With Season 6 coming to an end, ESEA has started the voting process for the representitives of the East and West teams in their respective all-star games. 18 players have been chosen for CS as well as for CS:S, while 24 players have been selected for TF2. The all-star game is set to take place on June 10th.

compLexity is featured in both CS 1.6 and TF2 this season, with 5 of our players up for nomination.

CS 1.6

East
buskey (ULTIMAX GAMING)
dboorN^_^vauMs (compLexity)
Garett^ (East Coast Offensive)
herotowNCBCB (compLexity)
icy^t (High Rollers Gaming)
iNERTiA (Underestimated)
n0swal (East Coast Offensive)
nAZ_Lg (Loaded_CS)
SEMPHIS^FETCH (Ruins)

West
Adrenaline_1g (Loaded_CS)
djibouti (Loaded_CS)
fRoD^A (Evil Geniuses)
n0thing^G (Evil Geniuses)
seangares_a (Ruins)
spyro (Underestimated)
TRULS (Ruins)
tuBBy^_^st (ULTIMAX GAMING)
zid_ (Underestimated)

CS:S

East
adreN_HOAG (Dynamic-CSS)
AZK (Dynamic-CSS)
devour (Demonic)
forever0_p_ (Immortal Seven CSS)
hRL (Blight CSS CA)
Legend_ (Dynamic-CSS)
ridic (Demonic)
ridox (Blight CSS CA)
UTP (Crucial Connexion)

West
_–aLive–_ (51)
COLO_ (Blight CSS CA)
DaZeD (Netcode Illuminati)
frozt (Netcode Illuminati)
hersheysquirtsss (n24life)
jarrod_ (CyberRevolution)
TORRR (Crucial Connexion)
xperience (Netcode Illuminati)
yehoshuaparuah (CyberRevolution)

TF2

East
-CB (Area51 Gaming)
bigpun (Nexus Gaming)
carnage (ComplexityTF2)
cyzer (EG TF2)
FastFire (Area51 Gaming)
Platinum- (Blight Gaming TF2)
raf (eMazing Gaming TF2)
Reptile_ (EG TF2)
RocketSurgeon (Nexus Gaming)
smakers (Blight Gaming TF2)
SoLIDSnaKE (ComplexityTF2)
TheFragile (blight-fanom)

West
-Otter (Apocalypse Gaming)
ducky (Area51 Gaming)
dummy (EG TF2)
enoryt (eMazing Gaming TF2)
exploit (ComplexityTF2)
Luciious (Nexus Gaming)
mesr (Blight Gaming TF2)
Ruwin (blight-fanom)
Sigma (Apocalypse Gaming)
TLR (blight-fanom)
xsephy (Apocalypse Gaming)
Yz50 (eMazing Gaming TF2)

Voting will be open until June 8th. Place your votes by clicking here

Today’s show will feature a very special guest, one who they’ve been teasing about for a long time. Major League Gaming‘s Sundance DiGiovanni will join the show, giving his first interview since becoming CEO of MLG when three weeks ago former CEO Matthew Bromberg stepped down after a difference in opinion with Sundance on the future of MLG.

They will talk with Sundance about several topics including:

The incident with Bromberg and what his differing vision of the league is, additions to the PC circuit including the possible selection of Quake Live and Starcraft 2, the difficulties of inclding Super Street Fighter 4, the release of Halo: Reach and the impact moving forward, the floundering of GotFrag.com and how GameBattles.com is shaping up, and why MLG refuses to use the term “eSports”, plus much more!

Other news topics today include:

– Blizzard signs official deal with GomTV for Starcraft 2, Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and WoW in Korea, dropping KeSPA and giving the league’s till August to figure things out
– Flash destroys a rather lackluster Jaedong 3-0 to win the MSL finals
– White-Ra takes out Idra in the HDH finals, Tester wrecks Idra and White-Ra in the Altitude TL Invitational
– EG announces MSI tournament series for Quake Live, CS 1.6, TF2 and Starcraft 2 which will have at least $3,500 per tournament
– Na’Vi invited to Dreamhack, DaHanG has to drop out due to school commitments
– ESWC hosting a $5,000 fragmovie contest
– Live updates from the NorCal Regionals featuring Justin Wong, Mike Ross, John Choi, Ricky Ortiz and more

Tune into Live On Three today at 21:00 BST on djWHEAT.tv

The Evil Geniuses organization has recently announced their new online PC Gaming Tournament called the “EG Master Cup Series.” The event, in partnership with MSI notebooks, features a $3000 cash prize every month along with various MSI products.

The tournament will cater to the following games:

Quake Live
Counter-Strike 1.6
Team Fortress 2
Starcraft II

EG had the following to say in their press release:

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – May 27th, 2010. – Today Evil Geniuses (EG) in partnership with MSI Notebook has announced a new online PC gaming tournament series entitled the, “Evil Geniuses Master’s Cup Series.” The series will feature monthly online competitions each featuring cash prize pots of $3,000.00 as well as MSI Notebook’s new G-Series laptops. Beginning with the Quake Live tournament, the series will include competitions for Counter-Strike 1.6, Team Fortress 2, and Starcraft II. Additionally, well-known internet broadcaster Marcus “djWheat” Graham will be performing live game broadcasts for each Grand Finals event weekend.

