having recently stepped out of EYEBALLERS because of issues with the management the team has now found a home in the well known multigaming organization fnatic!

The new fnatic CoD4 lineup:
Martin "mintR" Röjder
Daniel "tidde" Asp
Mikael "Zsilts" Smedberg
Markus "Odyx" Nilsson
Johnny "klanne" Wahlqvist
Rickard "zEm" Intveld (Inactive)

Afther the launch of etqw 1.4 and etqw tv, etqw geths perhaps another boost, ephix presents their new etqw team, the lineup consists of ex-players from GROF, One2, hMg and cZar. It will be also the first time that an ephix team is no longer completly NL based. Events and competions where the team will be active in will be announced later.

Statement Waste:

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After my old team quit playing ET:QW, I knew that I wasn't done with the game. I took me a while to find the right connections but with Lukos and vipern we where able to get the players we needed to form a strong QW-team. Having every position covered with an experienced player feels good, and the recent pickup of dodde gives our infantry core more confidence. I have a lot of faith in this team and I'm proud to play with them.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce the last #ET-Cup Final ever(?).

It will be a clash between two equally skilled teams, two teams who have never met before - at least not with this lineup composition.Both teams have got Eurocup experience - one some more so then the other. One team was formed more than a year ago and the other just some months ago. One team was recently in the headlines for not going to CDC 4 and the other for reaching 5th in the recent Eurocup!

Every single visitor with an IQ above the average and good scene knowledge, should know about who I am talking about. Yeah, your guess is right; We got the strong polish powerhouse Authentic-Gaming who will fight against the nearly all croatian side Cortana.

Tonight the Lower Bracket Final of the ClanBase ET:QW OpenCup is on schedule. A total prize-fund of 4.000 Euro is at stake in this cup.

Lower Bracket Final
Matchup: Kompaniet vs. Four Kings *** (Result 0-4) - Matchreport ***
Time: 21:00 CET
Coverage Audio: Commentary (QuadV|Splodge)
Coverage Visual: ETQW:TV
Match preview: Full Preview Here

The clan that wins this match still has the chance at the first prize of € 2000 in the grand final against Dignitas coming Thursday, while the clan that loses tonight has secured € 500, whilst the clan that wins will secure a total of € 1250!

By losing to 4K in the last lower bracket round, Pelit had already settled on 4th place and won € 250.

Warsow

Finally! After 8 months of non-stop coding, mapping, modelling, drawing, fighting, balancing and analyzing, the Warsow team has finally reached yet another milestone in its development cycle! I am very proud to announce the next major release of Warsow: version 0.4!

Let's get right at it, what will 0.4 bring? A small summary of some of the major changes (for a detailed overview, check out the changelog):

Changelog
§ WarsowTV
- broadcast matches in-game to a large amount of viewers
- Full multipov streaming
- Added small minimaps for watchers

§ Engine
- New advanced renderer features (bumpmapping, specularmapping, shadowmapping)
- Optimizations! Increased performance over 0.3
- Outlines now handled by engine, ability to switch on or off
- Profiles: ability to quickly use some predefined graphic settings

§ Maps
- Replaced old wdm2 by TdM's/bLx' Chromo Dynamic
- Replaced old wdm11 by Grumx' Rage
- New TDM maps by Daze: wdm8 - Baxandall and wdm19 - Format
- New TDM map by jal/Daze: wdm9 - Supersym
- New duel map: wdm10 - Deflected
- Retextured most maps to take advantage of new renderer features

§ Models
- New Weapon model: Instagun
- New Player model: Bobot

§ Gametypes
- Tweaked iTDM (domination style gametype)
- New CTF rules
- Added Duel Arena (1v1 ClanArena)

§ Bots
- Advanced movement (bunny hopping, dashing and wall jumping)
- Ability to time items
- More natural behaviour

§ Tweaked movement system
- Added forward bunny hopping
- Increased gravity, compensated by higher jump strength

§ Tweaked weapon settings
- Gunblade: Regenerates ammo, instant fire, added splash damage (trickable!)
- Riotgun: Spiral pattern, increased damage slightly
- Rocket launcher: More splash damage, more self damage, decreased projectile speed (1000 up/s)
- Grenade launcher: Strong grenade explodes on contact, tweaked projectile trajectory

§ Tutorials
- Included basic movement demo-tutorials
- With subtitles, voice-over and recams to explain basic movement and bunny hopping

§ Windows, linux and Mac compatible
- However in beta state, Warsow 0.4 is the first release to run on OSX http://www.warsow.net/forum/img/smilies/big_smile.png
- Windows in both .zip and installer

This is a selection out of some of the bigger changes from the changelog. There's much more to explore, so I suggest you go on and download your 0.4 flavour of choice (as usual, only a full release and no update available as there were too many media changes), right after these thanks:

Thanks to everyone who put effort into this release, thanks to all the coders, mappers, testers and team members for dedicating their free-time in making this release possible! Thanks community for all the feedback in forums and devblog throughout the development process. Thanks to everyone who supports Warsow!

Bron: www.warsow.net
Download: www.warsow.net/?page=download

Over at www.warsownews.net lokirulez wrote a big summary of the upcoming Warsow 0.4 features. Expect a lot of map pics, video trailers and infos from the offical blog and forums. It's 6 pages long and has the following sub-pages:

1. WarsowTV and minimaps
2. Maps (wdm2, wdm4, wdm6, wtest8, wdm11, wdm15, wdm17)
3. Gametypes (CTF, iTDM, Duel Arena)
4. Visuals (renderer feautures, profiles, models)
5. Gameplay changes
6. Misc (bot AI and Matchmaker)

Warsow 0.4 will (hopefully) be released on Saturday, 19th of January at 8pm CET in #warsow and http://www.warsow.net.

The CDC payment deadline has passed but not to worry, if you're worried that your payment hasnt been received then you can mail a screenshot receipt to tosspot at gmail dot com, on Tuesday night the list of payments will be made public. The logistical delay of bank transferring means we're willing understanding of problems.

If you've queries or have screwed up, mail tosspot at gmail dot com - you do not need to message admins several hundred times during the day.