Valve’s latest shooter, Left 4 Dead, is slowly becoming a mainstream competitive game across many leagues, and MoB is proud to announce it’s 2009 line-up for the game.  You might recall some of Valve’s earlier successes such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, and this game is the latest addition.

MoB’s new roster:

Max “MoB Reiger” Reiger
Alisha “MoB GunnerGirl” Brooks
Alex “MoB Alex” Kelmenson
Hunter “MoB stza” Toth
Vincent “MoB Snake” Maltase
Daniel “MoB kuko” Still
Kris “MoB methodz” Maureira

Left 4 Dead is just breaking into the competitive realm.  With a 16 team tournament on CommunityL4D.com called the Infected Cup, and with CEVO and CAL looking into it, it is sure to be the next big online game.  MoB Gaming is looking to break into the early stages of the game in the top ranks right from the start. 

Currently, MoB’s L4D team is 6-0 in TWL, and is registered for the Infected Cup.  The winners of the Infected Cup will be able to claim bragging rights until CEVO or CAL kicks in, so this is a big tournament to see who can start on the top, as sponsors are lining up to see teams play each other.

After the majority of the team met up in the Call of Duty series, they decided to team up yet again in Left 4 Dead.  MoB is excited to see where this team can go as they begin to work their way up the ranks in every L4D tournament, starting with the Infected Cup.  Be sure to look out for this new team throughout the next few months!

Source: MoB

We’ve all heard the horrible stories of young video gamers going off the deep end and hurting people with guns, knives and other forms of violence.  However, this story is a bit different.  This is the story of the TACO ASSAILANT.

Intrepid and indispensible local news resource WOFL-TV of Orlando reports that alleged Xbox Taco Assailant Zachary Moir is in the Volusia County Jail after a domestic disturbance on Wednesday night. Seems his moms went upstairs and demanded he stop playing that Sega or Atari or whatever you call it and come down and be a contributing member of the family, and he was all, “whatever, bitch,” and she was all “WHAT did you just call me,” and punched off the power to his console. Oh it’s on now!

    “A few minutes later Dena says she was in the kitchen cleaning and cooking tacos for dinner when Zachary showed up. That’s when she says he slapped her arm and threw a taco in her face. “He went ahead and hit me with the taco and I got taco all over my shirt and kitchen. I’ve threatened to call police before. But anyway this time, I thought he went too far so I called police and he’s in jail now.”

On top of that, Mom won’t take jailhouse phone calls from her alleged Xbox taco assailant son. That’ll show your ass, tough guy! “She says she’s going to let him sit in his jail cell in Volusia County for a few days to teach him a lesson,” according to crusading truth avenger WOFL-TV.

Source: Kotaku

As China’s growing problem with game addicts becomes more apparent, the Chinese government is finding new ways to decrease the problem of gamers becoming addicted to games.  The new system that has been recently implemented now forces gamers in China to register with their government issued identification numbers as a more prominent way of identifying who the gamer is and how old they are.

With any new system comes the flaws within, and in this case the new identification process is not exempted. Gamers can still play one game for three hours and then switch to another game. This will definitely make an overall impact of gamers being addicted to one specific game, but the enjoyment and “fix” they get will still be very noticeable.

Some of the concerned Chinese had this to say on the subject: “The reason why they are doing this is because so many minors are addicted to games.” “Kids were playing games all the time after class, or even skip classes. They addicted to the game.” Currently China has the highest population of users on the internet with a estimated 17 million game addicts to follow.

NGL has now released the players and teams for the 1on1 and 3on3 competition
In the 1on1 competition we will see eight invited players, of which six has been released to the public. There will also be four more players that will be determinated trough a Community vote. There will also be three qualification tournaments to deternminate the rest of the players.

Invited players
Jang “Moon” JaeHo
Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen
June “Lyn” Park
Seo Woo “ReiGn” Kang
Hyeong Ju “Check” Lee
Xiaofeng “Sky” Li

The 3on3 competition will feature some well known teams as well as some less known. In the list of invited teams we find such teams Meet Your Makers, SK Gaming and mTw.

Invited teams
mTw
SK Gaming
Meet Your Makers
mousesports
Raptor Gaming
aX eSport
GosuArena
serious gaming
ALTERNATE aTTaX

Qualification Group A
diamondZ
EYE Sports
iGamecentral

Qualification Group B
All For One
eXpertise
nGize

You can cast your vote here
Source: http://www.ngl-one.com/en/news/86/

The x3o Winter tournament has recentely released their seed list. Originally a 16 team event, it has been changed to allow 24 teams. The event will take place January 24th-25th at the X3O Center in Rockville, Maryland. The seeds are as follows:

High Seeds

X3O
Gravitas Gaming
Frag Dominant
eMazing Gaming
ATP
Dynasty Gaming

Medium Seeds

Initial
Look
enhanced
cpd
hypnosis
Gordon Bombay
TFM
backdraft
BOPC
Southern Aggression
drift
iDemise

Low Seeds

SEP
deadendtheory
Pancakes Are Yummy
PMS.Divas
AGENT
Varsity