Monday, April 18, 2005
| Westwood College UT2K4 and Q3 LAN Party! |
Westwood College of Technology in Anaheim will be holding their second
LAN party, and being a tech school there is lots of computers and space.
* Fully Cisco-switched
* Full BYOC -or-
* Pre-installed 2GHz+ Dells with 1GB, integrated video/GF5200/Quadros,
preloaded with Quake III and * Unreal Tournament 2004. Additional games MAY
be loaded, although this has yet to be worked out. (At no additional cost!)
* HEADPHONES ONLY
* BYOB(awls), although a few students may be peddling a limited supply
for around $1.75
Dedicated servers will be setup for Quake 3 and UT2004.
So if you Desert Combat guys (or any other group) wish to
play another game, then please bring an extra box with your own configs if
you can.
No need for UPS, each room has several circuits and can handle the load.
When: Saturday, May 14th
Where: Westwood College of Technology
1551 S, Douglas Road
Anaheim, CA 92806
RIGHT ACROSS FROM ARROWHEAD POND
Time: 9a - 6p
Cost: Free for students, $10 for visitors
Sponsors: Maybe, last time there was IGDA.
Source (Androktasie)
��-kfcSunday, April 17, 2005
The creative folks over at Enemy Team Fortress have just released version 1.3 of ETF. ETF is a kick ass mod for the free game Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
Why should you check it out? Becuase it makes a great LAN Party team game!
Here is a report on the changes that have been made:
1.2 - 1.3 Change Log
Code / Gameplay / GUI
- Fixed in-game server browser to work with ET 2.60
- Fixed kick and clientkick rcon & vote commands
- vote kicks cope better with odd names
- Fixed invisible players due to lack of spawn points
- Fixed cluster explosion sound under water
- Added server redirect when full, like ET 2.60. Set sv_fullmsg to ETF://server.name:port, client side can enable/disable through cvar "allowRedirect"
- Updated omnibot, see http://www.omni-bot.com/
Maps
- Added etf_spazball
- Added etf_assaultforts : an assault map
- Added etf_nowjump : an obstacle course map
- Made etf_dissect official
- Added more respawn points to several maps
- Updated mapinfos to provide more information
You can find all the current ETF patches at the FILES section on their website.
��-Devil 2 USaturday, April 16, 2005
| QuakeCon Registration Surpasses 50% |
QuakCon registration is well underway. As of 1AM PST, over 3350 people have signed up to attend! My prediction is that sometime Saturday, the list will max out.
If you STILL have not signed up...
?!?!?!?
...then make your way directly to the 10th Annual QuakeCon REGISTRATION page.
��-Devil 2 UThursday, April 14, 2005
| April 15th: Death, Taxes, & LAN? |
Okay people, tomorrow is THAT day. April 15th is almost upon us, so you know what that mean.
TAX TIME!
Ummm, yea that is true. However, it is also time to get your registration on for the mother of North American LAN Parties. That is right ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, QUAKECON!
You better be begging for vacation time, booking that hotel, and saving the date of August 11th to the 14th to get your multi-day frag on. As usual, thanks to the sponsors and volunteers for helping make this a free event! First-come, first-serve online registration will begin promptly at 9 P.M. EST, TOMORROW! If you have never visited the website, I advise that you get REGISTERED right now. That way you will not face any delay signing up for the LAN Party once the online sign up section goes live. Past QuakeCon LANs have had the BYOC section fill to capacity in a matter of days or even hours.
LANParty.com will be bringing you updates as the registration evening progresses.
Never been to QuakeCon? Need more information? Need PICS? Head on over to the QuakCon WEBSITE for a massive number of pictures, videos, faqs, and forum topics.
��-Devil 2 UWednesday, April 13, 2005
Overnight PC just posted a review that takes a look at the main component of any LAN Party, the Ethernet Switch!
Without one, there is not going to be any gaming or file sharing, period. And if you get a bad one, your event may very well be short lived. Here is the introduction of their Ethernet Switch Roundup:
In the course of running a LAN party like Deathnet, you get the chance to stress test a lot of networking equipment. In this roundup, we review 5 unmanaged network switches with varying numbers and speeds of ports, and give you a good idea what you�ll get with each. The products range in price from a wallet friendly $40 for the 16 port Gigafast switch, up to a much heftier $370 for a 24 port all gigabit Dell switch.
Weather you are interested in starting a LAN Party or looking to expand the size of an existing one, check out what they have to say in their REVIEW.
��-Devil 2 UMonday, April 11, 2005
| UVALAN 7 Announced for June 2005 |
Vivendi Universal may not give a rats... 'butt' about the Tribes community,
but the community sure seems to be alive!
UVALAN 7 ANNOUNCED FOR JUNE 2005
The Legendary Tribes Community LAN Party Continues!
CHANTILLY, VA (April 7, 2004) - UVALAN, the largest gathering of Tribes
players on earth, continues the legacy of the Tribes community with its annual
LAN party held in Chantilly, Virginia, USA. The party starts
on Thursday, June 30, and concludes Sunday, July 3, 2005.