The initial series, registration of which opens today, will feature the popular PC first-person-shooter Quake Live title in a sixty-four player bracket. In addition to the bracket competition, MSI Notebook will allow tournament winners to compete in a ‘Play against the Pros’ best-of-five exhibition match versus a Team EG professional gamer for a MSI Notebook G-Series laptop.

“We’re thankful to have MSI Notebook so heavily engaged in the gaming community,” said Alex Garfield, Executive Director of Evil Geniuses. “Their G-Series notebooks are the only notebooks we have our gamers use because their power and performance are essential to any gaming victory.”

You can find out more information about the Evil Geniuses Master’s Cup Series by clicking here.

The ESWC, in partnership with Allo Cine have announced a $5,000 Counter-Strike Movie contest called the “Frag Movie Festival.” The contest is open to the public and has few restrictions. Users are free to use whatever software they’d like, as well as whatever clips they’d like.

The deadline for the contest is June 10th, in which time all submissions must be sent to [email protected]. From there, the top 10 movies will be considered the finalists.

Between June 11-30th, fans will be able to vote for the best movie. Votes will be counted and the winner will be announced on July 4th, 2010 during the ESWC World Finals.

More information about the contest can be found by clicking here.

With MLG Columbus right around the corner, starting on June 4th, MLG has announced 14 out of the 16 teams who will be attending the event. Included in the list are notables such as coL.Black and Red, Button Bashers, who will be playing under the Loaded tag, and Fnatic.

Teams will be placed into one of two groups with 8 teams in each group. The top two from each group will advance to the double elimination bracket to determine the champion. Teams will be competing for over $15,000.

The list of teams is as follows:

1. Nerdstompers (Hoodrych, Velsuz, Nadagast)
2. Fnatic (Yog, Douja, Woundman)
3. Complexity Red (Snutz, Venruki, Reckful, Sodah)
4. Complexity Black (Toez, Flexx, Twixz)
5. PK Cards (Zilea, Valrath, Veex)
6. Team EG (Azael, Pookz, Cdew)
7. Loaded Blue (Didy, Deltons, Brogo)
8. Loaded Black (Orangemarmalade, Numberone, Satz)
9. Rensy’s Team (Voodoomoose, Rensyx, Champyz)
10. Skill Capped Central (Filovirus, Nevershock, Zyz)
11. Skill Capped East (Enforcer, Verty, Jigslol)
12. Skill Capped West (Vidra, Pollee, Diziet, Bothi)
13. ArenaPwnage.com (Talbadar, Nuvos, Drmayonaise)
14. SK Gaming U.S. (Realz, Glickz, Kollektiv)
15. To Be Determined
16. To Be Determined

More information regarding the event can be found by clicking here

Update 05/28: The two organizations have come to a final agreement, with Andre “BARBARR” Möller and Andreas “moddii” Fridh going to MYM and Frey “kHRYSTAL” Sjöström and Emil “FYRR73” Karlsson going to H2K.

Update: The MYM organization has now announced that the move was hasty and that nothing is on paper yet, making the announcement unofficial. As of this update, the players and organization are in talks, but nothing has been finalized.

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After months of sub-par results, the MYM organization has announced the pickup of two new players and the departure of two others. Frey “kHRYSTAL” Sjöström and Emil “FYRR73” Karlsson will be departing the organization after a short stint with the team. Replacing them will be H2K notable Andre “BARBARR” Möller and H2K LAN ringer Andreas “moddii” Fridh.

This brings the new MYM roster to:

Faruk “pita” Pita
Marcus “Delpan” Larsson
Marcus “zet” Sundström
Andre “BARBARR” Möller
Andreas “moddii” Fridh

MYM will be participating in Dreamhack Summer next month. More information about the team can be found at their website.

Several months ago, we reported that ESWC was listed as a participant in the E3 event that will be taking place on June 15-17th in Los Angeles, California. With no announcement of a US qualifier, it was suspected that the ESWC booth would house a tournament area or stage.

Unfortunately, ESWC has announced that they will be attending the event only to expand their international presence. They have also announced that they will be attending Games Com in Cologne, Germany.

Below is the official release:

In order to maintain the ESWC’s international development, our team will be at E3 in Los Angeles, USA, from June 15th to 17th. The E3 or Electronic Entertainment Expo is the worldwide biggest video games show.

We are also going to be at the Games Com in Cologne, Germany, the biggest event in Europe for video games from June 19th to 22nd.

If you wanna visit us, we will be at « Le Pavillon Français » with Ubifrance.

For more information on ESWC’s plans, visit their official site.

After 73,000 signatures and heated opposition from citizens, Germany has lifted the ban on violent video games. Germany originally banned the violent games last year which included both the sale and the playing of violent video games, which would include several popular games.

The petition argued that the government should instead be implementing a plan to teach the general public about the PEGI system, the equivelant of the ESRB system in the United States.

Germany has often been on the offensive against games depicting cruel acts on humans or human-like creatures. They even went so far as to ban Silent Hunter 5 due to its use of swastikas, even in historical context at times.

Early in the 1980’s, a small, round, single-celled super hero was born. His name, Pacman. Today, he turns 30 years old.

Pacman was released by the Namco company in 1980. It was eventually licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway. As an icon of the 80s, Pacman became the most successful coin-operated video game in history. With over 12 sequels or spin-offs, the game has spawned a cult following and is one of the world’s most recognizable figures.

We’d like to officially wish Pacman a very happy 30th birthday and we hope for many more. For those interested in playing the game, Google has changed their logo to display a fully playable version of the game.