New Painkiller Movie : FOD5

A new Painkiller Frag Movie is in the Making called Faces of Destruction 5, The trailer was made for a few reasons… one of them being that he is accepting demos from people with good frags.. as good as in this trailer or better .. so if u wanna be featured in the full movie contact Doughbo1er at..
Aim: Doughbo1er
Msn: Doughboy1er@hotmail.com
IRC: Doughboy1er [ Enterthegame.net ] # twilight.pictures

Here is the link to the trailer : http://www.pkeuro.com/files/movies/FOD5-Trailer[HQ].rar

sry if it aint clickable 😉 i dunno how :>>>

4K & Intel eec3

Jolt, the company that are running the online side of this competition have released details on their qualifyers. Firstly, 16 players out of the 128 have been seeded, these players are:

Zaccubus, Maniax, Jinjur, KuuLa, Timber, Tek, Appz, Razorb, SLAYER, Mauler, AphexTwin, Turk1sh, Xaku, Scotsman, crasH, and Zaf

They will be put straight through to the double elimination section of the tournament beginning on the 23rd of november. Which will be using a map rotation of: fallen2te, sacred, psycho in that order.


4kings | Jolt

ER… Product Placement

It seems that NBCs prime-time hospital series, ER, recently mentioned PK during one of its episodes : season 11, episode 2. In the past weve seen the staff at the front desk of ER play Doom (back when George Clooney was in it – kid from a drainage pipe during a severe thunderstorm episode). Its good to see theyve moved on since then 🙂

You can view the very short clip here (756k). (you need to be logged in)

*thanks to djuhn for noticing this*

Booh Movie 2 – Loony Park

A new gameplay movie is available showing a second level of the “almost” released expansion pack BooH. Loony Park sees rather malevolent clowns chasing you around trying to blow you apart. A couple of the new weapons are on show with the Flamethrower toasting a set of fat clowns rather well. You also get to see the machine gun and boltgun in action.

The movie weighs in at 16.7MB and can be downloaded here. Enjoy 🙂

Team Dignitas Interview sakh

d`Hamster starts aseries of interviews with top PK players, first up is sakh and it can be viewed here – http://www.team-dignitas.com/news.php?newsid=716

sakh: If I would have to choose a thing that I find important in the game it is to be able to keep up the high speed that the game offers, since I really enjoy this fast paste non defensive games. But it still misses alot of things like PKTV and linux servers, but since this is on the list of CPL requirments, Im sure that they will add this features into the game aswell.

CPL to use Fallen2te + no BOOH

The CPL have just let me know that they will be using default Painkiller for the Winter event and not Battle Out of Hell, due to the delay that was announced yesterday. They also said that there may be some late changes to the version used in the event, as there is a 1.4 update due sometime soon.

Aside from that, they also let it known that they will be using the tweaked version of DM_Fallen2; DM_Fallen2te.

IGN Review Painkiller: BooH

It seems IGN have had the first pleasure of reviewing the much awaited Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell. IGN seem to have enjoyed what they have seen though, which is a big plus for all you Painkiller SinglePlayer fans.

Screenshots:

Carnage! Carnage! Carnage!

“The game is coated in supernatural Gothic madness, but you hardly noticed most of the time because somethings flying at you. When somethings not, like in the majority of the haunted orphanage at the beginning of the game, Battle out of Hell briefly transcends the modest trappings of a shameless gorefest and becomes a little bit creepy. Your flashlight flickers and buzzes and doesnt shine very far. You can hear things rattling and groaning in the distance, and torchlight flickers in a gritty, dank corridor. Then a wave of skeleton zombies teleports from the bottom of a staircase, and its on.”
You can check out the full review here and more screenshots of the game here.

Thanks Gas0linE

*UPDATE*

Over on the DC forums, Adrian has given his reaction to the review.

[PCF]Adrian: “But generally this review is an example of something I call “game journalist mood switch”. Here in Poland I have many friends who work in gaming mags and they all have one thing in common: if the game is to their taste, they easily skip all bad things about it and focus on good.”

You can find that here.

World Tour Stops Announced

The CPL have finally announced the World Tour stops for the The CPL: World Tour.

The CPL World Tour will commence late February 2005 and will travel to 10 (ten) cities across the globe. The tour will offer a US $1,000,000 cash purse, the largest cash prize ever for a computer game tournament. Over 10,000 gamers are expected to participate in the qualifiers, stops and finals.

The 10 stops for 2005 look like so:

Turkey – Feb – Istanbul
Spain – Mar – Barcelona
Japan – Apr – Tokyo (pending final confirmation)
Brazil – May – Sao Paulo
Germany – June – Düsseldorf
USA – July – Dallas, Texas
UK – Aug – Sheffield
Sweden – Sept – Stockholm
China – Oct – Beijing
Chile – Nov – Santiago

The official World Tour website will be launched very soon. You can check the official post where these stops were announced here.

