January 22, 2009

- Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham's new program for complexitygaming.com premieres at 7PM Eastern tonight. The show is called LO3, and you can find a short blurb with a link to the live broadcast on Complexity's site. Have to say I'm pretty excited about this. Even if we don't always agree on issues, I'm always entertained when I'm listening to djWHEAT, and what more can a viewer really ask for?

- And if you can't get enough of djWHEAT, he's also announced a firm date for the return of Epileptic Gaming, the general gaming balance to LO3's competitive gaming focus. "The first REVIVAL Episode of Epileptic Gaming will be airing on January 30th @ 7PM EST. It will feature djWHEAT, NiceGuyEd, and Force. More information on what exactly we'll be discussing on the show will come next week." Within the story there are also some funny/cute pictures of his young son.

- Evil Geniuses finalized its Canadian roster to complement their acquisition of four former Complexity members to its American team, and GotFrag sat down with EG's owner, Alex Garfield. There's a CSPromod update in the interview, as well, and Garfield had this to say about Garett "GRT" Bambrough's absence from the Canadian roster: "We considered a number of different lineup combinations before deciding on this group of players. Garett was definitely on our list as far as potential players go, and we certainly spent a lot of time talking to him about the possibility of tagging up for EG in 2009.

At the end of the day, he decided to take some time away from the game, and that's pretty much the long and the short of it. We feel really great about the group of players we ended up with, and expect great things out of them this year."

- I have to admit I'm jealous of StarCraft players. 1.6 is long devoid of updates, but StarCraft just got another one recently. "The patch doesn't really fix anything, but offers some performance tweaks for people using low-end CPUs. Feature Changes In-game Speed Options menu now has a "Enable CPU Throttling" checkbox. Enabling this option will allow StarCraft to consume fewer CPU cycles." I believe this begs the question: what exactly is a "low-end CPU" in the context of a game that's OVER a decade old?

- As for the new version of StarCraft, a beta date has been set, though not released to the public. I, for one, have already stuck my SC2 Beta key in a safe deposit box, guarded by armed mercenaries and attack dogs. Oh yes. LD will most definitely be playing the SC2 Beta.

- For those of you not lucky enough to have a key, it's not too late.

- MoB picked up former LA Complexity player Felipe "KreeganBG" Stoyne, and I'm curious if that story makes GotFrag before the CGS. It seems like FIFA has gained some more attention recently, or maybe I'm just noticing it more, after the CGS used it as one of the games. I mean, it's not like there are a lot of FIFA fans checking GotFrag for updates, right?

- Winout.net recently interviewed Dennis "walle" Wallenberg, arguably one of the best players in CS history. (And it's quite a massive interview, so hunker before you start reading.) Among other questions, they asked him about swapping out Marcus "zet" Sundstrom for the legendary SpawN: "If zet hadn't been available, we would have continued playing with SpawN. He's a great player and a good friend outside of the game, so all of us enjoyed playing with him. His game hasn't gotten worse in anyway. Bringing zet in was more a way of getting the whole team back in shape, get everyone motivated again. I think the change was neccessary, but it could have been any one of us."

- In Source news, SXP recently won the PNY XLR8 tournament, beating Dynamic 16-8 in the Finals.  SXP had an interested roster of ridic, p0s, nickn0it, sauce, and Shaffer. It's going to be even more interesting to see how the Source rosters shake out after people are done moving back to 1.6 and reorganizing.

- There's some TF2 action happening tonight as Pandemic and iDemise fight for first place in GotFrag's invitational tournament. The match is scheduled for 10 PM Eastern time, and it'll be casted by Pwnage.TV. For more info check out this little preview and some predictions.


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