Some weeks ago I attended DreamHack Skellefteå to make a video about the LAN and the ESWC pre qualifier for CounterStrike. The video was shown yesterday in GamePlay on channel TV7. You can watch the video if you head over to their website (it’s all in Swedish though):
DreamHack Skellefteå video part 1
DreamHack Skellefteå video part 2
No commentsI’ve found a really addictive shockwave game called Fuse Moshbox. Colored cubes are coming in from the sides, stopping in the middle when they hit something. Your job is to connect cubes of the same color with each other to make them disappear. When the screen is filled up with blocks it is game over. You have to connect at least three blocks at once, but the more you get in the same connection the higher score. There are also power blocks, they can be both good and bad. Give it a try. My high score right now is 423 060.
Update: My new highscore is 1 312 960
I’ve found this awesome video today at lavalevel.net and I just have to share it with you, it is so fun and cute. It’s someones girlfriend playing TF2 for the first time and she makes the funniest comments ever. Enjoy!
3 commentsHi everyone. I haven’t had the time to write anything for a while. Actually I didn’t have much to say but I think it’s time to update my situation. I’m aNouC and I’ve been playing Counter-Strike much more than Quake during the last years, even I started with that game and is the one I like the most.
Last summer 2007 I went to the ESWC, as I used to do every year. I represented Spain together with four girls, because Counter- Strike is a game played on a 5 vs 5 modus. We’ve been kinda unlucky with our lineup because since we made the Top3 in 2005, we went through some lineup changes that made very difficult for us to fix our teamplay and to have a team stability which in this game is quite important aswell as having the right motivation. That’s why in 2006 and 2007 we only took the 5th place due to our own mistakes.
After the last tournament, we all took a break till the new season started. I decided to step back for a while. Told my mates I needed to focus on some other things and so I did. We finished the ESL Major Series playing very badly, due to the lack of activity and motivation, even we were doing great at the beginning. Then everyone got lost. We left the organisation that was supporting us and we all took different ways. I needed at least two or three weeks far from the game and from most of the people till I finally recovered some energy. On that point I decided to play with males instead of starting over with a female team. Actually one of my former mates and best friend, joined another team so I thought we would never be together again and somehow I thought I would be retired from the Counter-Strike female scene. I didn’t feel right with all that, because I still wanted to go to the ESWC but I couldn’t see an option to get there. It was almost impossible to fix a competitive team on that situation so I forgot about it for some time. Last february, my friend iRene was kicked from her team and she was clanless again. She came to me to talk about it and the idea of being together again and prepare something was on the air. But we knew it was very difficult. We weren’t talking to some of the other girls since last summer, some others have been inactive for a couple of years and another one was going to be very busy on her new job so it seemed almost impossible to do anything. Suddenly somebody announced a LAN Tournament in Madrid, with a female combo on it. That was pretty interesting and we both tried to put together some old friends to give it a try. If we had the chance to meet up, would be much easier to talk about our future too, in case there was any.
The event was small but the feeling I had there was amazing. I had fun, I met some old friends and we’ve done well together, even without preparation. We managed to beat all spanish and portuguese teams and end up being the winners and leaving the place with 1.000 Euros and a big smile. We had time to talk and we decided we wanted more of this, we wanted to be together again. That’s how once at home we decided to announce our comeback. Celebrating the 10th year of a community I started once as a Quake team, we became the new spanish badGirls for now. We are playing the ESL Major Series II, where we already won our games against Defeaters, ALTERNATE aTTaX and Endless Inspiration. We still should have to win extenSia and Les Seules if we want to go to the brackets, but we will see what happens. For now we are just trying to get some teamplay back, doing some tactics and practicing a little bit every day from 22.00 CET.
Now we can just hope to have a ESWC Qualifier in Spain, that gives us a slot to go to the big finals in California. At the same time we applied for the ESWC Masters in Paris, just in case we don’t have the qualification, we will have to win the Masters and use the money to go to America. And that’s it… that’s how everything happend during the last half a year, what I’ve done and how I felt. I’m motivated again about the ESWC, which is the top event for a CS team. I would also like to reinstall Quake 3 to play it again on my free time, but since my computer is not working very well, I prefer to wait first. I love to teamplay and I would like to see some Q3 or even Q4 TDM tournaments, so I could play together with my lovely girlz 0f destruction! Damn it, I miss the rail…
7 commentsThe AFI Dallas FIlm Festival will premiere the documentary “Frag” April 1st and 3rd in Dallas Texas. http://filmguide.afidallas.com
AFI Dallas announced today that Yvonna Lynn has been appointed moderator for the Question & Answer session after the film on April 3rd at 5:15 showing at Northpark 7. Jonathan “Fatl1ty” Wendell, John Romero, Rafik ” LoSt-CaUzE” Bryant, and Frag Doll Morgan “Rhoulette” Romine are scheduled to be present.
Frag
Documentary Showcase
(USA, 2007, 79 mins)
World Premiere
Directed By: Mike Pasley
Featuring: John Romero, Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel, Rafik ‘Lost-Cauze’ Bryant, Gene Simmons, SK, Fnatic, and interviews members of the girlz 0f Destruction Trito & Liefje along with feature spots of Alana and other of the g0d girlz
Producers: Judd Saul, Todd Fossey
Kids no longer dream of being a pro athlete, they dream of being a pro cyber-athlete. In the 1980’s kids were competing in arcades for high scores. Today they compete for millions of dollars around the globe, and some gamers have achieved celebrity status.
