Wandering Crosshair

Worthplaying has news on what to expect from the upcoming chapter of Rainbow Six 4 as well as some screenshots and "new pc specific features" such as weapons, equipment and gameplay here.

One month after having released Call of Duty 2 the online gaming community is disappointed to say the least on the lack of action on the part of Infinity Ward and have posted in their forums the following:

• "We request here and now that either Activision or Infinty Ward make an official announcement regarding their future support for the Call of Duty series of games on or before 16th December 2005.
  
  The statement should include the following:
  
  1. When will you include an Anti-Cheat system for COD2?
  2. When you you release your 1st patch for COD2?
  3. What will it include?
  4. What other plans have you for the support of the Call of Duty Games?
  5. What will you do to ensure this situation does not arise again?
  
  Failure to comply with this very simple request will result in the following action:
  
  We will actively encourage ALL
  Clans, Leagues, Ladders, Players, Admins and server providers to enforce a series of 24hr mass server shutdowns of all Call of duty games at a time of our choosing.
  
  Don't take this lightly, word spreads, people won't buy a broken toy.
  This has never been done before and do you really want to go down as the first and only companies to have it's client/fan base take such drastic measures in order to simply be given some regular information about a product, the choice is yours alone.
  
  WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED ANY LONGER.
  
  TALK TO US AND HELP US, TO HELP YOU MAKE THE CALL OF DUTY SERIES BETTER ONLINE GAMES.
  
  DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
  

Given that the Day of Defeat Source mod for Half-Life 2 only came out with 4 maps a slew of goodies are on the way. Check out this DoD Source: Pacific Theatre mod in the works here.






While Gamecloud follows up with some questions to the developers on the announcement by Tripwire Interactive to create a Steam/HL2 "version" of their WWII themed Red Orchestra Mod of UT2004.

The Painkiller showdown at the CPL World Tour Finals in New York ended in a victory of Fatal1ty over VoO in four straight maps of 15 minute deathmatches. VoO came in to the tournament having won the last 5 of 9 events.

MTV broadcasts the finals over the web on their "Overdrive video channel" here and recaps the final in print here.

Congratulations are sent out to both finalists as Fatal1ty rakes in $150,000 as the champ while VoO gets $100,000:

"Despite losing the finals, Kaasjager was awarded an MVP trophy from Intel, an accolade for having racked up the most victories during the tour (he scored 3306 frags; Fata1ty nailed 3191). For that he won $20,000 and took $100,000 for his CPL second place for a total season earnings of $232,000. Still he wanted to win and was kicking himself for failing to take out Fata1ty during a late-match round that his opponent had forced into overtime."

If you're wondering about what it takes to compete at this level there is an interesting article lead in to the tourney and profile of Fatal1ty by Matt Sedensky of the Associated Press as he unfortunately compares professional gaming to "be in a class with professional poker or competitive eating." Read it here.

Furthermore the CPL site is reporting that on Sunday November 26, 60 Minutes will be airing a story on electronic sports and the Cyberathlete Professional League.