UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Here is a veritable smorgasbord of news post goodness, with some recent posts taking up a large amount of space, I thought it'd be in the best interests of all to compile all of these noteworthy news bits into one post, so without further ado - here we go.

Cornwall, home of the turnip and the (once) mighty tin mines, isn't known for its LAN's nor its Counter-Stike players (DoZ doesn't count, not being born and bred Cornish), but one of these is set to change with the announcement of Pro-LAN 2, this LAN aims to bring together forty gamers for two whole days of action packed LAN fun, I shall be in attendance and while that may be cause to avoid it, I endeavoured to pimp it to you none the less.

CAution! have released a Counter-Strike movie following their sucesses at the We Got Rhythm 4 tournament. This movie is short but sweet and includes some great camera direction, while this can distract you from the actual game events or appear to be intrusive at times, I prefer this to the a standard fare of CS movies. It's an artform luvvie! You can get hold of this movie by clicking here or going to the Team AMD Gamer website and doing the old Sherlock routine. Please note! You must register to download.

In We Got Rhythm 4 related news, Par from suiGeneris; the irish powerhouse (TM), has written an article about his experiences at the tournament, it's a very entertaining read and well worth the time spent reading, you can find it HERE.

Also in WGR news, -psy- has written a report about the same event, and it has been posted on the [ukt] columns section, you can read it HERE.

Only a few weeks ago vesslan announced his retirement from professional gaming which intern included his departure from actively playing in Adrenaline leaving them with a 5 man roster.

Now comes another blow to the squad with the departure of Snajdan cutting them down to just 4 men which intern could have major knock on effects towards their upcoming playoffs in SEL this Sunday at the Ownage GameCenter in Stockholm.

Reasoning behind the sudden departure of Snajdan from the squad seems to be that he was`nt happy with the commitment from the rest of the team.

Remaining lineup:

Lucchese

Notorious

quick

XeqtR

Best of luck to Snajdan in which ever direction he takes, also to Adrenaline for a hasty recovery.

With the Summer 2004 CPL over the registrations for the winter 2004 event have begun. The event is being held at the old venue at Hyatt Regency and will be held from December 15th to December 19th.

So far registration has been opened for two tournaments:

Counter-Strike 5vs5 sponsored by Hitachi ($100,000).

Doom III 1on1 sponsored by NVIDIA ($50,000).

The places are available in a first come first served basis only with admission fee`s set to $80 per competitor including the BYOC and $20 for spectators.

A tiny Steam client update has been released, As per usual restart your Steam to update.

STEAM CLIENT CHANGES / ADDITIONS:

Improved how Steam handles corrupted cache files.

Listed 3rd Party Games under My Games.

Gaming site IGN have released their very own preview of the soon to be released CSource. The article does`nt give away any new information in particular but does boast a new in game screenshot.



Sticking to the same theme VALVe has created a new CSource forum over at the Steam Powered website in preperation for peoples opinions when the port has been officially released.

Finally VALVE`s Greg Coomer provided some updated screenshots from the much anticipated Half-Life2 in a forum post over at Half-Life2.net. You can checkout the thread and updated pics in full here.