Posted by Brian Leahy - Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:02 PM
 The 2008 Championship Gaming Series North America Season is under way and tonight you can check out two matches live via webcast. The stream starts tonight at 9pm ET/6pm PT.
You can watch the webcast by clicking here (it will pop open a new browser window).
Tonight's matches are:
- Chicago Chimera vs. San Francisco Optx @ 9:00 PM
- Carolina Core vs. LA Complexity @ 11:00 PM
The full season will run until the North America Final on July 7th followed by the World Finals starting on July 14th.
Teams of 10 will be competing in Counter-Strike: Source (PC), Dead or Alive 4 (X360), Forza Motorsport 2 (X360), and FIFA 08 (PC).
You'll be able to watch the qualifiers on live on the internets at the link above or at thecgs.com every weeknight for the next two weeks. Hit the jump for the schedule of events.
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Posted by Stephen Johnson - Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:00 PM
Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology.
- Will the iPhone kill the Nintendo DS?
- According to Euro Gamer, development on the PlayStation 3 version of real-time strategy title Red Alert 3 has been halted.
- We promised you X-Play's review of 360 action-slasher Ninja Gaiden 2, and dammit, we deliver!
- Casual-Gaming.biz got an interview with Ubisoft's Pauline Jacquey, executive producer for their Games for Everyone label, and she revealed that Ubisoft would be making games for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
- We review the Uberclok Gaming Computer.
- More Crytek news!
- U.S. District Court Judge Joan Lenard dismissed Jack Thompson's federal lawsuit against the Florida Supreme Court "with prejudice."
- Two of the hardest rocking bands in history are hitting Guitar Hero III.
- Battlefield: Bad Company has gone gold.
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Tags: Daily Wrap-Up, Videos
Posted by Patrick Roche-Sowa - Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:40 PM
Blow the dust off your Simish to English dictionary, The Sims might be going online for a second time. In a recent interview with The Times UK Nancy Smith, the head of EA's Sims division, admitted they would considering bringing the popular game series into the virtual world metaverse.
What's interesting is that neither Nancy Smith nor the person interviewing her mentions the fact that The Sims Online already existed. And was shut down. Multiple times. Then again, who could blame them when online persistent worlds like Second Life continue to grow and expand? The Sims always seemed like the perfect match for a community-based virtual world, so with a new design and better user generated content, it could certainly be a tough competator for Linden Labs' den of iniquity. Plus, being able to furnish your virtual house with furniture from Ikea and dress your character in clothes from H&M, EA could easily support the service with microtransactions. The product integration possibilities are endless!
Times Online: The Sims Prepare For A Sociable Future
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Tags: PC Gaming, Videogames
Posted by Stephen Johnson - Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:27 PM
You gotta appreciate the massive, swinging huevos it takes for THQ to make a video directly comparing Saints Row 2 to Grand Theft Auto IV.
The crime-ridden open world game comes out this fall for the PS3, 360 and PC...hey, just in time for me to be finished with GTA IV!
Check out the "Activities" video:
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Tags: PlayStation 3, Videogames, Xbox 360
Posted by Patrick Roche-Sowa - Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:25 PM
Reserach firm Strategy Analytics has reported that if current trends continue, a billion people will have registered for virtual worlds in the next 10 years. That includes MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Maple Story, as well as virtual community portals like Second Life.
Those billion users works out to 22 percent of all internet users taking advantage of broadband connections, which doesn't sound all that far-fetched when you consider that 14 percent of them are already registered in virual worlds. Add that to the 10 million already playing World of Warcraft, and that high water mark seems within reach. One word of advice; watch what you say and do while you're signed in to these metaverses. You never know who's within voicechat earshot.
Eurogamer: A Billion Virtual World Users In 10 Years
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Tags: PC Gaming, Videogames
Posted by Patrick Roche-Sowa - Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:12 PM
Shed a tear for the Alltel Wizard and his weirdo Wizard family, they have just been sold into slavery.
Verizon Wireless has agreed to buy one of their competitors, Alltel Wireless, for 29 billion dollars. The deal consists of $5.9 billion in cash and $22.2 billion in debt. Apparently, Wizards like to use their credit cards a lot. The purchase will allow Verizon to offer service in 57 rural markets they previously had no access to, so your uncle Cleetus can give you a ring while he's tillin' the fields.
A memorial service for the Alltel Wizard will be held in the kingdom of Rohan sometime towards the end of the Third Age.
TheAge.com.au: Verizon in $29b Bid For Alltel
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Tags: Tech
Posted by Ty Colfax - Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:41 PM
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