In addition to their excellent shoutcast, EnemyTerritory.tv will be teaming up with TGBF.tv this Sunday to provide live video coverage of the =GzR= Invitational Tourney, a colossal 12 on 12 fragfest. In this particular match, the old dirty men of GeezeR Gaming (GzR) will be facing off against The Art of War (TAW), with the action set to start at 9:30pm Eastern Time. With this being 12 on 12 and campaign mode, the rules and restrictions that the community is used to seeing in the 6v6 competitive leagues will not be in effect, so prepare for a unique, no-holds barred event as the GDF and Stroggies battle for territory throughout an entire campaign. You can tune into EnemyTerritory.tv’s live shoutcast stream this Sunday at 9:30 PM EST and catch the video feed over at TGBF.tv.

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The winners of the Golden Joysticks 2008 are set to be announced on Friday of next week, so there’s only a few days left to vote for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and its developer Splash Damage! We’re up for an amazing six of the statuettes and every 10,000th voter gets a cool prize ranging from games and magazine subscriptions to consoles and even HDTVs! To vote, simply head over to this page and pick your winners. ETQW and Splash Damage are up for the following:

• Nuts All Nighter – Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
• PC Game of the Year – Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
• PlayStation Game of the Year – Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
• UK Developer of the Year – Splash Damage
• Ultimate Game of the Year – Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars
• Xbox Game of the Year – Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars

Just remember that it’s all for the children tapirs.

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The latest season of the Cyberathlete Amateur League‘s Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars division is in full swing and the boys over at EnemyTerritory.tv are there to bring you all the latest coverage, ranging from weekly match previews to regular match shoutcasts, topped off with on-demand goodness. Greased and the gang are doing a fantastic job of serving up all the latest CAL carnage, so sail over the ET.TV news page for the latest scheduled ‘casts and look for a preview of that week’s matches every Monday.

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Just one short Earth year ago, a Stroyent-filled Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars arrived on store shelves everywhere and has been dropping Deployables on unsuspecting teammates ever since. It’s fantastic for us to see so many people around the world still enjoying the game and that is in no small part thanks to our community – undoubtedly one of the most passionate and dedicated to be found anywhere in the Intertubes. Better yet, the modders and map makers out there have a ton of new content in the works, and with great mods like Wheels of War, Tribal Wars, and a boatload of user-created maps on the horizon, there’s plenty to keep ETQW fans everywhere excited. Happy birthday, ETQW!

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Tribal Wars is a brand-new total conversion modification for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars that promises to bring a Cyclops-sized dose of Starsiege: Tribes to the game. The mod is said to focus heavily on CTF-style gameplay and will feature all-new weapons, player models, and levels. For those of you wanting to see and read more about it, the Tribal Wars website is now online and features a trailer, screenshots, concept art, and a development blog. There’s no release date yet, but the team is looking to have a public beta at some point in the unspecified future.

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Another edition of our user content showcase Snap to Grid is here, with ETQW Mapping‘s Chairman and world-famous duck collector Terry ‘Salteh’ Seidler taking a look at the latest beta version of After the War 3: Nightraid. Some of you may remember that an earlier version of the map was featured in the second installment of the series – this latest version features all the objectives along with a few other tweaks. Fearlessly click the link for a full description of the map, along with screenshots and download information!

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Give your eyes a workout with these latest items rolling off the SplashDamage.com assembly line.

• Things You Were Too Afraid to Ask: David ‘Davros’ Edwards
  The level designer formerly know as Torchy, David ‘Dravros’ Edwards stars in this edition of our on-going series of staff interviews. Dave brush-built his way through several Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars maps and is chiefly responsible for the frantic infantry action on Salvage.
• Things You Were Too Afraid to Ask: Chris ‘Hauser’ Bull
  As Splash Damage’s Animator, Chris ‘Hauser’ Bull is literally responsible for getting things moving, at least as far as game characters and models are concerned. Chris handled the bulk of the animation work on Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, and he is now taking things to the next level by animating the first real-life Splash Damage baby.
• Currently Hurling Controllers / Mice At… Get Off My Lawn! Edition
  Games, games, games! With Spore, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, and Mercenaries 2, several fresh releases have finally arrived and we promptly share our thoughts on all of them.
• Why Dev Studios Are Better Off Being Independent
  Splash Damage is independently owned, but what does that actually mean? Our Development Manager Stephen ‘malarky’ Gaffney sheds some, well, a lot of light on that and explains why independent studios are better for gamers and the people working there.

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For those of you wanting to frag in style, the gaming system gurus at GameRigs have launched a brand-new line of gaming desktops and laptops based on Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. Clad in custom game artwork, the systems boast top-of-the-line components supplied by NVIDIA, Intel, and Crucial.

But rather than just slapping a game logo on a case, the guys also include ETQW mousepads and the official strategy guide with each of the systems, and even pre-install a copy of the game, so you can hop straight into the action when you get your new PC. Best of all, you can get $300 off for a limited time by using the coupon code QUAKECON08.

Finally, if you prefer to live a tad later in the QUAKE timeline, all the GameRigs hardware also comes QUAKE 4-flavored. And if you’re a console gamer yearning for some QUAKE goodness, GameRigs also has you covered with these rather pretty Xbox 360 and PS3 skins.

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Snap to Grid, Splash Damage’s regular look at up-and-coming user-created content for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, is back with another installment! This week, ETQW Mapping‘s lead singer Terry ‘Salteh’ Seidler focuses on Spirit Speedway, a map for the hotly anticipated Wheels of War mod for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, and its objective-driven twin Free Spirit City. To top it all off, Salteh also manages to update us on the progress of three of the most popular user-made maps currently in development for the game. Click here to get reading!

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The Group Thing, a multi-gaming community spanning several games including Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, has successfully launched into the depths of the intertubes. Sponsored by Direct Clan Hosting and Rackage, The Group Thing aims to provide servers and leagues for gamers wanting to play in a friendly environment in the vain of the now-defunct Barrysworld. The Group Thing’s Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars league is said to be coming soon along with actual prizes – for more on this, keep an eye on their website, where you can also register a free account to join their community.

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DemonWare will be conducting some emergency maintenance on their cluster of game authentication servers tomorrow, which includes the login servers for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. This sounds worse than it actually is – the issue in question involves a software update for one of the routers and is not expected to disrupt the service for more than 5 minutes. If you’re connecting to the master server via Telia routes, you may be disconnected during that time, but if all goes well, the maintenance should go without a hitch and you won’t notice a thing.

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British e-sports and gaming channel XLEAGUE will be broadcasting the finals of their Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars tournament on their freshly rebranded television channel PULSE tomorrow morning. This promises to an exciting match with Team Dignitas taking on UK heavyweight 4Kings.

The tournament was organized in cooperation with Enemy Down and is sponsored by Packard Bell, who will graciously be burying the winning team in a pile of cutting edge gaming PCs. Information on the PULSE TV channel can be found here.

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PlanetQuakeWars.net has a new interview with yours truly, mainly focusing on the allegation that I’m the Community Relations Manager at Splash Damage and as such terrorize all of you on a regular basis. Topics covered include my duties, the thinking behind the the ETQW Community Site and its impact on fan sites, the recently released SDK, the Ranked Servers program, and more. If Deutsch is more your thing, you can find a German translation here.

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