The final playday of the ESL Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Quake Live tournament was just awesome. Great games, great atmosphere and a really nice live production.
Something which did strike me as a little bit strange however was the presentation of the sportsmanship award to the fan-favourite Anton “Cooller” Singov. The …

Kevin (Nathan) “Strenx” Baeza is a 19 year old student from France and has made quite the name for himself over a short amount of time in the Quake Live European scene. Many Quake fans got their first impressions of Strenx in the now-infamous interview after his match with Russian …

Quake 3 personality Sajruz “Prozac” Malekani has entertained the gaming community for years, making ESWC history by serenading the audience with his rendition of “Hit me baby one more time”.
Aside from being a top Quake TDMer, he also is a huge Street Fighter fan. I thought this video was lost …

Drama has struck the usually calm and mature Quake 2 community. Top Finnish player Thaigo has been banned from the Quake 2 European Duel League. Thaigo was a Finnish national team representative and was the founder of one of the top teams, Wzzrds. He has been on the scene for …

With the Intel Extreme Masters making their third stop around the world in Taiwan last week, it seems like this Asian event was not getting anywhere near as much attention as the European and American finals. That’s because of the simple reason that the Quake scene in Asia is not …

The geniuses at Sony have decided to turn an open job posting for a game tester into an action-packed reality show to be shown on the Playstation Network. They’ve followed in the footsteps of Sir Richard Branson (The Rebel Billionaire) and Donald Trump (The Apprentice) except this time the job …

Ever since the ESL took on Michal “Carmac” Blicharz as head of their Intel Extreme Masters events, we’ve seen a lot happening not only for Quake Live but also we’ve been lucky enough to see a very positive growth in online coverage for the tournaments.
This weekend is the Intel Extreme …

A while ago (in 2007 before Stermy joined CGS) I was writing for a new professional eSports magazine called Pro Gam3r (yeah they really did use a 3 instead of an e). In the few issues of this magazine, I had done a lifestyle piece on Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone. The …

Famed shoutcaster Paul “ReDeYe” Chaloner has written a book…! About shoutcasting! Starting off with an ESWC in 2005, Paul has since then escalated to end up being able to enjoy shoutcasting as his full-time profession. It’s really hard to a job as fun as travelling the world spectating the best …

Some of you may remember when I made a post about Fox and trito coming to visit in Cologne, where I had asked for votes for trito for the gigabyte gaming girl contest. No? Well then you probably remember the boobs journal I made about it on ESR.
While some may …