Well, it's that time of year again, where we remember one of our old members who's no longer with us. Nick Butcher, aka TG|Nikonus passed away on the 23rd of March 2005 and back then we decided we'd try and keep his memory going by having an annual award for the TG member who helps the clan by having a positive attitude and a willingness to help.

In previous years it's been awarded to long standing stalwarts of the clan, but as ever it is open to all members and we really do look at contributions from all people who are put forward. If you think you know someone in TG who deserves this award, get in touch with one of the clan admins by PM or over Steam and just let them know why.

Nick's parents have often stopped by to comment on the award, and while we hope they will this year, we by no means expect it. It's just nice to know that links can be made, even from something as trivial as online gaming.

Anyway - nominations are open, get cracking

Well, it's been talked about for a while, but TG is finally getting active in JK2 again.

Thanks to LlamaOnDrug's kind, kind actions in buying us a server, all the old skool JK2 players have suddenly dusted off the ageing Jedi robes and are once again kicking ass on the servers. This also co-incides with some proper old skool boys suddenly turning up again, so WB Talon, and if my eyes don't deceive me.. Ninko!

Our server is 79.170.193.52:28070

and you'll see us playing lots of the custom maps over the coming weeks. Everything we play will be available for download here - so put those files in your Gamedata/Base folder and join the fun. Once upon a time TG had 50 JK2 players, even now I can count off 10 who've been playing the past couple of days, so lets see what happens next C'mon old timers, find that CD and join us!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hope you all have a really nice day with your families and that Santa/Sinter gives you some nice goodies I'm sure there's going to be plenty of gaming over the next few days (once the Christmas meal has been digested) so be sure to get on xfire and steam and come join in!

The JK2 game is still going ahead, and STEAM have reduced it in price even further to just £3 so go get it! We're currently talking about the 27th for a game so you've still got a day left.

Yo peeps! After spotting that JK2 was available on STEAM for a measly £6.99, I'm bullying everyone I can think of to come play one of TG's all time great games this Christmas! Lets see if we can remember how to do it and see if we can have some proper "NF Sabres GF GG" fun on Bespin Pad. Forum post here.

So far the exact dates are a bit sketchy, but it looks like the 27th December is pretty much on, and I suspect there could be a repeat session or two over the holiday period as well! I'm organising a server (or frankly we can just take over someone else's) so be sure to spread the word to all the Jedi you meet and lets have some beers and wave our glowy sticks around a bit.

Wait, that sounds weird... :S

Guild Wars 2 might still be far away from even it's beta testing stage, but there have been some awesome videos released showing off some gameplay and some races. Another video has recently been released:

Guild Wars 2 - Videos

It seems like it still has managed to keep a lot of what made the first game(s) so good, but many new features are to be expected. Whether the outcome will be good or not it's hard to say. I do know though that many TG players are itching to play this game right now.

If you are interested in following the Guild Wars 2 development I'd suggest you sign up for the Newsletter which can be done from the same page where the link will take you.

Tomorrow night as an attempt to get started a bit more with the HoN division there will be a meeting and an open practise for those of you that would like to get a chance to play in the team. Take a chance to have some fun and get the opportunity to show us what you are worth!

Leading the event will Ehnen do, he'll also be able to supply you with a beta key and introduce you to the game if you are new.

The only we demand from you if you are going to take part is that you are either a TG member or a member of TGT.
It will start around 21.00 CET, make sure to be on Teamspeak a couple of minutes before that so we know who'll show up!

EDIT: Due to an unfortunate collision in Ehnen and some other players time schedules this will be put on hold until further notice

Even though the expansion to the well recieved Return To Castle Wolfenstein didn't perhaps pan out as Splashdamage thought from the beginning, we can with great confidence 6 years now after it's release say that Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is still a great game.

It was supposed to be full fledged expansion with it's own story and such, however this wasn't to be the case. Instead it got released as a free multiplayer online game which managed to get much attention. The game got immensly popular and a clan that where to pick it up eventually and start their own division was TG|. Led by Goatherder, Hangman, Recoil and Shockwave the TG Enemy Territory division ventured into competative gaming again alongside with CSS and JK2. Many members have come and gone during this time, the game has changed a lot. New maps, new leagues, new problems. This community has seen it all. Lately there have been wide discussions on whether the game is dieing or not. Not so many professional teams are playing it any longer and people have generally gotten bored of it after years of playing Supply and Goldrush over and over again. I believe that stating that a game is dead is just ridiculous, I've been in smaller gaming communities that have even without any sort of support from the game developer or even the benefit of a masterserver managed to survive for years. The Enemy Territory scene is far from dead, it might be smaller but it's still being enjoyed by thousands of people every day.

Last week, one of the most beloved admins in the ET scene, Tosspot, announced that there will be a Crossfire Challenge 7 held in Enchede, Netherlands. These series of LANS have been much appriciated and all the top teams from Europe have always been there to show off their skills. New for this year is that the format for the tournament will be 5on5. A nice move in my opinion, as teams will now have to pay for one less to go to the LAN and it'll be easier to keep teams together. This has resulted in Clanbase, one of the biggest gaming organisations for ET and many other games have chosen to drop the 6on6 format for their ladders. The sponsor for the LAN will be Intel, which is great news as this might draw even more MGC's attention. Hopefully this will bring the community together again bring more excitement back to the game that still is good, but it's kind of running the same lap over and over again.

We'll see what happens in TG if we are to start over again with 5 fresh players to compete, this will though take time and it's unlikely that any move will be made until early next year. If you are interested in enrolling for the TG Enemy Territory division you are more than welcome to apply. We got the servers, we got the site, we got the friends, now we just need your help!

After some time now playing S2's fantastic DotA revamp, Heroes Of Newerth, TG have taken the step into more serious gaming in the game by joining the Clanbase Heroes Of Newerth AP 3on3 Ladder.

TG HoN division player Cupcake made an utterence about the newly taken decision;
"Hon is a fairly new game and there ain't that many top teams yet. That makes this a good opportunity for TG to be the one of the first teams to fight for this ladder trophy. Me, EhnEn and Xaran have been playing together for a while now and I think we can do good in this ladder. We also have Pedbor, Donkey and a rising star called Magikern that we might recruit later on. So we got alot of good players ready to "pwn" this ladder.

The main team for this 3on3 ladder will consist of Cupcake, Ehnen (C) and Xaran.
Backups will be Pedbor, Donkey and if he agrees to the invitation Magikern.

Cupcake sounds certain that TG will be doing good competitavely in HoN, we have yet to see though how successful the Swedish team will become. Stay tuned for updates on this matter.

The much anticipated Deus Ex 3 that Eidos Montreal is working on will be getting help from Japan.
According to some sources the Japanese RPG giant Square Enix, that earlier this year started a cooperation with Eidos Montreal is going to do some work on Eidos Montreal's next big release; Deus Ex 3.

Stephane D'Astous, the general manager at EM stated; "Deus Ex 3 is going to be the first project which will be a concrete product of joint effort between Square Enix and Eidos,"

According to D'Astous Square Enix will be making the trailers and intro cinematic for the game.

This has led to discussions about Square Enix also perhaps being involved in Eidos Montreal's other upcoming project, Thief IV, after this statement from D'Astous;
"The people in Tokyo are just so glad to work on it; this is the first project for them that's a non-Final Fantasy title— they even want to work on Thief 4 too, so everyone is really excited."

This is quite an interesting turn of events. The PC scene of gaming has seen brighter days, hopefully 2010 will bring us some awesome gaming experiences, even though Deus Ex III might be still under work then.

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Source - www.edge-online.com

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