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Xin Gaming announces COD4 roster then wins EtherSnap

Aseenus — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:38:04 +0000

After weeks of scouting Xin Gaming’s administration has hand picked the finest fraggers for it’s Oceanic Call of Duty 4 team. We are excited to announce our lineup of highly talented players:

- Roster -

- Jacob “Kitfox” Punton (c)
- Jamie “Entice” Kretschmer
- Damien “The Omen” Meddings
- Justin “Ultimate Sacrifice” Tate
- Andrew “eDGe” McLaren
- Simon “Riskkk” Nolan

After 4 days the team still stands undefeated. To add the cherry on top they have also just won the EtherSnap’s COD4 Tournament in Melbourne proving that the possibilities are truly endless.

Kitfox writes on EtherSnap:

The BYOPC event was held at the Sandown Racecourse, well known for being the host of the V8 Supercars Championship. Omen and Ultimate were the first ones to arrive at the venue at 9:30am for a 10pm start. Kitfox and Edge were next to arrive within 10 seconds of each other at 10 to 10 and Riskkk had failed to tell us that his car was broken. So Omen had to drive back to the northern suburbs and pick him up. Luckily, The Counter Strike:Source competition was the first tournament to be held so that left Xin plenty of time to sort their setups out. So the CS:S came and went and it was time for CoD 4, which ended up as Xin vs Soldiers of Freedom in a best of 3 map Grand Final. SoF won the coin toss and chose Strike as their 1st map, Xin responded by choosing Defense and rolled out convincingly taking the first half 12-0. Half time came and SoF found a second wind, taking the next 3 rounds on defense. However Xin were too strong and took the next round for a 13-3 victory on the first map. Omen played a great game topping the scoreboard for Xin Gaming with 23 frags.

It was then time for Xin to choose a map and after Kit’s arm was twisted by Omen we chose Backlot. It proved to be a good choice, however SoF chose defense and pounded Xin with grenades at the start of each round. The first half ended with Xin on top at 8-4, and it was time to dish out some grenades of our own. Xin Gaming held strong and locked down the bombsites extremely well taking the map and the Championship 13-6. Kitfox enjoyed some new RAM while Omen scored a Kinzu mouse. Other prizes won included a PurePwnage Mousepad each as well as PurePwnage “LEET Speakers” and the complete Season1 and Soundtrack of PurePwnage.

Overall it was a good event for the first time it was held and Xin look forward to attending more EtherSnap events in the future.

If you would like to bump into the team be sure to head down to Cydus where they will be holding a lot of their practice nights.

Egames 2009

Aseenus — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:49:01 +0000

So the time had come again for eGames Expo, after a long night of gaming and going to bed at 6am we somehow managed to stumble out of bed 2 hours later to catch the train to the city. After 45 mins of sleeping on the train and almost missing Parliament Station, we finally arrived. The weather was absolutely stunning, the ladies in the city wearing almost nothing was even more stunning and woke me up pretty fast. First we took a look around the gardens of the Royal Exhibition Center then heading in to take a look around before the crowds arrived. Everyone was still setting up and we got a chance to try out a few games. We went for a quick smoke outside only to see a massive queue outside the front door’s. After taking a few snap shots with some people dressed in layers of costume in 40 degree heat we head back in. Soon after we head back in the doors opened up to the public.

The first few hours we took a look around every booth to see what this year had in store for us and I’ll be honest, I shouldn’t have got up so early, eGames 2009 was not worth losing sleep over. Apart from Ubisoft there was no proper booths, every single PC was either playing Counter Strike 1.6 or Source, Maybe they should rename the expo to ‘CS Expo’. Yes we all love CS however they went a little overboard with it. The technology section was almost empty, there was meant to be a guest speaker come in and speak about something, the reason I say something is because no guest speaker actually spoke and explained what that ‘something’ was, they announced him for about half an hour, Warboy and myself were actually curious as to what this guy was going to speak about so we sat down only to realize after the half hour that we were the only ones sitting in the seats waiting for this guy.

The place was pretty empty, it being on the same day as the spring races might have something to do with it but all in all I was not happy with the turn out. Another major part I disliked about eGames 2009 was that they focused a little too much on selling games and gaming accessories as apposed to focusing on showing off games and having more tournaments. Australian gaming expos just don’t compare to the ones overseas. Well listen to me rambling on all negatively it wasn’t as bad as I make it seem, there were some parts of it that I liked. There were a few new games made by Australian game studio’s/university student’s that were very interesting, note how I said interesting not good. It’s actually a real shame that Australian has yet to produce a half decent game. All in all it was not a total waste of time, maybe next year I wont wake up so early for it.