"After a successful Closed Beta Test, IAH Games is launching the Open Beta Test (OBT) today. Counter-Strike Online, a Free-to-Play online FPS game , represents a fresh reboot of the legendary FPS classic Counter-Strike, but with exciting new features that are set to appeal to both die-hard Counter-Strike fans as well as new players of the game.New additions to the franchise include online game elements such as character leveling and leaderboard rankings. These allow players to witness their game characters grow the more they play the game, a feature absent in previous Counter-Strike games. By merging these online game elements while retaining the polished feel of the classic Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Online opens itself to the scores of gamers who have never tried the game.
“The Counter-Strike franchise has a fervent following which has been cultivated over the last ten years. We believe that Counter-Strike Online is the best iteration of Counter-Strike yet and that it will satisfy gamers’ craving for a high quality first person shooter game as well as a decidedly unique online game,” said Kim Dong-Sun, Director of the Counter-Strike Online team at NEXON Corporation, which developed the game.
“This is the biggest leap of advancement Counter-Strike fans in Southeast Asia shall see, and one that we believe they have been eagerly waiting for. With online games having captivated the gaming world in the past decade, adding online game elements to Counter-Strike was a natural progression,” said Luke Cunico, General Manager, Counter-Strike Online, IAH Games.
New highlights of Counter-Strike Online available in OBT include classic fan-favourite maps such as Dust and Aztec, but also three never-seen before maps – Tunnel, Rex Laboratory and Camouflage. Gamers also get to see their characters develop as they play the game, as levelling up will see them gain in-game rewards and higher game ranks.
Other new features include a clan system that allows clans to challenge each other, a ranking system and the ability to purchase items such as new weapons, item boosts and character skins.
Counter-Strike Online is scheduled to launch with all its full features on 27 October 2010. To commemorate the occasion, IAH Games will be holding a Halloween-themed Counter-Strike Online tournament at Virtualand@Bugis Junction on 30 October 2010.
Counter-Strike Online is a tactical First Person Shooter that pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds. Each round is won by either completing the mission objective or eliminating the opposing force.
Counter-Strike was originally developed as a modification for the popular FPS, Half-Life, back in 2000. It then developed into a series and the franchise has sold more than nine million copies worldwide since its first release 10 years ago.
For more information and access to the game client, please visit www.cso.sg"
A friend of mine recently showed me a picture from the Xbox Kinect instruction manual, inside it suggests you leave 6ft of space between yourself and the Kinect for any single player games. This distance extends to 8ft for multiplayer.
I don't know about you guys but I can hardly lay down between my sofa and a TV, no idea how I'm supposed to create 8ft of room. It doesn't say that its unplayable at shorter distances but anyone that has experience with a Wii should know that it can be a very fragile operation.
I never spotted this part myself but I read an article that made me laugh. There is a trouble shooting section in the manual that states changing clothes to contrast to your surroundings may help the performance of the Kinect.
Let me get this straight, not only did Microsoft over charge me for my original Xbox, only to make it cheaper for everyone 2 months later, then they over charge for the Xbox360 and the red ring of doom and finally to top it off, they want me to move house and only wear certain clothes while gaming?
I know Microsoft is the big dog but I think even they're asking a little bit much, I'll leave you guys to think it over while I try and find a room in my house that has 8ft spare...
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack is on sale at 86% off retail price ($4.99) in Steam. The Complete Pack includes all five episodes of the Tales of Monkey Island series. The game has wonderful cartoony graphics, nice soundtrack, amazing humor, and a surprising script. The Monkey Island saga is epic, and this particular series maintains that notion.
There are 2 types of campers on shooting games, you have the campers that do it because they're good at it, then you have the people that camp because they're not good at anything else. Both types usually get painted with the same brush as camping is widely considered to be a "noob" tactic used by the less skilled players. Camping is as old as FPS games themselves, from the moment multiplayer competition was included into shooting games, campers were pitching their tents and lighting the fires.
If we approach camping from a logical point of view, instead of the Nerd Rage approach of the regular player, camping is a legitimate strategy that works in various ways. When I say it works, I mean the skilled campers that know how to camp, sitting in one spot for an entire map returning there every time you die is not camping, it's stupid. You will know if you ever meet a skilled camper as they can lock down large areas of a map and offer very little in terms of a target.
Logical Approach to Camping
* Always knowing exactly where your enemy can come from
* You can control spawns by holding down certain areas
* A good camper will always finish with a positive K/D ratio meaning you cost your team nothing
* Covering retreats of team mates/field of fire cover
* You can easily secure objective/item spawns
Usually, a camper will only get "raged" on if they kill someone a couple of times without being seen, it is due to this immature Nerd Rage reaction to losing that earned Camping its unfair title of a noob tactic. This common knowledge that camping is bad is purely down to immature people that whine when they get killed, there is no support to suggest it deserves its reputation. Why does being a twitch shooter make you a better player than the guy camping? As long as the game is fair (no hacks etc) the methods of how you achieve the top K/D ratio don't matter, as long as you achieve the best and enjoy it.
Newegg.com has the Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB Hard Disk Drive (WD10EALS) on sale at $57.99 with a promo code. This offer lasts till October 20th, 2010.
Features:
- 1TB capacity
- 7200 RPM
- 32 MB cache
- SATA 3.0Gb/s interface
I've done some research on harddrivebenchmark.net and the WD10EALS seems to perform as good as many other more expensive hard drives. At this price, it's very hard to get a HDD with the above features. I recently got a WD10EALS myself, and it's been running very silently and smoothly.
