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Before Valve released Team Fortress 2, the scout was the first class they were working on at the time trying out a more stylized approach to the game. Dhabih working for Valve as an artist, didn’t want them to release his work to the public. In a recent TF2 blog published by Robin Walker, he explains to us four concept arts for the scout class. Now I must say, after playing TF2 for a long time now, I could never see these concepts being implemented in the game especially the first and third image but the fourth image I’m used too, we all are. Head over to the TF2 Blog site and check out the images. Here at compLexity, we would like to know some of your feed back on Dhabih scout concepts.

Matthew Booty that is! After the resignation of former chairman David F. Zucker in March 2008, the struggling gaming company of Midway was in need of someone to fill the voided position. Matthew Booty has officially taken the position of Chairman of the Board, after being appointed CEO in October of last year. It was never disclosed for the reasoning behind the leave of Peter C Brown, but it was filed departure for personal reasons. Nothing of major news has been announced since Booty’s new position, but only time will tell if this will benefit the current negative state at the company of Midway.

Source: Kotaku.com

CEO Bobby Kotick of Activision recently confirmed the rumor of a upcoming 2009 game — DJ Hero. With inspiration behind DJ sensation Paul Oakenfold, this will definitly be a game that brings you the same entertainment that players of games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero get from hitting the highnotes of rock style musical instruments. Activision recently acquired FreeStyleGames who will be heading the development of this new project. Bobby Kotick had this to say on the subject: “We have this product called DJ Hero coming out later this year, which is a turntable that you actually can play competitively and spin discs and mix songs.” As expected the game will feature a turntable controller, so get the those fingers loose and be ready to spin the tracks!

Source: Kotaku.com

The two famous Norwegian CS profiles noLA and prb has together with OmeN started up a new top Counter-Strike team in Norway. The team picked the very controversial name Team Matrix, but has nothing to do with the Internet café or with the old Swedish Matrix team that consisted of famous players like ScreaM and SpawN. The new Matrix line-up includes stars of the former XpreZ team.

The new matrix line-up consists of:

Martin ‘OmeN’ Moskvil
Kristian ‘mICROVAN’ Nyborg
Preben ‘prb’ Gammelsæther
Mats ‘noLA’ Nygren
Pavo ‘pavo’ Lindstrøm

Fragbite has also made a really short interview with the teams manager KejsareN where he states that he is happy with the new team and believes that they will do well in the next to events they are attending (Infected and The Gathering). He also says that he understands the people that think they are “taking” the name, but he believes that this doesn’t in any way ruin what Matrix once was and nobody will forget the famous players from the old team.

Source: FragBite

Clan Matrix

Originally scheduled to take place in late August was the annual Leipzig Games Convention. However, it was recently announced by Leipziger Messe who is the Convention’s organizer that the convention will not take place this year. The reason for the abrupt cancellation was the German publishers have decided to replace the event with Koelnmesse’s GamesCon. Koelnmesse’s GamesCom will take place during the exact dates the original event was going to take place — August 19th-23rd.

Fear not though, the Games Convention will still have an online event that will take place on from July 31st – August 2nd and will feature browser, mobile and client based games. The CEO of Leipziger Messe, Wolfgang Marzin had this to say: “This is a completely new and fully independent product for a market that is adjusting to new business models, setting off along new sales routes and appealing to new target groups. Browser, client and mobile games are on course to becoming a big success story and in that way, the Games Convention Online is like the GC – Games Convention when it first began. We are delighted that as trade fair organisers, we can again accompany this development too.”

Source: SK-Gaming

Tonight compLexiTV Network (CTN) is proud to bring you another episode of ArenaCast.

ArenaCast is a podcast featuring some of the biggest names today in World of Warcraft E-sports. Every Wednesday at 8 p.m. CST, four World of Warcraft nerds sit down and talk all things WoW.  Tonight’s show features new member’s of SK.WoW.

About the cast:

JP McDaniel — Host, Producer, and Editor of the show, JP McDaniel is a veteran e-sports journalist with work at GotFrag, Amped News, Gameriot, CGS, and more.

Keith ‘Igoaf’ Trahan — Keith is seasoned raider in WoW and a member of the well-known guild Nurfed. His shoutcasting debut at MLG Dallas in 2008 was welcomed by everyone in the community. He brings with him vast knowledge of the game.

Nathan ‘Kintt’ Quinn — Nathan is a proud member of Team Pandemic, who in 2007 won countless tournaments in WoW. Nathan is very well-known in the community and has experience shoutcasting at MLG events. His knowledge of the game is unrivaled.

Sam ‘oplaid’ Lingle — Sam is another veteran e-sports journalist, but also a professional gamer with wins in several games. Currently he is on Team Pandemic Team Fortress 2 team, who is undefeated in tournament play. Sam contributes his vast knowledge of general e-sports to the show.