Tomorrow 3rd  March will begin the biggest Quake Live event until now, The World Championship.

The event will take place in Hannover,  Germany, and the big finale will be on 6th March.

You can see the streams: ESL TV and Quake Live TV

Participants:

Group A	Group B
Cooller stermy av3k rapha Chance Fan Zhibo	DaHang fox strenx cypher dkt griffin

SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, March 3rd
11:30 CET (5:30 AM EST) Group A
12:10 CET Group A
13:30 CET Group A
14:10 CET Group A
14:50 CET Group A

Thursday, March 4th
10:00 CET Group B
10:40 CET Group B
12:25 CET Group B
13:05 CET Group B
14:00 CET Group B

Friday, March 5th
15:00 CET Quarter Final
16:00 CET Quarter Final

Saturday, March 6th
10:00 CET Semi-Final #1
11:10 CET Semi-Final #2
12:10 CET Game For 3rd Place
13:40 CET Grand Final

TOURNAMENT FORMAT:

- Twelve players participate, six in each group
- Group stage will be played in Best-of-3
- Playoffs will be played in Best-of-5 and Single Elimination
- First player of each group directly advance to playoffs
- Second and third play a relegation, winners advance to playoffs
- Mappool: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney7, qztourney9 & ztntourney1

PRIZE MONEY:

1st: $10,000
2nd: $4,000
3rd: $1,600
4th: $800
5-6th: $600
7-12th: $400

So kids, it’s time to take your rocket launcher and start practicing for next year because that prize money is pretty sweet.

You can read more on Q L  forum

EDIT: Congratulations to Shane ‘Rapha’ Hendrixon for being the winner of the Quake Live World Championship !

StarCraft II beta keys have been sent out.

Be careful, a lot of people got scamed. In order to be sure that you will not share that fate, just follow these simple steps:

- If you received an email saying that you have been invited to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, do not open any link in that e-mail

- Typing battle.net in your browser will take you to the secure site appropriate for your region

- Enter account Information

- Go to Manage My Games, choose Add or Upgrade a Game

- Enter the Beta Key you received in the e-mail

- Press Add Game

If you were able to add the game to your library, then you received a real beta invite.

If the email tells you to go someplace else for the beta key or the key provided did not work, then you received a phishing email.

Realy….I’m serious !

On the 10th of this month at a company earnings call, Activision Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced that the beta for the highly-anticipated RTS game will begin this month.

The close beta will take place in North America, Europe, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, South Korea.

Morhaime said the beta would be accessible to thousands of players and will be used to gather feedback for the upcoming game and generate excitement, of course.

The first instalment, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is expected to launch in mid 2010.

BlizzCon, the place where Blizzard makes it’s biggest announcements. We have Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, but I’m not here to talk about them. Blizzard’s flagship is in my focus here… World of Warcraft, the MMORPG that brings Blizzard over $100 million a month.  The long speculated expansion was finally announced and what can I say….WoW!!! . Here’s the list with the most important features.

Game Features:

Two new playable races
-Worgen : Alliance … I like what I see. It looks like a good opportunity for me to change sides.
-Goblins: Horde

Level Cap Increased to 85
New talents, new abilities, better characters.

Classic Zones Remade
Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms like you never saw them before.

New High-Level Zones
Explore newly opened parts of the world, including Uldum, Grim Batol, and the great Sunken City of Vashj’ir beneath the sea.

More Raid Content than Ever Before
More high-level raid content than previous expansions, with optional more challenging versions of all encounters.

New Race and Class Combinations
Never-before-available race and class combinations.

Guild Advancement
Progress as a guild to earn guild levels and guild achievements.

New PvP Zone & Rated Battlegrounds
Take on PvP objectives and daily quests on Tol Barad Island, a new Wintergrasp-like zone, and wage war in all-new rated Battlegrounds.

Archaeology
Master a new secondary profession to unearth valuable artifacts and earn unique rewards.

Flying Mounts in Azeroth
Finally, flying mounts in Azeroth

Read more here and enjoy the trailer bellow.

Blizzard kept it’s word and launched the new and improved version of Battle.net .From now on you will only need one account, to manage all your Blizzard games, including World of Warcraft.

Right now you can’t use many of the functions of this new account, for the simple reason that the games that use it are not out yet. The current versions of Diablo, StarCraft and Warcraft will continue to use the old Battle.net .

But there are benefits of using the new Battle.net account you can take advantage of, right now like registering your Blizzard games, and once registered you can download those games for free. There is also an option to register for beta-tests for new Blizzard games. Who knows ? maybe you’ll get invited to test the new Diablo 3 or StarCraft 2.

Call of Duty 5 World at War Map Pack will be released on March 19 and it will bring with it more zombies for you to play with. Enjoy the trailer!

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
3. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II
4. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
5. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
6. Spore
7. World Of Warcraft
8. The Sims 2 Apartment Life
9. Fallout 3
10. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
11. Call Of Duty: World At War
12. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
13. Left 4 Dead
14. The Sims 2 Deluxe
15. Civilization IV
16. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff
17. StarCraft Battle Chest
18. Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack
19. Diablo Battle Chest
20. The Sims 2 Pets Exp.

It is nice to see Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II and F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin up in the rankings but it’s surprising for me that more of half the positions are occupied by Blizzard and The Sims 2. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of all blizz games and Sims 2 was a good game FOR IT’S TIME but I would have liked more new titles with bigger sales. Maybe the golden age of PC Games is long gone if Diablo and Starcraft are still selling this good.
NPD’s charts don’t include the sale of games over services such as Steam and Direct2Drive. Maybe the situation would be different if they did.

This post could be the equivalent of “Cocaine, now three times as enjoyable and longer lasting” so we apologize to the reformed addicts.

Death Knight Tier 8 Armor

For exhaistive details on the upcoming patch, check out WoW Insider’s comprehensive guide.

“This is probably as close to an “official” soundtrack I’ll ever make for the game World of Goo. I’m making it available here on my personal portfolio for free. I wrote much of this music specifically for the game, but many of the tracks were excerpts from music I had written previously for various small projects, or just for fun.”

Kudos to 2d Boy and Kyle Gabler !