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August 2005 Archives

Community Tidbits - Sunday 8/28/2005 by CaliGirl
 

Dreamfall Delayed - Sunday 8/28/2005 by CaliGirl
Funcom has announced that Dreamfall: The Longest Journey has been rescheduled to be released for PC and Windows in the spring of 2006. The highly anticipated adventure was initially slated for a Q4 2005 release. [Further Details]

Gamespot TV Tourney Coverage - Saturday 8/27/2005 by CaliGirl
Gamespot Live has been broadcasting live coverage for GameCenter's CS: Source Tournament called Operation First Strike. Tune in to catch live coverage on August 28th at 9:30am PT to watch the first Semi-finals group. Second group semi-finals will be held at 11:00am PT, while the Finals start at 3:30pm PT.

Lucasfilm & HP Get Cozy! - Friday 8/26/2005 by CaliGirl
Hewlett Packard has a contract to supply PCs and servers to Star Wars creator Lucasfilm. In addition to this, HP will provide a 35-terabyte-capacity HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array for storing and archiving audiovisual content produced by Lucasfilm. [Further Details]

Sky Bubbles (oops!) - Tuesday 8/23/2005 by CaliGirl
As many of you know, LadyGamers.com is focused on action and strategy games. Today we thought we'd be rebelious by mentioning a game not related to the genres. Alawar has sent news about Sky Bubbles, a fun addicting puzzle type of game. If you look at the screenshots on the official site it may look like a Bejeweled clone. The gameplay has some 3d kicks as you'll zoom around to different scenery backgrounds. There are 2 main options for gameplay style; lines or swap, plus an adventure mode that requires you to accomplish certain things to level up. If you're wanting a chance in gameplay, the demo is worth a try.

MsQCon Finalists Battle Backlash - Tuesday 8/23/2005 by CaliGirl
There have been quite a few male gamers that have been very negative about female gamers being sponsored, and winning money in competitions. Cursive from GGL happened to be a guy that hung around the Quakecon tournament area to do coverage for GGL for the duration of the event. His article entitled, "QuakeCon Females Battle Backlash" has his point of view, and quotes a few of the ladies on what they felt on the matter. Its a very nice read. Its so great to see when guy gamers try to figure out why female gamers want to compete. Here's a quote that makes so much sense by Kornelia Tactacs:

“It lets them play in a safe and secure environment with other girls and to see that it is possible for them to play competitively,”

From what she says there, its like a way of building each girl's confidence to compete in regular tournaments in the future. This article has been added to MsQcon 2005 Coverage.

GeekWear for LadyGamers Guide - Sunday 8/21/2005 by CaliGirl
LadyGamers’ has released a Geek Wear guide for any of you ladies who find it hard to get any cool apparel in relation to your favorite games or geek lingo. –beta and I investigate all over the net to bring you the GeekWear for LadyGamers Guide, which has been added to our guides bin for future references.

Community Cluster - Sunday 8/21/2005 by CaliGirl
 

Events

MsQcon 2005 Coverage - Tuesday 8/16/2005 by CaliGirl
LadyGamers is excited to present this year's coverage for Ms. Quakecon 2005. For the first time, QuakeCon featured an all-female Quake 3 tournament with $30,000 in prize money. At this time we have some of the participant's profiles listed on the MsQcon coverage page, news exposure from other sites and more picture galleries will be added soon.

Sin Episodes Interview - Wednesday 8/10/2005 by CaliGirl
Sinepisodes.net has conducted an interview with some of the Ritual Entertainment crew. Here's an excerpt:

Chris_D: Throughout SiN, Blade was the only playable character. Will any parts of the game, or even whole episodes, be played out by any of the other characters like JC or Jessica?

Steve Hessel: Having different playable characters is something we’ve been talking about, especially since each of our characters would have a very specific style of play. Blade usually tends to go in guns blazing, while Jessica might prefer a more sneaky approach. JC on the other hand is all about hacking and cyber-infiltration, so that could make for some interesting gameplay situations as well.

Might & Magic FPS? - Monday 8/8/2005 by CaliGirl
Ubisoft recently announced the development of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, a new first person action game for the PC. The game will be powered by an enhanced version of the Source Engine, which is the technology behind Half-Life2. [Further Details]

Kornelia Zoomed In - Monday 8/8/2005 by CaliGirl
We now have a legendary female player added to our Zoomed In feature under Ladyhunt. LadyGamers' Zoomed In normally highlights how popular a female gamer is with links to articles they are mentioned in, interviews, and much more. Kornelia Takacs has competed since Quake 1, and has moved on to Quake 3 and Doom 3. Years ago I planned on having a Zoomed feature on Kornelia but at the time she stopped competing in Quake 3.

At Quakecon 2004, Kornelia was featured at the Activision booth where players tried to beat her at Doom 3. Rumor has it that we will see a lot more of Kornelia competing in tournaments again. [Kornelia's Domain]

Community Cluster - Sunday 8/7/2005 by CaliGirl
LadyGamers.com will be release MsQcon 2005 profiles in the next day or so. Keep an eye out for them. If you are participating in MsQcon and haven't received an email from me, please check this thread. Meantime, here are some community tidbits.

Female Gamer Mentions

Community Events

  • BlizzConTournaments: Blizzard Entertainment plans on attracting the world's best Real-Time Strategy players for their upcoming BlizzCon, held in Anaheim, California this October 2005. The champions of the StarCraft and Warcraft III invitational tournaments will be able to look forward to taking home a check for $10,000 to accompany their winner's trophy.

Bang! Howdy Announced - Saturday 8/6/2005 by CaliGirl
Three Rings has recently announced the development of their next game, Bang! Howdy, a multiplayer online tactical strategy game set in the steam-powered Wild West. Bang! Howdy is played in short fast-paced rounds. The players use winnings earned as they play, along with a microcurrency system, to purchase and customize persistent Big Shot units, which influence their play-style and strategies in future games. [Further Details]
 

FEAR SP Demo - Friday 8/5/2005 by CaliGirl
This singleplayer demo for the action-horror FPS F.E.A.R. has been released. It includes an introductory cutscene and a portion of the mission from the full game where you must find and neutralize Paxon Fettel.

Community Cluster - Friday 8/5/2005 by CaliGirl
Female Gamer Related Articles

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Latest Files - Wednesday 8/3/2005 by CaliGirl

F.E.A.R Demo This Friday - Wednesday 8/3/2005 by CaliGirl
According to GS, the F.E.A.R. demo should be released this Friday. F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is a spooky paranormal-themed FPS focused on an elite task force sent to investigate some unusual doings in a strange compound. As a new recruit, gamers will be thrown into the fire with an experienced team against unusual enemies led by a psychically enhanced defector. The horror aspect is further compounded by in-game hallucinations... [Further Details]

GameCenter Battlefield 2 Tourney - Monday 8/1/2005 by CaliGirl
With the GameCenter Sneak Peek ending, Gamespot held a Battlefield 2 tournament over the weekend as a thank you gift to their beta users. There were $1,500 in cash prizes handed out to the top players. The tournament started with 64 players, and ended with the top 4 teams with 8 players on each team. Each player came on their own as GameCenter randomly placed them on a team to duke it out in Battlefield 2. Team C won a tight finals round 2-1, coming back with two straight after losing the opening match. Match scores were 0-19, 64-0, and 31-0. Team B won 2-0 against the short-handed Team D for 3rd place. The MVP Award went to Team C's InTwoGames (Battlefield 2 name "=TA=Elite") [Further Details]

 

 

 

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