TimeWarner Cable released more info on their new plan to switch from a flat fee rate to a metered system later this year. Starting this summer, the company will ask users to review their usage and pick a plan from 5 gigabytes to 100 gigabytes. If customers use more gigabytes than their plan allows, they’ll have to pay for overages.

Company spokesman Alex Dudley had this to say:

Customers will be given a three-month grace period to review their gigabyte usage before billing begins this fall under the new plan.

The Meet Your Makers organization have decided to continue on, but will go on their seperate ways as long as they can find someone willing to take them in. Ronnie ‘TwAizZ’ Jelsbak recently did an interview for readmore.eu where he released the details of their decision.

readmore.eu: Since 19 March, when Frontspawn announced it would no longer continue with MYM, what has happened?

Ronnie ‘TwAizZ’ Jelsbak: Well we tried to look at the possibilities on how we could go on, and after some days, we found out that we need to get the team into a new organisation, so the players can get the support they need right away. We do not really have any option but to find a new organisation. 

With the economy going the way it is, futures in the eSports gaming industry are starting to dwindle. Infact the eSports industry has recently been in the New York Times where they have looked at several careers of gamers, their highs and now their lows.

The NY Times article is focused on what players are doing now after their highs in eSports such as taking jobs like us “normal” people. The NY Times also mentioned the fact that several key sponsors to big name teams have pulled their contracts and no longer support the teams.

Video games may be as popular as ever — people in more than 65 percent of American households play, according to the Entertainment Software Association — but the professional sport of gaming has nearly collapsed.

 To read the full article from the New York Times click HERE

Team Dignitas is the first major organization to pick up a competitive Left 4 Dead team. The team features two top players with a background in Unreal Tournament.  Although there are limited competitions for Left 4 Dead the players are currently playing in ESL’s Left4Dead League and has plans to attend i36.

David ‘Zaccubus‘ Treacy has released the following statement:

Well I’d like to say it awesome joining dignitas for L4d but since I have been in the team for 2 years already I will say this: It’s awesome still being in the best team in the world, Dignitas always embrace new teams games and players and with that I welcome iain and craftybadger to the evergrowing army of the undead and welcome back to the old Frantic which I had the honor of playing with in UT3. We look forward to playing at i36 and the ESL Spring Cup, I look forward to hearing the sound of munchin brains OM Nom NOM in future games.

Update:

The next class pack will focus on the Sniper. It’s actually shaping up to be the largest TF2 update yet, with multiple new maps and a bunch of gameplay tweaks. In addition, we’ve got another update in the works that should be done before the Sniper, and that one will include some new content for all classes. The XBox 360 update is still being worked on. If you’re wondering what’s taking so long, since the content is “done” on the PC already, it’s mostly been around fitting it all onto the XBox. The original version of TF2 in the Orange Box was very close to the XBox’s memory limit, and all the additional TF2 content we’ve produced has pushed well beyond it. We’ve found a couple of nifty ways to get back a bunch of that memory, but it’s turned out to be a lot of work, and that’s what most of our time is being spent on. In the meantime, we’re going to get a code update out to address the server cheating that’s going on. – Greg Cherlin

Valve has recently released a new blog entry regarding the next class update for Team Fortress 2. The next class update will be the sniper. You can take a sneak peak look at the sniper update by checking out Valve’s official Team Fortress 2 blog here.

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The 4Kings organization revealed yesterday that they will not be taking their normal roster to the i-36 competition. Carlos “dumbazo” Garçia will not be able to attend due to “personal reasons”. His replacement will be Team CoolerMaster’s George “hudzG” Hoskins.

Team CoolerMaster’s will not be attending the competiion so it was an easy decision for 4Kings to pick up such a high calibre player and someone who has played with two of the current players on the 4Kings roster.

Jack “Callisto” Mason had the following to say about the switch:

Sadly, Carlos informed us a few days ago that he couldn’t make it to i-36 due to real life commitments. Obviously we’re gutted he couldn’t get there, but we will be taking big hudzG as a replacment for i-36. George is a great temporary replacement for Carlos, as I’m sure most would agree. He knows most of our strats anyway as we mix and play with him frequently so its all good in the hood. Roll on the tournament.