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 reasoning behind the award [...]

Following the interview I released with Kevin “Strenx” Baeza, the responses have been explosive. Not expecting to cause such turmoil, Strenx would like to say the following: First of all, I would like to apologize. The interview was made at 2 – 3 am. I had just got home from a party and I didn’t [...]

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 forever when Youtube deleted [...]

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 over 10 years. From Q2Scene: [...]

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 known for their skilled players [...]

When most professional gamers think of Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham they will picture this vibrant, excited, talkative guy, commenting each match like it was the World Cup finals. Or they might think of the host yelling passionately about video games into a camera on the set of the show ‘Epileptic Gaming’. Graham lives in Los Angeles [...]

It’s been a really long time since i’ve given an interview about anything (i’m not really relevant in gaming anymore) and I had the pleasure of speaking with Daisy from the japanese gaming website Cyac. The interview in English is not available, but it basically covers the female gaming, the gaming house and my time [...]

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 Masters Edmonton event which [...]

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 article covers Stermy more as [...]

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 not agree with the [...]