As the 2004 year has passed, GGL have decided it’s time for the Player of 2004 awards to take place. The awards are going to pick the person from each game who has been most successful and well-known through-out 2004, as well as achievements. The PK nominees are as follows:

1) Sander Kaasjager aka. Vo0 (fnatic, )
2) Stephan Lammert aka SteLam (SK, )
3) Jonathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty ()
4) Alessandro Avallone aka Stermy (play.it, )
5) Benjamin Bohrmann aka zyz (SK, )

As you can see, there is some big big names in that list. It’s going to be a tough one to call. If vo0 doesn’t win it though, I will be very surprised. 🙂

The awards show, which will be hosted by Radio ITG’s djWHEAT will take place January 28th. Stay tuned.

Lukin has posted on the CPL Forums with a new duel map he has been working on. The map is in early stages of development with the geometry, some basic textures and item placements all in place. From my first bounce around the map, its looks fairly tight with plenty of room for good jumping/movement skills to dominate.

The map weighs in at 7MB and can be downloaded HERE. We will have it on our pkeuro servers shortly for those of you with v1.35 to try out. Note that Lukin does recommend playing the map in BooH due to the slime. Let us know your thoughts in the comments 🙂

Hi there,

I’ve created a Painkiller Mapshot Pack for Qtracker. It includes all standard and BOOH Multiplayer maps. It also features multi-screenshots for each map.

Enjoy 😉

You can download it here:
http://www.daikatananews.net/downloads/pk_mapshotpack.zip

Quite a funny review this one with comments on the use of Havoc being my favourite bit of any BooH review yet. Catch the review HERE.

This is one of the greatest uses of the Havok engine I have seen yet: long after they are dead the silicon jiggles. The huge bags of flesh on their chest seem to have a life of their own

Good stuff 🙂

Carmac has posted an interesting interview with Daler on GGL.com over the weekend. The interview discusses Dalers views on his playing style, plus his thoughts on going “pro”. It’s a good read and well worth your time. Find the full interview HERE.

Aren’t you concerned that a game you dislike is going to be picked up? A bad version of UT for instance.

I personally will play any game, whether it be similar to Quake 3 or even UT. I am years behind the best in various respected games, but if it’s a game similar to that of UT, I would not be that disappointed. I personally had many things I dislike about even the current game, PainKiller, to the point where it is quite frustrating. However, right now I have overcome those problems to where I enjoy playing it at times. I guess if per say, even UT was the next big game that everyone would be playing, I would be disappointed and discouraged beforehand… but with time and practice, I would find to enjoy it. Although, UT does suck still to me :).