GosuGamers.net has released this years winners of the GosuGamer Warcraft Awards 2008. The winners are determinated by a community vote.

In the GosuGamer of the year award, the most prestigious of the awards, Grubby manages to take home the prize with 38% of the votes, followed by Lyn and Moon. The award is given to “a person who has superior gaming technique, good manners and displays great sportsmanship”.

World Elite won the Team of the Year award with almost half of the votes, followed by Meet Your Makers who managed to get a third of the votes. These two teams totally dominated the rest of the teams in the poll. SK-Gaming who came third only managed to get 7% of the votes.

In The Most Improved Player category LucifroN won, closely followed by Happy and TeD. In the most entertaining of the awards, Game of the Year, we saw the most even competition, but in the end the Game between Sky and TH000 managed to squeeze before the match between Moon and FoV, however both matches are worth a seeing.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Source: GosuGamers

The World Cyber Games (WCG) is rapidly approaching us in this new year and already we have word of a few new games in the lineup.  Last year, the WCG was held in Cologne, Germany, as we saw competitors playing in games such as: CS 1.6, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Team Fortress Classic.  This year, the games are being held in Chengdu, China, and the five already announced games include: CS 1.6, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Starcraft, Virtual Fighter 5(360), and Guitar Hero: World Tour(360), according to the Chinese website; tatazu.com.

Dates for the World Cyber Games have yet to be announced. Stay tuned!

Source: GotFrag

With roster shakeups being the fad that everyone’s getting into these days, Dimension4 has tossed its name into the ring of Counter-Strike player additions. After the departure of David “Xp3” Garrido and Thomas “SAP” Lejune, D4 was looking to players to fill the former 5-man roster.

Just recently announced was the addition of Dimitri “dim2k” Larue of French powerhouse Against All Authority and Voykan “MAZZA” Rajovic from Simple & Original. The team will be competing in the upcoming ESL Pro Series.

The following is the current roster for D4:

Christopher “YiiKoN” Cavecchi
Nabil “AXION” Ouache
Judicaël “JED” Chaub
Dimitri “dim2k” Larue
Voykan “MAZZA” Rajovic

Source: GotFrag.com

As the holiday season comes to an end, the major corporations of gaming are counting their losses as the decline of the economy drains the sales lower and lower. EA has just announced its total loss of earnings over the holiday season and it comes to an impressive amount of $641 million bucks. Wow.. first glance at that number really makes you wonder, “What in the hell happened?” and “What are they going to do about that?” Well, what any other major corporation would do when it experiences a loss in profits to that degree.. lay offs! Thats right, EA will increase the number of job cuts to 1,100 which equates to 11% of its workforce. The layoffs will be completed by March 2009 and also coming with that will be closing of many facilities, moreso than originally planned.

According to EA executives, the lay offs will be at all levels of employees from: managers, directors, VP’s and above. Also, they will be freezing raises and cut 30% of the companies SKUS in 2010. The games that were major sellers for EA during the holiday sale that gave the company its impressive $1.74 billion dollars were the following:

FIFA 09
Rock Band 2
Need for Speed Undercover
Rock Band
Left 4 Dead
Dead Space
Madden NFL 09
Littlest Pet Shop
NBA Live 09
Mirror’s Edge.

Just recently released were the updates to the ever-popular Team Fortress 2 game. The updates include damage range reduction, increase the maximum rockets for soldier, custom crosshairs and more.

You can get a full list of the updates here:

New client features:
  * Added Viewmodel FOV slider to advanced multiplayer options
  * Added a hide viewmodel option to advanced multiplayer options
  * Added custom crosshair support
  – Added crosshair image, scale, and color settings to the Options->Multiplayer settings tab
  – Moved HUD minimal mode & Disable Spray options into the Advanced Multiplayer settings
  * Added “open_charinfo_direct” command that opens the loadout directly to the class you’re currently   playing   – Replaced the “Open Loadout” entry in the options->keys dialog with this new command. Rebind / reset   your config to defaults to use it

New server features
  * Added “tf_damage_disablespread” convar to disable the 25% damage spread on all damage
  * Added class limit support to tournament mode
  – Set the “tf_tournament_classlimit_X” convars to the max number of class X allowed
  * Added “tf_tournament_hide_domination_icons” convar, that allows a tournament mode server to force   clients not to display domination icons over their nemeses
  Gameplay changes
  * Modified critical hit calculation. Overall, critical hit chance is now much more recent-performance   based:
  – Base chance is now 2% (was 5%).
  – Bonus range based on damage done changed from 0%-15% to 0%-10
  – Damage range required for bonus changed from 0-1600 to 0-800
  * Reduced random damage spread applied to all player damage from +-25% to +-10%
  * Slight reduction (improvement) of the minigun’s spread
  * Increased flare direct hit damage from 20 to 30
  * Rewrote Natascha’s slowdown code to be more consistent
  * Sniper rifle now supports Crit Boost state like all other weapons (i.e. Kritzkrieg makes all shots   critical hits)
  * Stealthed spies are no longer able to pickup the intelligence. They must uncloak first
  * Increased soldier primary ammo count from 16 to 20
 
Bugfixes
  * Fixed crash when running in tools mode
  * Added UTIL_IsCommandIssuedByServerAdmin() checks to several “physics_” CON_COMMAND scripts to prevent clients issuing the commands
* Fixed bug in teleporter logic that allowed engineers to build teleporters with HUGE health values
  * Fixed matching teleporter not getting a health buff when the pair is upgraded (only the tele you were hitting got the health buff)
  * Fixed Medic UberCharge percentage in minimal-HUD mode

Source: Cadred.org

Mousesports has decided to drop the majority of their Chinese-based Warcraft 3 division to focus more on their already established players. Chenglong “Sai” Zhou, Yanchao “Lyc” Lu, Jiankai “Yumiko” Yu and Liang “Qeki” Ye have been released from the Mouz organization, leaving Weiliang “Fly100%” LU and Xiang “TH000” Huang remaining. As a roster addition, Mouz has picked up EPS player Dennis “HasuObs” Schneider to complete the team with 3 players.

Reasons for the depature include: Visa issues with Sai when it came time for him to attend the WCG Grand Finals and what appears to be a lack of iniative on Lyc’s part to take his game to the next level of gameplay.

Below you will find the current roster setup for MouzWC3.China:

Weiliang “Fly100%” Lu
Xiang “TH000” Huang
Dennis “HasuObs” Schneider
Source: SK-Gaming

This time the Koreans completely dominated ZOTAC with all four semi-finalists bring from Korea. Check, FoV, MichaeL and ReMinD had to battle it out for the 100€ grand prize.

In the Grand Finals FoV battled it out with ReMinD. ReMinD, however, seemed to fear the recent Undead domination over Night Elf. In the first two games he opted to try to play as Orc instead. This pretty much ended in FoV’s domination.

In the first two maps, ReMinD showed that he can play the Orc race on a decent level, but too many mistakes in both games gave FoV two fairly easy wins.

In the third map ReMinD chose to go back to his much preferred Night Elves, however this truly seemed to be FoV’s day. With perfect timing, FoV attacked the Night Elf base with Ghouls and a Death Knight. FoV managed to kill all the Archers and the Demon Hunter. After this ReMinD finally regained some control, but FoV’s constant harrasment kept the game at his advantage. Shortly after, ReMinD decided to leave the game realizing that he had been flat out beaten by the well-played Undead army of FoV

Congratulations to FoV!