When a gamer is first introduced to the online gaming community they quickly hear about the concept of clans. A clan is a group of gamers who form a team to take part in online competitions and leagues. In recent years clans have moved away from being large groups of people to becoming small single team clans who play in a single competition.
As a result the difference between a clan and a team has become blurred. This League is a system designed to give a gamer the ability to manage their clans and hopefully to create a clear distinction between the concept of a clan and a team. To do this the system allows the management of an overall clan, and within the clan the clan members can become members of multiple teams.
This allows a clan to be a large group of members who can create multiple teams of different skill levels for different games. Another goal of this functionality is to encourage the development of highly skilled teams. Being able to form a large group of gamers increases the chance of attracting more skilled players and putting them into a single team. The team you play in is no longer a clan made up of the first 5 friends you have convinced to join you, but an organised entity of people with the same skill level
The merging of the 3FL and Gamespace forum users has now been
completed. If you currently have an active user on the Gamespace forums, you’ll
now be able to login and use the same details on the 3FL forums. We’ve migrated
over basic profile information including join dates and post counts, as part of
this process we have turned off forum signups and now post creation on the
Gamespace forums.
If there was a duplicate username found during the migration
process, the following actions were performed:
If the duplicate username and email address matched, the two profiles
were merged with the post counts being added together
If the duplicate username and email address did not match, a “1” was
appended to the username
If you find that your original username doesn’t appear to
work, try appending a “1” to your username. If your username has ended up with
a “1” on it and would like to change it, simply send a message to “Frozen Hell”
once logged into the 3FL forums with details and it’ll be fixed up. If you
can’t log into the 3FL forums at all or experience other issues, please drop an
email to support@3fl.net.au and we’ll
investigate what went wrong.
Exciting news, we’ll be soon
merging the resources of the current 3FL and Gamespace gaming networks to make
one even bigger, mega awesome gaming network. This will mean that all of the
cool and nifty things that iiNet and Westnet customers get as free quota from
the 3FL Gaming Network will soon be making their way into the hands of Netspace
customers across Australia.
What does this mean for
Gamespace users?
Over the coming weeks all of the
current Gamespace gaming servers that you know and love will be re-named 3FL.
We currently have a bunch of brand spanking new servers on order that we will be
migrating all of your favourite Gamespace servers onto to provide higher
performance and even some new games that 3FL gamers currently enjoy playing,
with all current Gamespace volunteer admins being invited to continue their
excellent work as part of 3FL.
But it doesn’t just stop there,
all of the current 3FL gaming servers and other resources (including Steam!)
will be unmetered for existing Netspace customers, so you’ll get access to all
of the current 3FL gaming servers in Adelaide, Sydney and Perth without it
burning your quota! We will also be migrating over all of the active forum
accounts from the current Gamespace forums into the 3FL forums so that you don’t
have to go through the hassle of signing up to yet another forum, with your
forum profile data and all important post counts also being kept
intact.
What does this mean for 3FL
users?
Current 3FL users will now have
access to a bunch more gaming servers that will be Freezone’d for iiNet and
Westnet customers, giving you even more servers to access with low pings and
high performance. The addition of the current Gamespace servers to 3FL will
also give you access to some established game communities that 3FL currently
doesn’t have, including CoD4, BF2, AoC, PVKII and others.
So exciting times ahead, stay
tuned as we provide further updates as we progress through the migration
process!
Unfortunately it seems that Valve has canned the hopes of Linux users worldwide by saying that there is no Linux version of Steam in development. This comes on the back of the Mac gamers getting a Steam client for their OS of choice. The denial occurred in an interview with Doug Lombardi and was the final question, so it looks like that Linux fans will either need to keep using Wine or another OS to fill in their gaming needs for the time being.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 was recently shown at Gamescon, but now it has been announced that there will be a demo of the game coming out before the full game is released. The demo would involves Starkiller fighting his way out of the Kamino cloning facility, using Force skills like pushes and the new mind trick. The game comes out on the 26th of October.
It seems that yet another Aussie based game developer is in dire straits. Krome will close its studio in Adelaide studio if things do not pick up and lay off some staff, leaving studios in Melbourne and Brisbane to keep operating in this tough time. This follows recent layoffs of staff in April and last November. The studio is behind such games like for Viva Pinata: Party Animals, Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes, and Scene It? Game Room and Box Office Smash.
Will studios survive this tought time or will more close?
The first DLC was “The Passing” which came out for Left 4 Dead 2, but now Valve is releasing a companion DLC for both games in the series. It will show gamers what happened before “The Passing” occurred and let people choose the person who will give up their life for the group. Left 4 Dead 2 owners will also get the No Mercy campaign from the original game, which will bring back some nostalgia. There is no more information yet, but the DLC should be free, well except for the Xbox 360 owners.
Do you like DLC releases? Will this bring you back to Left 4 Dead?
The rumour wheel has now set its sights on Sony’s PSP and in particular, the PSP 2. Supposedly during Gamescon this week, Sony has given a private demonstration to some lucky publishers a prototype for the successor of the PSP Go, including demonstrations of some games. Some of the publishers have said that it has a rich and detailed screen and has touch controls on the back. Sony also has reportedly settled on making games based on Flash media like the PSP Go. Sony has yet to confirm or deny the rumours, but it would be good to keep an eye out for it.
Would you be interested in such a handheld console?