TsN : Feel The Pain #3

TsN just finished up the 3rd broadcast of their program Feel The Pain. Each week the guys get together to discuss the recent happenings in the newly revived community of Painkiller. Tonight they spoke about topics such as the new Painkiller expansion pack released this month; Battle out of Hell, the CPL winter tournament, and as always, the CPL world tour. TsN also anounced that Painkiller black edition will be the game used in the CPL world tour, as stated by Angel Munoz on the CPL forums.

Each week TsN also bring in a player from the community to be interviewed by TsN. This week that player was the American new guy Wreck, who as you may know took 5th place at the CPL summer Painkiller tournament. After the interview Wreck then has to go up against another player from the community, for this job TsN brought in the player known as PFB (Pink Fluffy Bunny). Lets hope this guys name doesnt reflect his playing style!

TsN decided Sacred would be the only map played tonight, best of 3. The scores from the matches were as follows:

Wreck 13 : 11 PFB
Wreck 23 : 0 PFB

Some very different scores in the matches, and even though we were unable to watch it, its always fun to listen to the Painkiller matches shoutcasted by TsN.


Anybody who missed the broadcast will be able to download it from the TsN website after it is uploaded tomorrow.

*Update*

You can find the game demo here: http://www.pkeuro.com/viewdemo.php?demoid=5

CPL Insta-Community

I got bored, so I figured I’d do a little rant about how I’ve seen things change in the last few weeks.

We are all well aware of Painkiller being the World tour game by now (unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last few weeks) and a lot of us have mixed views on it. Anyway, I’m not here to talk about that, I’m here to talk about the effect the CPL announcement has had on the game.

Just a month or 2 ago, Painkiller.euro was pretty much dead in the water. We have active IRC channels for all websites we run, and we noticed a huge drop in people on the Painkiller side of things. After CPL summer, a channel of around 250 people went down to about 15, which as you can see.. is a very very big drop. 🙂

Then came the World Tour announcement, which attracted a lot of gamers world wide to tune into the announcement which was broadcasted by TsN. Everyone was eager, and all hoping it was their game.. however, Painkiller got chosen. I’ve never seen such things in my life.. from the very same hour the game got announced, #Painkiller.euro went from 15 people to 100. It was amazing. The CPL had created a community within a few hours. The game was certainly dead before the announcement, then bam, suddenly everyone starts turning up. The website was getting all kind of hits, and new people signing up, it truely was amazing to see.

Ofcourse, we at Painkiller.euro were overwhelmed with what we had seen, we want nothing more than to see a very big community blossom with the help of us. We run the website for the community, and we run the IRC channel for the community. You all have your say.

We currently have about 830 unique members signed up at our web-site, and we get thousands and thousands of non-signed up people viewing the site every single day. I think it’s a very cool thing that has happened, and I’m glad to be apart of it. Whether people like the idea of Painkiller being the game for the World Tour or not, it’s still very cool to be apart of this community we have now.

We have a whole year to go through yet, and it’s still growing each day. I’m sure by the middle of 2005, we will have nearly double of what we have now, if not triple. Also, with BooH due out tomorrow, I’m sure that will bring quite a lot of new folk, as does every new release.

Thanks for your time, and help us keep the community growing. 😀

-The guys at pkeuro.

BBC Painkiller Article

Noticed over at the BBC website, there is a nice little article about the upcoming Painkiller BLOODLINE tournament which will be held on the 3rd-5th of December to find 2 top Painkiller players from the United Kingdom who will win a year long pro-gaming contract from the ever-famous 4 KINGS clan.

The article describes the event a little and more importantly, lets non-gaming folk know about the event. Its good to see well-known media like BBC getting more involved with the gaming scene, especially the Painkiller scene. You can check the full article out here.

Painkiller: BooH GOLD!

Its finally happened, Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell has gone GOLD. Heres the press release:

Paris, France – November 8, 2004 – DreamCatcher Games today announced Painkiller: Battle Out Of Hell has reached gold status. The Expansion Pack for the award-winning Windows® FPS, Painkiller, will begin shipping to North American retailers on November 11th and will begin releasing across Europe on November 24th.

Picking up where the games story left off, Painkiller: Battle Out Of Hell offers multiple features to extend enjoyment of this spectacular shooter. Using code from the 1.5 update, the Expansion Pack includes an additional single-player chapter with 10 levels, as well as new multiplayer modes, maps and models. It will also offer an amplified arsenal of un-deadly weapons, bigger and badder bosses and the map editor Software Development Kit.

“Painkiller fans are going to be very happy with Battle Out Of Hell,” said Richard Wah Kan, DreamCatchers CEO and President. “The levels are bigger, the gameplay is more intense, and if you can believe it, the monsters are even more terrifying.”

A shooter in its purest form, Painkiller boasts truly inspired graphics and some of the most intimidating level bosses ever seen. Utilizing the Havok 2.0 physics engine, the game continues to achieve new heights of physics-based game play while the latest version of the “PAIN Engine” cranks out an unbelievably high polygon count, and exciting new features like heat and haze distortion, light blooms, spectacular pixel mapping, new shader effects, tweaks for the latest video cards and an improved networking core.

