National Championship Gaming, GameTaste, and Fox and Hound of Winston Salem NC are having 2v2 MW3 Tournaments every Tuesday Night at 8pm. It is free to enter and the winning team gets a $50 gift card, two NCG trophies, and they qualify for the “Championship of Champions” tournament. Video results are posted every week at www.NCGpro.com/blog . GameTaste would like to thank the management of Fox and Hound for supporting the gaming community….and for making 2v2 tournys kick ass!
Epic is Gear-ing up for the game’s launch. The original Gears of War trilogy is finally finished. Series design director Cliff Bleszinski today posted an update to his Twitter account confirming that Gears of War 3 has gone gold in advance of its September 20 launch date. The news was accompanied by a picture of a cake to mark the occasion. The cake, designed to look like the Gears of War 3-branded Xbox 360 hardware, contained a congratulatory message in icing celebrating the game’s completion. Originally pegged to debut in April, Gears of War 3 begins with the last human city having been obliterated and series hero Marcus Fenix trying to protect the remaining humans from the Locust horde as well as from the newer, deadlier foe, the mutating Lambent. Gears of War 3 will be available in three versions this September: standard ($60), Limited ($80), and Epic ($150). The centerpiece of this year’s $150 Gears of War 3 Epic Edition will be a limited-run Marcus Fenix statue. For more on Gears of War 3, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage.
Battlefield 3 has picked up the ‘Best of Gamescom’ award in Cologne as voted for by a panel of industry professionals and members of the media.
It leads a group of seven other picks of the trade show including PlayStation Vita as Best Hardware and FIFA 12 as Best Console Game.
The full list is as follows:
Best of Gamescom: Battlefield 3
Best Hardware or Hardware Accessories: PlayStation Vita
Best Console Game: FIFA 12
Best Mobile Game: Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Best Online Game: Star Wars: The Old Republic
Best PC Game: Diablo III
Best Browser Game: The Sims Social
Best Family Game: Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster
The 5th annual GameTaste Bash (www.3daybash.com) is expected to draw more than 300 gamers and fans to this years Tournament Gaming Party in North Carolina. In past years the Bash was a low key gaming party at the owners residence. This year the party has been moved to Lake Myers Resort in Mocksville, NC and has gone from a one night fling to a 3 day blast. To back GameTaste and National Championship Gaming, big time sponsors have signed up to insure its success. The sponsors include Best Buy, Hooters, Walmart, and Aarons Rentals. While the Bash will be set up with 8 big screens and 8 Xbox 360′s for the four gaming tournaments, the main draw could be all the other activities provided at no additional cost (entry is only $25 for all 3 days!..wtf). Included activities and contests are Mini Golf, paddle boats, bumper boats, fishing, swimming (3 pools), water sliding (2 400′ water slides), a cosplay costume contest, a chili eating contest, a dance (top 40 DJ), and plenty more. National Championship Gaming is reportedly giving away some big prizes and a boat load of trophies at the end of the event to boot. Rumors have also circulated that developers from Epic Games will also be there as well as several Hooters girls. That being said, we are getting a tent and will be there as well. Party on, dude. And dudets.
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This year the GameTaste Bash will be September 16th, 17th, and 18th at Lake Myers Resort in Mocksville North Carolina. Tickets are $25 per person or $75 for a family of four. Bring your tent and sleeping bag, and most of all, bring your game!
Everything listed below is included with your entry:
All meals (Burgers, hotdogs, chicken, chili, baked beans, chips, drinks, etc.)
Access to showers and restrooms
Swimmimg (2 huge pools and a wading pool)
Bumper Boats
Paddle Boats
Fishing
Water Slides (2x 400′ slides)
Billiards & gameroom
Canoes
Mini Golf
Gaming Tournaments
Chili Eating Contest
Arm-In-Ice Contest
Our schedule is as follows (subject to change):
Friday4pm Welcome!4pm Black Ops Tournament Qualifying Begins6pm Hooters Hot Wings are served!7pm GameTaste Dinner Cookout9pm NCG Call of Duty Black Ops Tournament Finals12am Big Reds Hot Ass Chili Eating Contest2am Night Night – Quiet Time
Saturday9am GameTaste Continental Breakfast9am Gears of War Tournament Qualifying Begins10am Fugamer Paddleboat Race12pm GameTaste Lunch Cookout1-5pm Free Time! Enjoy the Resort!5pm Hooters Hot Wings are served!6pm GameTaste Dinner Cookout7pm NCG Gears of War Tournament Finals8-11pm Dance & DJ / Cosplay Costume Contest10pm Mortal Kombat Challenge (8′x16′ Big Screen)12am ClanMatcher Arm-in-ice contest
Sunday10am GameTaste Continental Breakfast10am MW2 Tournament Qualifying Begins11am Flag Football1pm GameTaste Lunch Cookout2pm Clean Up!2pm Modern Warfare 2 Tournament Finals3pm Awards Ceremony4pm C U Next Year!