Competition remains the focal point of the gathering. Bryan “Yankee”
Baumer returns this year as the competitive coordinator. Several games from
the Tribes genre will be featured in this year’s competition for cash
and/or sponsor prizes. Sanctioned Tribes and Tribes 2 tournaments are tentatively
scheduled for this year, along with several other surprise activities for
players.
"We’re going to be doing a lot of gaming," says Grand
Poobah Tom "Cheater" Szabo. "This party has taken on a life
of its own, and we’re going to make it into a grand time for everyone
in the Tribes community." In 2004, Szabo’s “Tribal Wars”
hosted nearly 600 people on two coasts simultaneously, and was sponsored by
major gaming industry companies such as ATI, Sierra, Creative and Soyo.
Cheater goes on to say, “I’m thinking that it will be a grand
Tribes revival this year. There are so many variations out there it’s
going to be hard to choose between all the permutations. But I’ll be
doing everything I can to provide plenty of excitement.”
"Everyone is invited back this year," said sharp-dressed Mark
"old_skul" Szabo. "We had such a great crowd last year that
we had to do it again. We’ve got good people, good staff, great prizes,
and a low-ping network by the legendary Mowat to shoot at your best friends
on." More information will be released in the coming weeks on the official
UVALAN site, www.uvalan.com.
UVALAN has traditionally been held during the summer months and has regularly
attracted many hundreds of players, gamemakers and vendors. More information
is available at http://www.uvalan.com.
Tribes and Tribes 2 are registered trademarks of Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
http://www.sierra.com for more information.
Go here
to the official UVALAN 7 forums for more
information.
��-kfcThursday, April 7, 2005
| AIP-LAN Party and LANExtreme have merged |
This just in...
AIP-LAN Party and LANExtreme have announced that they have merged to become AIP-Extreme. They even have scheduled their first LAN party under their new name:
We are planning to have some of the biggest and best LANs in Illinois (and most of the midwest)� Our first joint party will be on May 13-14, however AIP-LAN Party will be having an event on April 15-17.�
Be sure to get registered for our event on September 9th.� Registration opens on April 8th at 8 p.m. CST.� 200 seats, tons of prizes, lots of fun!
Surf on over to their new website located at www.aip-lanparty.com.
��-Devil 2 UTuesday, April 5, 2005
| Going Out with a Huge Ka-Bang! |
As many of us have suspected, our predictions where right on. Quake IV will
be at QuakeCon boys! Quake IV is the latest and last Quake title that will be
released (at least under id's watch) and with this being the 10th anniversary
of QuakeCon, this is a QuakeCon not to be missed!
Hollenshead also teased the crowd with information about the upcoming
QuakeCon, the annual id-sponsored frag-fest scheduled for this August 11 to
14 in Dallas. Namely, he revealed that the next installment in the conference's
titular franchise will indeed be on hand, a fact omitted from last month's
official lineup announcement. "We'll have Quake IV multiplayer to play,"
he said "And because it's also the 10-year anniversary of QuakeCon, we'll
have a few other surprises as well."
Source (GameSpot)
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Ground Zero Armageddon is hosting one of the largest LANparties to hit the Omaha
area, Judgement Day. Featuring $1000 in cash prizes between Counter-Strike Source
and Counter-Strike 1.6, don’t miss out on a chance to prove how good your
team is, in CS. We also have tournaments scheduled for Unreal Tournament 2004,
Halo, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War, and Call of Duty: UO, along with swag to go
with it. With 200 seats available, don’t miss out on all of the action.
Event Dates: May 14th and 15th!
Feel free to check out www.gzarmageddon.com
for more information and to get yourself registered to take $5 off the admission
(making it only $15 to attend both days)
Source (Seether)
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Looking for a really low cost way to start a garage LAN party? Check out this deal on 3Com 24 Port SuperStack II Switch 1000. This item features 24, 10mbps ports and one 100mbps uplink port. While not the best for mass file transfers, it is just fine for gaming.
While it is a refurbished item, the low cost of $12.99 makes it a decent deal.
Shipping starts around $11.
Check out Surplus Computer at their WEBSITE for all the deal details.
Thanks to HatTriQk for the tip.
��-Devil 2 UThursday, March 31, 2005
| Quake, Quake 2 & UT'99 LAN in 2005? |
Do any of you guys ever get that itch that makes you scramble through all of your
old PC game CDs? The kind that makes you install some of your old time favorite
shooters, just to come to the realization that no one, at least no one you know
currently plays them?
Well the guys over at LANmaniac have
got your fix! For their April 9th 2005 event they will be holding a “THROW
BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF GAMING!” LAN. Where the only games of
the night will be Quake, Quake 2 and UTGOTY! But if the occasional Kingpin
slips in every now, that seems okay.
