Gamecaster, Inc. has released the second episode of Gamecaster, the popular streaming video show focused on eSports. Gamecaster Episode 2, hosted by eSportscaster Brad Stine, highlights the Babbages CPL $100,000 Quake 3 Tournament, and features interviews with star players, play-by-play highlights of the final match, slow motion, instant replay, and more! To view the RealPlayer streaming video, visit Gamecaster and click the "video" button.
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Microsoft today announced the release of the Dungeon Siege Fan Site Kit (FSK), a set of downloadable assets that will help fans to construct sites dedicated to the highly anticipated RPG title from Gas Powered Games. The FSK contains ten in-game screen shots, four screens of game concept art, 12 rendered character images, biographies of the development team, and logos. The kit may be downloaded from the official Dungeon Siege site.
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Ubi Soft has acquired from the Guillemot Corporation its Canadian interactive software distribution division. Under the direction of Olivier Ernst, the new structure will employ ten people and will have as its principal objectives sales, distribution and promotion of Ubi Soft products nationwide. Among these products figure key titles such as F1 Racing Championship, Stupid Invaders, Disney's Donald Duck-Goin' Quackers and, of course, the celebrated Rayman series. Games from Red Storm, Blue Byte, and GAME Studios, the Entertainment division of The Learning Company, will reinforce the catalogue of products available to Canadian consumers with titles like Myst III Exile, The Settlers Series, and the Rainbow Six lineup.
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Strategy First Inc. has released a demo for the recently released real-time strategy game, Waterloo Napoleon's Last Battle. To capture the pomp and pageantry of the Battle of Waterloo, the development team faithfully portrays all the uniforms and weaponry of the time. The battlefield is also realistically re-created to display all of the significant terrain and landmarks such as Hougoumont Complex, La Haye Sainte and Plancenoit Church.
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Alienware Corporation and the Cyberathlete Professional League jointly announced the specifications of the tournament computers for the SPEAKEASY.net $30,000 Counter-Strike tournament, to commence Thursday, April 12 and end Sunday, April 15, 2001 in Dallas, Texas. Alienware Area51 Cyberathlete Professional League Limited Edition Tournament System includes:
- SPACE BLACK ATX Mid-Tower Case (300-Watt PS))
- Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 1.5GHz 400MHz FSB w/Heatsink & Cooling Fann
- Intel® 850 Based Motherboard w/1AGP/5PCI RDRAM
- 1.44MB Floppy Drive Black
- 128MB RDRAM (PC-800)
- Visiontek GeForce2 GTS w/64MB DDR 4X AGPP
- KoolMaxx Video Cooling System
- IBM Deskstar 20GB HD 9.0ms seek time, 7200RPM, UltraATAA
- SoundBlaster LIVE! Valuee
- SPACE Black 107-Enhanced Keyboardd
- Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer USBB
- 56X CD-ROMM
- PCI Ethernet 10-100 NIC
- Microsoft Windows 98 SE
In a related press release Alienware Corporation also announced that for a limited time they are offering the Alienware Area51 CPL Limited Edition Tournament System for sale at the discounted price of $1899.00.
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