Claim battlefield superiority this Autumn! The Battlefield 3™ Limited Edition: Physical Warfare Pack is now available for pre-order exclusively at GAME and gamestation in the UK. Players can storm the battlefield armed with powerful weapons and items only available in the Physical Warfare Packincluding the Type 88 light machine gun with bipod for superior firepower and total zone control, the SKS sniper rifle flash suppressor that provides increased stealth abilities for Recon soldiers, and the lethal armor-piercing flechette ammo for the DAO-12 semi-automatic shotgun that is sure to tear through anything in its path. Also included is day one access to the highly versatile DAO-12 semi-automatic shotgun itself.
In addition to the launch day exclusive weapons, the Physical Warfare Packalso includes the Battlefield 3™ Back to Karkand digital expansion pack. Players can wage all-out war on four of the most celebrated maps fromBattlefield 2, including Strike at Karkand, Gulf of Oman and the Sharqi Peninsula, all stunningly re-created using the power of Frostbite™ 2. DICE’s state of the art game engine serves as the power center for Battlefield 3 to deliver superior performance in character animation, visual rendering, audio and physical destruction unlike anything ever seen before.
All of this amazing content is available at no extra charge to gamers who pre-order the Battlefield 3 Limited Edition: Physical Warfare Pack exclusively atwww.game.co.uk and www.gamestation.co.uk.
Battlefield 3 will be available for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the PC. For more information on Battlefield 3, please visitwww.battlefield.com, and for the latest news on Battlefield please visithttp://www.facebook.com/battlefield or follow us on Twitter atwww.twitter.com/battlefield.
While at PAX East 2011, we caught up with Chris Wynn, the lead producer for Gears of War 3. And Chris answered every question we asked! Enjoy Gears fans!!!
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How many publications will name, or have named Gears of War 3 game of the show? Or Battlefield 3? Or Star Wars The Old Republic? Or whoever? We are giving the prize to two wallet friendly games that totally kick ass. For the PC: FireFall, a FPS that will be FREE to play. Yep…FREE. Download, play, kick ass, have fun, and maybe download some cool assessories for cash to help support the game. FireFall to us is Gears + Halo + Transformers = FireFall. It really looks great for a game that still has several months for developement and polish. Watch the Video below for complete details on what this game will do.
Our next Game of the Show is Section 8 Prejudice. Another FPS coming out on the console arcades for just $15. This game is easily worth $60, but the price point is perfect to get a huge install base. Clans will LOVE this game. It is made for gaming clans from scratch. It even has dedicated servers. We will post a video of Section 8 Prejudice soon.
Chuck Rock interviewed ” The Sess ” at PAX East this year to talk about his career and upcoming games.
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Today was the last day of the 2nd annual PAX East, an it hurt me to walk away. As I was walking out, I turned around to say goodbye, as I would to a friend or family member. But there was no one to say goodbye to. But was there? Yes there was. PAX East itself has its very own spirit. It’s not one person, it’s a collective, so to say. PAX East is a monster of a collective to say the least, but a gentle giant monster that loves me…and you. What an experience. I haven’t been this tired and sore in many years, but the adrenaline generated from this PAX monster was more than enough to make me forget about all the fatigue and muscle pains. In fact, I want to visit the monster again tomorrow, but it will be hibernating until later this year where it will emerge on the west coast. And I have to go back to work editing all the great interviews we did with Adam Sesler, Major Nelson, and many many more. And that was what PAX East was all about for National Championship Gaming, bringing you the latest and greatest gaming information that is out there. And we worked our collective asses off, and it was worth every penny and ache. Stay tuned, plenty more to come.
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