On April 9th 2005 LANmaniac will be holding an old school FPS LAN. On
this date our ONLY focus will be on old school shooters. As of right now the
only games on our radar are Quake, Quake 2
and Unreal Tournament (possibly some Kingpin). If you are
a 100% hardcore Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty or Unreal Tournament 2004 guy...
this event is NOT for you. But if you are up for the challenge, you are more
than welcome to attend! We just don't want a bunch of babies showing up that
cant handle the outdated graphics and superior gameplay.
Along with this LAN we will also be throwing a LANmaniac BBQ! The BBQ is a
community BBQ where everyone helps to pitch in. When we get the total bill
of expense we break it down by the number of people attending, so it normally
works out to around $6 per head.
If interested, we would be very pleased to see you show up and show your
support for these great old school games!
Source (LANmaniac)
��-kfc
Scott of Everything USB
just gave the new Logitech MX518 a LAN Party test drive and now he has organized his thoughts into one hell of a detailed review.
Optical illusions are fascinating. What are really just a few dots of ink can effectively fool the mind's depth perception and color recognition, enough to make you look twice and try to feel what's actually there. The MX518 takes advantage of this art with its new faceplate. A dark metallic silver color appears to absorb light in different areas, giving off the appearance of very deep dents in the mouse itself. The Swiss-cheese-like 'holes' are very similar to the NASA photos of moon craters, or perhaps more like someone putting speed holes in a new car with a pickaxe. Whatever it looks like, it will definitely pull attention on store shelves with the see-through box it's packaged in.
Check out the complete REVIEW which covers in game testing, Logitech software, and surface performance.
��-Devil 2 UTuesday, March 29, 2005
| LPANE Nor'Easter 2005 - One Month Away! |
Nor'Easter 2005 is coming! The only question left is, are you ready? Make sure you get onboard and sign yo butt up for what is looking to be a great big LAN Party!
Nor'Easter 2005 is less than a month away and the event is on track to be the grandest LAN event to ever hit the New England area.� We've got over 500 players registered, 130 seats secured.� There are 19 sponsors donating over $5000 worth of prizes including ATI, Intel, Corsair, HotHardware, XG and more.� There will be 4 exhibitors booths showcasing new products, holding mini events and giving away fress swag.� There is an Intel motherboard/cpu combo that will be exclusively raffled off to those who prepay for the event.
Complete information and registration can be found at their website. Information on their front page reports that the sponsors have now donated over $15K in prizes for this event.
WOOT for FREE SWAG!
��-Devil 2 USunday, March 27, 2005
Are the stock 1,000,000 maps found in UT2K4 not enough for you? Are you and
your LAN mates getting bored with so few maps? If so, you may want to check
out the Ultimate Community MapPack.
Packed inside of this download are 13 maps, 2 custom content packages for mappers,
and a new weapon.
We are releasing the mappack to the public NOW. We are releasing 13 maps,
2 custom content packages for mappers, and a new weapon. Head over to the
Download page and grab what you like...
We removed some of the content for our release because we felt it was
not ready. You may see these later, you may not. We have high standards and
we mean to keep them. We're not cheap dates!
We hope you enjoy playing them as much as we enjoyed making them. We
would certainly appreciate any feedback you have - positive or negative. We
only want to get better and bring you better and better content.
Join us online playing the UCMP maps as we celebrate the release on our
own BIOS' server! 216.176.177.186
Go HERE
to get your download on!
��-kfcThursday, March 24, 2005
| TAX MAN HL2 Airsoft LAN Party |
Battlesim.com just announced that they be doing another LAN Party and Airsoft Event in April. Get ready to frag on and offline at the TAX MAN HL2 Airsoft LAN Party!
We are doing it again! This time it will be even bigger. Come get your
frag on tax day! Shoot your fiends, shoot your neighbors, shoot some
guys from Valve! Frag them in HL2, DoD or on the 20,000 sqft indoor
airsoft field.
WHERE: NW Tactical - Kent, WA
WHEN: FRI APRIL 15 - SAT APRIL 16
COST: $60-$80 - Airsoft/LAN | $25 - LAN ONLY | $40-$55 - Airsoft ONLY
Group discounts available.
Check out IMAGES and VIDEOS of the previous event and see if you have what it takes to SIGN UP!
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| CR LAN Party | Conyers, Ga, USA | 4/17/2005 |
| Game Players Anonymous | Silver Creek,Western New York, Western New York, United States | 4/20/2005 7:00:00 PM |
| Aggiecon 36 | College Station, TX, USA | 4/21/2005 |
| Furyous LAN | Garner, NC (Raleigh), NC, USA | 4/22/2005 |
| Wow Festival | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 4/22/2005 |
| RITfest | Rochester, NY, United States | 4/22/2005 |
| LAN Slam | Greencastle, Indiana, USA | 4/22/2005 |
| Local Area Nerds | Chico, CA, USA | 4/22/2005 |
| Whempys | Columbus, Ohio, USA | 4/22/2005 |
| Friday Night Frag Fest | Fraser, CO, USA | 4/22/2005 |
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