It’s not often that people outside of the competitive gaming world open their minds to gaming and what it may bring to life. A 54-year-old woman with a Ph.D. in metaphysics and a MA in religious studies has decided to “learn from her kids”, one of which happens to be a gamer – a Day9 [...]
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Win cool stuff from PlayOn! HD
Free stuff always rules! The folks over at PlayOn!HD are giving away a bunch of awesome gadgets and gaming gear (Roccat mice, headsets, sound systems, HDDs etc). All you have to do is use twitter! How simple! Tweet the following to all your friends: I DO #PLAYON! @ACRyan This will put you in the draw [...]
Gaming ends relationships?
According to a poll by the Daily Mail, gaming does indeed foster negative feelings in relationships, sometimes leading to their demise. For some reason, this poll was only for relationships where the male was the gamer (which is pretty typical, although it would be interesting to see the results from the other way around). Apparently [...]
Alienware Starcraft II Diorama Contest
Voting has started for the Alienware Starcraft II Dioramas and as a special favour, I’d like to ask you all to vote for Soe Gschwind-Penski’s! Not only is Soe the super cute commentator for Gamesports.de, she has made many drawings, models and papercrafts of our favourite video game characters. I guess like the Backpacking Challenge, [...]
Interview with PURRI and Damiah
As part of a Quake Live team deathmatch (TDM) interview series, this time “Nukm” decided to go with a couple of Quake 2 legends; Mikael “PURRI” Tarvainen and Jarkko “Damiah” Liukkonen. The two who are normal rivals in Quake 2 duelling finals have teamed up together to form part of “Xenotorium”. This Finnish Quake Live [...]
Guy ditches wife in labour to play WoW
I found this funny video today, about a girl who went on ‘Tyra’ to seek help for her husbands World of Warcraft “addiction”: I’d like to point out that the APA has rejected to add “video game addiction” to the new DSM in 2012 (unless further research permits it). It looks like this guy is [...]
The Razer 1337 Giveaway
For those of you who wish to win a bunch of cool gaming stuff from Razer, this month they’re having a HUGE giveaway: From the Razer website: In celebration of Razer‘s 133,337 fans on Facebook, we are going to game-change someone‘s (possibly yours) gaming setup. We‘d like to think that it‘s something we‘d give back [...]
Don’t you wish they all could be geek and gamer girls?
Actor / short guy writer Seth Green participated in a funny parody video to the tune of Katy Perry’s “California Girls”. I don’t think I need to say more: WUT UP N00B!
Snoop Dogg Joins the War on Cybercrime
Not one to be a n00b, Snoop Dogg wants to get the point across that cyber crime isn’t… hip? cool? dope? fly? What category does Snoopy snoop fit in anyway? In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec’s Norton want you to show off your lyrical skills on the subject of cybercrime and enter [...]
Play of the year contest
The Aus/NZ Quake Live community 4Seasons Gaming present the “Play of the year” contest, where you are encouraged to send in your epic plays this year. This September dawns a new partnership for ourselves and well known gaming brand Logitech. Through-out all the struggle and the efforts of my own and my teams we are [...]
