When Painkiller was released in 2004 people were let’s just say less than impressed with the old-school charms, and if you have forgotten about it, you would be forgiven. That would explain the arrival of a brand new Painkiller game.

Painkiller: Resurrection, is an all-new sequel that sees you once again trapped between heaven and hell, and again be condemned to fast-twitch first-person combat.

The game is built on a tweaked version of the original engine, and unlike the first title will feature co-op play. The game is due on PC at the end of the year, with the “possibility” of a 360 version to come after.

Source: Kotaku

ESEA League has announced that Season 3 registration is open and will kick off the first week of May. You can sign your team up for the league here. The Prize pot for TF2 is broken down as follows:

Team Fortress 2 – Total cash prize pot of $6,700

Invite Division (8 teams) – $3,850 cash prize pot:

1st Place: $2,000
2nd Place: $1,250
3rd Place: $600

Open Division – $2,920 cash prize pot:

1st Place: $1,000
2nd Place: $600
3rd Place: $420
4th Place: $300
5th Place: $180
6th Place: $180
7th Place: $120
8th Place: $120

We try to really focus on the competitors’ and fans’ experience with the League and each match across each division for every game in Season 3 will feature:

– Complete web match scheduling
– All matches played on our ESEA servers across eight locations
– Protection from our industry leading anti-cheat / config locking Client
– Helpful team of handpicked paid league Admins who are active in each community
– Complete box scores and stats for EVERY match (just as we have for pugs and scrims)
– HLTV and SourceTV demo downloads for every match within 5 minutes of matches finishing
– Automatic live HLTV and SourceTV for every match (unlimited number of spectators)
– Automatic live irc scorebots for every match
– Automatic POV demo recording
– You build your permanent league record

The prize pot for each game is broken down based on the support from each community, Premium memberships, and pug activity. We will continue to grow Team Fortress 2 prize pots in subsequent divisions as the community grows with us.

You don’t want to miss ESEA League Season 3 so be sure to register your team as space is limited for each division!

Source: ESEA

It wasn’t the most hyped launch ever, but Nintendo’s DSi had good opening weekend, with 300,000 units moving in each the US and Europe. Not bad at all, considering that the first DS only sold 500,000 units in its first entire week in the US. With the promising opening weekend the DSi will hopefully rise over the mark of the DS in it’s first week.

Source: engadget

Amazon may still make most of its money by shipping physical items to your door, but it’s becoming clear that the retail giant knows the future of media is of the digital variety. Amazon announced it’s expanding its downloadable video game catalog to include Xbox Live Arcade games today.

The process seems alittle wierd at the moment — you buy a code from Amazon that you have to enter into your Xbox, and it’s not exactly easy to compare prices, since Amazon charges you real money instead of XBox Live Points.

Source: Engadget

The Nielsen report just released their awaited “State of the Video Gamer” report, although there aren’t exactly any surprises in store for readers. The report was conducted in December of 2008 as Nielsen investigated use of the three major consoles — Nintendo Wii, XBox360 and also the PlayStation 3.

The report found that of those three, the owners of the Xbox 360 used their console the most — an average of 11.4 percent of the time for the duration of the poll, while the PS3 came up just short of the 360 at 10.6 percent. The original Xbox followed directly behind that with 10.2 percent, while Wii owners gamed a sad 6.8 percent of the time. Wii gamers were also far lower than PS2 owners.

The Wii also came in last place in total days used during the poll, with an average of 5 days while the PS3 and Xbox 360 users averaged 6.8 and 7.1.

Source: Engadget

The team will be competing ESEA and CEVO next season under the MugNMouse name.

MNM TF2 Roster:

Joe “Nitrous” Vittorio (Team Leader)
Tristan “fibby” Lewis
Nate “cringe” Samra
Lindsey “Movement” Anderson
Patrick “St.Patrick” Burton
Sri “ft” Jamalapur

Source: GotFrag

This event had quite a large turnout. There were 22 different teams who participated; it was broken into 4 groups. The top 2 from each bracket advanced to a double elimination tournament. DTS defeated mTw in a very surprising first match 16-14 throwing them into the loser’s bracket. This did not stop mTw though; they rolled through 3 different opponents: crackclan, ledpc, x6tence.

They worked their way all the way up to the Grand Finals to face the team that defeated them, DTS. Coming from the lower bracket, they needed to win two maps. The first map was de_dust2; mTw took it 16-13. The second map was de_nuke; mTw again won 16-9, and qualified for Moscow, Russia.

Today ENC Germany has announced their squad. The members of this squad are from 2 teams only, mousesports and alternate. The split will be three mousesports members and four alternate members. Roman R. Who was on the team last year, did not make it this year. The roster is as follows:
 Navid “Kapio” Javadi 
 Jan “mooN” Stolle 
 Manuel “approx” Zeitz 
 Roman “roman” Ausserdorfer 
 Manuel “Tixo” Makohl 
 Antonio “cyx” Daniloski
 Benjamin “paN” von Mulert

Good luck to this powerful german force as they enter the ESL:ENC main round.