Wooooooooooo!! Let the games begin II. 🙂

Painkiller.euro Invite Finishes

The Painkiller.euro 16 player invitational tournament is now over. We have seen some brilliant games over the past 2 days, and some very memorable shots. The final just got played, which saw Stermy take on world #1 Painkiller player Vo0. Vo0 got off to a good start on DM_fallen2te, but as usual you cant keep Stermy down. He clawed his way back, and ended up taking the map 14:8. Then came Vo0s choice of map DM_Psycho, which for a few minutes looked like Stermy had run away and won the game.. but no.. Vo0 isnt #1 for nothing. He ended up taking the map marginally; 13:8. Last, but not least came DM_Sacred.. the tie breaker map. Vo0 was the favourite going into this map, as he pretty much knows it better than he knows his own home.. this proved to be true, as Vo0 took the map very very comfortably – 29:9.

I would like to thank everyone that participated, its been great fun. I would like to thank all admins that helped out, and ukgamer for providing us servers to play on. We couldnt of done it without you. 🙂

Finally, to all that keep asking.. and I know your eager.. demos will be uploaded sometime Monday, when I have them all, and can evaluate which ones to release. There is also a movie of the event already in production, thanks to our spanish friend cu3rv0. That should be released some time next weekend. Stay tuned.

Painkiller.euro Invite Tourney

Wow. What can I say? Tonight has been a blast, and I would like to send a HUGE thank you to everyone that participated. It really has been a blast.

We started off with some server probs, but got around them fairly quickly thanks to the much appreciated help and dedication from ukgamer. Ive seen some of the greatest shots to date just from these few games, there was air stakes, air rockets and everything. Top class performance from all players.

The praise of the night though must go to Ztrider, who went into a match against the worlds #1 Painkiller player; Vo0. The first map was DM_Sacred where Vo0 came from behind to win 18:13 & then onto DM_Fallen2te, where Vo0 once again came from behind to win 11:10. Ztrider is certainly one to watch.

Tomorrow, we will see the semi-finals and the final played.. these will be

Stermy vs. SteLam & Vo0 vs. Sakh

These will be great games for sure.

You can check out the latest brackets here with the fancy version of the bracket here.

Thanks to all admins that helped out, and SLAYER for providing a server for a match or 2. GGs guys.

**UPDATE**

Stermy [22:4] SteLam – DM_Fallen2te
Stermy [18:9] SteLam – DM_Psycho

Intel Extreme Edition Challenge

As you would of seen some posts below, 4K and Intel have joined forces to offer one lucky person the chance to win a 1 year contract as a pro-gamer. Heres the offical press release:

INTEL® SEARCHES FOR NEW BLOOD TO JOIN KINGS OF eSPORTS

‘Intel Pentium® 4 Processor Extreme Edition Challenge III: Bloodline’: The gaming event to find fresh blood for Intel sponsored team ‘4Kings’


Swindon, UK – 5th November 2004. Intel Corporation announced today a gaming tournament that will take place on the 3rd-5th December in London. In the Bloodline tournament, the UKs top players will battle it out in order to find two new players to join the ranks of the world championship winning team: the 4Kings sponsored by Intel.

The players will participate in worldwide competitions in 2005 as part of the $1,000,000 CPL* World Tour and the game of choice will be Dreamcatchers* “Painkiller”*. The World Tour is the worlds most ambitious gaming competition, with the aim to find the best gamer and offer them the opportunity to compete against the best of the best. “We are very much looking forward to working alongside Intel on this event to prepare the UK for the CPL World Tour.” Said Jaffer Mir the UK CPL representative.

In order to qualify for the event, prospective gamers must take part this month in an online tournament run by Jolt Online Gaming, Europe’s largest independent online gaming specialist.

“It’s great to be working with Intel on this first leg of what’s sure to be a rip roaring event,” said Jolt CEO Dominic Silk, “With the expertise present and the UK’s most successful gaming clan involved, you can count on ‘Bloodline’ being the unmissable online gaming tournament of 2004.”

The eight top players will then fight it out in December with professional sportscasters describing the action and an Internet downloadable movie of the event will be made available on the event website in December 2004.

The event will also feature a ‘Bring Your Own Computer’ LAN-Party for up to 400 players and facilities for spectators.

Gamers interested in becoming members of the 4Kings clan or who want to take part in the LAN-Party should sign up here: www.bloodline.jolt.co.uk


Remember, the 4K tournament is open to UK residents only. Its a very exciting opportunity for someone to get in there, and become what they probably dream of. Good luck.

cha0ticz & Painkiller

Now that Painkiller is the game to be used for the ever famous The CPL: World Tour, lots of big named pro-gamers have come into the scene. One in particular is cha0ticz, who is known for his Quake 3 skills in 1v1. Recently, SK got the chance to put 1 or 2 questions to him.. here’s what he had to say:

What are you doing to prepare for the CPL World Tour and do you plan to go to all of the stops?

I’m putting as many hours as I can in online practice at the moment. This has been on average 4-5 hours each day for the past 4 weeks. I am getting plans together to get a decent amount of lan practice in just before the Winter CPL event as well. Yes, I do plan to attend all World Tour stops.

You can check the full news post and other questions here.

(source: SK Gaming)