Get a load of this load of competitions and such. Get your scorecard ready:
- The second annual Quake Easter Egg Hunt
will take place this (Easter) Sunday, offering a teamplay Quake II egg hunt with $100 in
cash prizes.
- Rioport.com is giving away two Force
Feedback Kits, featuring Microsoft's Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel and a Sidewinder
Force Feedback Joystick along with two games with support for Force Feedback: Microsoft's
Motocross Madness and LucasArts' Rogue Squadron.
- This GA-Source Contest offers full iRiS
AntiVirus packages to 30 winners.
- The Mplayer Daikatana Deathmatch page
has info on Phillip 'R-Gauss' Marcus, winner of the first week's competition, the first of
four contestants who will journey to Dallas to battle in a final showdown.
- Thousands
die on screen - at PC party is a BBC article on what's described as the UK's biggest
ever LAN party this past weekend.
- It's never too early, so the World Deathmatch Tournament
homepage is already online. The WDT is a Quake III Arena tourney planned for the first
quarter of 2000 to be held in the Palexpo exhibition center in Geneva, Switzerland (which
can hold up to 1,500 contenders).
- Finally, here's the scoop on this weekend's festivities at The Bay Area Network Gaming Group:
The Bay Area Network Gaming Group is gearing up. only 6 days left 'til the Big
BANGG, a 200 person LAN Fiesta in San Jose, CA. Held at the Santa Clara Convention center
April 2-4th, it's gearing up to be one hell of a party! Nearly 150 sign-ups so far, and
over 200 expected!
Sponsors have lined up left and right, including 3dfx, nVidia, S3, AMD, Logitech, Mad
Catz, and more! There will be many great prizes to be given out, including coupons for a
free TNT2 when they come out retail! S3 will be demonstrating their Savage4 chipset with
Unreal Tournament and the Quake3 Demoloop. AMD will be sending a team with their K6-3
computers (equipped with Voodoo3s and TNT2s) to show off, and maybe give away! Logitech
will be premiering their Wingman Gamers' Mouse, and giving away 6 of their Wingman Formula
Force steering wheels in a Need for Speed III race-off! Sponsors are still lining up, even
in this, the week of the event!