UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Over at ShackNews its been said that Valve have hired the creator of BitTorrent to help them in the task of delivering HL2/CS:CZ. As you could imagine the servers are patchy enough at the moment let alone 100,000 people trying to download a 1gig+ game through Steam at the same time. Wether or not the plans are to incoperate BitTorrent technology into Steam or actually use a BitTorrent type program remains to be seen, non-the-less an interesting combo.

On a day usually quiet in the gaming scene, as gamer's everywhere prepare for and go out with their evening's dates (or in most cases probably don't), there has been little activity. A couple news pieces have been floating around, though not significant to everyone.

Firstly, for those of you with ATI graphics cards, this one could be particularly useful: ATI have updated their Catalyst drivers for their range of video cards - including changes specific to Half-Life and Counter-Strike.

The changes specific to HL/CS, as detailed in their changelog, are as follows:

• Returning to the main menu in the game Counter-Strike no longer results in the game's refresh rate reverting back to 60Hz when resuming game play.


• The game Half-Life is now displayed properly under Windows XP when the game resolution is set to either 320x240 or 400x300.

Here are the driver updates.

Secondly, those of you with knowledge of the Dutch CS scene will know about mysod.nl - a clan that recently beat TAG and a prominent side in the Dutch scene. They were formed mostly of ex Re-Flex members - a team that dominated the Dutch scene and competed in last years ESWC.

Well Re-Flex have now reformed, with the following line-up:

a1ex - eve - Sept - redstar - vorton

Looking very promising indeed, best of luck to them.

A 3rd piece of news for all you unlucky gamer's staying in tonight, and this one provides a little more of a read.

Over at E-Sports EA, Thorin has already interviewed 3D|Ksharp, NoA|Method, mibr|Kiko, and NoA|ShaGuar this month.

Following this trend of good work, he has now interviewed Rival|Ph33r. Talking about Ph33r's rise in the international CS scene, his teams, the Rival-vs-iFate CXG encounter, and most notably Ph33r's clutch play, famous from the Summer 2003 CPL, the interview makes 10 minutes well spent.

Regarding "one of the most sought-after commodities in the competitive scene", 'clutch' play (triumphing against the odds and under pressure, eg: 1vs4), Ph33r has this to say:



To read the rest of the interview, look no further.

Those of you with knowledge of the Dutch CS scene will know about mysod.nl - a clan that recently beat TAG and a prominent side in the Dutch scene. They were formed mostly of ex Re-Flex members - a team that dominated the Dutch scene and competed in last years ESWC.

Well Re-Flex have now reformed, with the following line-up:



Looking very promising indeed, best of luck to them.

They are also searching for news-posters for their website, which can be found here.

Last night the topic in UK/Swe hybrid clan Noneed's IRC channel officially announced their new sponsorship deal with HiGhland Online. After previous unsuccessful sponsorings of all-Swedish clans, the Scandinavian internet-cafe company has turned it's attentions to Noneed, who can currently be seen competing online in the ClanBase CS Challenge.