Daily News Spin — February 13, 2001 (Tuesday)Singapore slings Gamathon IISingapore is getting into the professional gaming scene with a Counter-Strike tournament involving 128 teams of six players each, according to a Reuters story. The event will be broadcast live online.
The article notes that there are 250 LAN centers in Singapore now, having grown from just four centers three years ago. Lin expects that there will be 500 such centers in two years time. We tried professional gaming several years ago but gave it up when we got a lucky win in a Warcraft 2 tournament. The winning part was great, but we didn't appreciate having our PC doused with a Gatorade. Heart of WintergoldThe Icewind Dale add-on, Heart of Winter, went gold yesterday. Look for the $30 box to arrive in retail stores in about a week. We haven't even gotten around to finishing Icewind Dale - in fact, we're snowed under by RPG backlog, still waiting on Baldur's Gate II to finish it's 1200 gigabyte install. But we've been looking for any excuse to put up this classy artwork of the "Heart of Winter girl".
We'll take this kind of cheesecake any day over the stuff certain companies put in their calendars. And we don't care if she is an elf. What has it got in its pockets?Sierra has announced a "Get in the Game" contest in which the first person to solve an ongoing riddle will be featured as one of the characters in Troika's upcoming Arcanum, a fantasy steampunk RPG from the fellows behind Fallout. The first weekly installment of the three-part riddle will be posted here after 4:30pm Pacific Time. We'd like to go on record as guessing that the answer will be "nothing". Although we're looking forward to the game, when we win the contest, we'd like to decline the prize. As we learned in The Sims, meeting ourselves in a computer game is just too disconcerting. Boxing the MachineBoxed copies of The Corporate Machine are being sent out. We know because we got ours yesterday. Stardock's business-as-wargame has been available for download for about a month to accomodate those of us so impatient that we want to play now, dammit. Which is what we did. Read our 60 Second Review here. 3amIt's raining in Los Angeles. It's that once a year night of cold windy rain we call winter. Under these mildly raging skies, the nominations for the 2000 Academy Awards will be announced in a few hours. The Academy is a fairly predictable beast and we've long since given up expecting it to make any bold choices, but with stuff like Requiem for a Dream, You Can Count on Me, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the running, we're a little more hopeful than usual. |