3 commentsSo, for the past 4 days I’ve kinda taken a break away from Halo 3…..I know what you’re thinkin Your a pro gam3r, you can’t take a break, but since I’ve been playing more hardcore on H3, I’ve had to ignore one of my other loves. I’m a huge Final Fantasy fan, wait no, I’m a HUGE Final Fantasy LOVER! I’ve been playing since FFVIII and I haven’t stopped since. Before I went to the winter CPL in Dallas, I was very deep into the story line of Final Fantasy XII. 150 hours deep into the story line, but practice set in for the tournament, and soon I began to get Final Fantasy amnesia.
So I decided that I needed to get back into the game…..hmmmm where was I?? And what’s the story about again?? I cant believe that I actually forgot the story line 150 hours in! But starting over just wasn’t an option because I had worked so hard to get where I was, so I went side questing and rare game hunting, searching the world for the rarest of rarest loot to make the best weapons in the game.
And let me tell you, Final Fantasy XII has the most complex systems for getting weapons and armor than any FF series that I’ve ever played. In order to get a great sword or a decent shield, you have to try to find treasure chests that only spawn a small percentage of the time, and when the do spawn they have a small percentage of having the weapon you’re looking for, or you have to find very rare monsters that drop very rare loot that you can sell in combinations to get more loot that you have to sell in another combination, and only then are you able to buy these items for an insane amount of gil! I know that you may be confused, you should be unless you’ve played this game. All I can say is that this is one of the only things that I absolutely HATE about this game.
Since I’ve been playing for the past few days, I’ve hit the 178 hour mark, I’ve managed to get the Excalibur and the Masamune sword and the Zodiak shield, I’ve given up on trying to get the Tournesol and I’m definitely not even gonna get the Zodiac Spear, at least not this round, and I’ve hunted 25 of the 80 rare game. I only have 1 or 2 more clan hunts to complete, 2 more Espers to obtain, and my highest level is 65 with Vaan. I feel like I’ve caught the collector’s bug now because the past 28 gamer hours of my life had nothing to do with the story and everything to do with stealing loot and traversing the farthest reaches of the world for treasure chests and rare game with 20% appearance rates!
Now I hope that I didn’t turn anyone off of this game if they haven’t gotten it yet, it’s a little over a year old I think. It’s a very long game and you’re kind of forced to become a perfectionist with all it’s complexities. I have a feeling I’ll be playing this game for another 50 hours before I decide to figure out the story line again! I just hope this holds me over to Final Fantasy XIII!
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In one week it’s time to pack the bags to go to the next gaming event. This time I won’t go that far though, I will go to the north part of Sweden to take part of DreamHack Skellefteå. DreamHack, the biggest LAN in the world, takes place twice a year in Jönköping, but this year they’ve expanded and will host an event in Skellefteå as well.
There will be a lot of tournaments at the LAN, among others ESWC pre qualifiers for CS and WC3. But the most spectacular tournament must be the CounterStrike one, where each player in the winning team receive a block of solid gold at a value of 10.000 euro.
I won’t be competing in any games myself this time though. I will be there filming the event for television and I won’t have time for playing any games. But it will be fun to be there anyway.
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Cebit is now over and me and Ms.X are back home in Sweden and Canada. We had a great time working for Belkin demonstrating the speed pad N52TE. There were a lot of people interested in the unit and a lot of people that signed up for playing me and Ms.X in the shootouts.
Each day we did a total of 32 shootout games and anyone could sign up to play us. I played Quake 4 (map Lost Fleet TMP) and Ms.X played Unreal Tournament 3 (map Sentinel). It was good to have two games to play since the challengers could sign up for the game of their choice.
After each session consisting of 8 games, the challenger with the highest amount of frags against us won their own N52TE. A pretty good prize considering it won’t be out on the market until April.
During the whole event me and Ms.X stayed undefeated, but a few people managed to get one or two frags and win their own N52TE. 
Congratulations to all the winners!!! and GG (good game) to all of you challengers that played us.
Thank you Belkin and all the other nice people I met during Cebit for making this event to a great experience.
We will try to get some photo’s up for you later.
5 commentsWe all girls have our favourite games that we always come back to, but we also play other games on the side. Here are a list of what games are played in the clan more or less right now:
We are trying new games all the time. Do you play a good game that you think we should try? Leave us a comment about it, and some girls might get tempted to try. :)
4 commentsI have a really bad flu right now but I just had to write a quick blog and express my love for this game. I have not yet tried it on the PC, only Xbox 360 but damn! It’s so much fun and I’ve been playing like mad for the last week or so. It all started when top Quake III player “fazz” from Sweden was urging me to buy it, after I told him I’ve been going hard on Halo 3. I took his advice and found one for sale on Craigslist (I shop CL for lots of stuff!)
I believe this is a must have for any gamers collection who loves FPS shooters. I haven’t seen it on PC, but I think it’s safe to assume it’s just as fabulous! RocketQueen also bought herself a new gaming rig and has been having some sleepless nights.
I’ve still been playing a bit of Halo 3 but overall I prefer this game…I also picked up Rock Band though I’m going to return it and get Guitar Hero III instead. Here’s a little video clip to display what the game is like, though it really doesn’t do this game justice as you must experience it yourself! The graphics are amazing too 
GL & HF!