Love it or hate it: BRINK has arrived in European stores today!

BRINK promises to blur the lines between offline and online gaming by having seamless transitions from single player matches with bots, to co-op with your buddies to fully fletched multi-player combat. The game features objective based game play, free of vehicles and with an added movement dynamic called SMART which will let you vault, slide and wall jump throughout the maps.

The game was developed by Splash Damage, studio behind award winning and whine receiving games Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. The publisher is Bethesda Softworks, known from The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and nowadays a sister company of id Software.

Until now the game has released mixed reviews, the game often getting crushed for a poor single player experience but receiving praise for it's movement system and team based multi-player.

You can get the game on Steam or your local video game shop.

As Play The Gamer prepare for the opening of their national league, they have decided to host three free-to-play competitions at three of the UK's biggest casinos in Plymouth, Brighton and Glasgow.
The events are due to start tomorrow, 15th January, at approximately 15:30. The games being played will be FIFA 11, Need For Speed: Shift and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Competitors will need to show they are adept at all three in order to scoop the big prize.

As the competitions are being held in casinos anyone wanting to compete will require photographic ID. Winners will receive £100 in cash and a trophy for their efforts. The competitions will also be held back to back with the Poker In The Pub regional finals, so anyone interested in poker are welcome to spectate that event also.

For further information about the event you can go to the Play The Gamer homepage.

Related: PlayTheGamer.com

With the end of the year hurtling towards us, Heaven Media's Game of The Year vote is ready to go, where gamers of all denominations will have their say on what was the best game of 2010.
It seems we're feeling festive too... We're giving people who vote a chance to win the top of the range PC components in the Gaming Heaven benchmark system. All you have to do is cast your vote and your name is entered into the draw that will be made sometime shortly after December 31st.

On December 7th, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is released, the third expansion for World of Warcraft, the most popular MMORPG in the world.

World of Warcraft was released six years ago, and can today boast over twelve million subscribers, which makes it a safe bet that, while it may not be a key game covered here on Crossfire, chances are many people reading this post are in fact WoW addicts. Come on, you know who you are!

Heaven Media, our parent company, have today announced the Full Tilt Poker Challenge events taking place in the coming months on Esports Heaven.

The four tournaments will cover Counter-Strike: Source (128 teams), Call of Duty 4 (128 teams), Team Fortress 2 (64 teams) and Quake Live TDM (32 teams).

A huge prize fund of €6,000 EUR has been provided by the sponsor, Full Tilt Poker, which will undoubtedly lead to four fantastic events.

Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4 both receive €2,000 prize funds, and Team Fortress 2 and Quake Live TDM take €1,000 each.

Full Tilt Poker is the world’s fastest growing Online Poker site, offering both real money and free money play. Full Tilt Poker offers a wide variety of online poker games including No Limit Texas Holdem, Pot Limit Texas Holdem, and Fixed Limit Texas Holdem as well as varieties of Omaha, Stud, and Razz.

i3D.net seem to be playing Santa a bit early this year - offering free servers for everyone. Your server will be online until the tenth of November so this deal is perfect if you want to experience the quality of i3D's servers or want to see what managing your own gameserver is all about.

At the tenth of November your server will automatically shut down without a catch. If you do however decide to extend your server you will get a twenty five discount and will not have to pay for any setup costs. At the same time you can order a voice server alongside your game server with a fifty percent discount.

The rules:
- Maximum of 1 server per person
- Only available at the i3D.net London location
- Only valid for the following games: Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield Heroes , Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Counter-Strike: Source, Medal of Honor and Team Fortress 2
- Maximum of 32 slots (public or private)
- Only valid on new servers, this offer cannot be used to extend or discount existing servers (existing clients can order an additional server)
- Registration at i3D.net required, no credit card details or payment needed
- Not valid in combination with other promo deals
- All free servers are branded: The servername needs to start with i3D.net

How to apply (before the fifth of November):
1. Create a client account at i3D.net;
2. Log in and go for the option "order a new gaming package";
3. Among the options in the dropdown menu on the next page, select "Free London Gameserver";
4. Enjoy your server!

With great performances in the ESL Major Series and ClanBase EuroCup, Overload was expected to perform very well at the Antwerp eSports Festival, however lineup issues have wreaked havoc on the team leading to a respectable but lower than expected shared fifth place finish in Antwerp.

After the Antwerp eSports Festival, efforts were made to build a new lineup formed by some of the core players attending the AEF under the Overload banner. Sadly these efforts hit a wall which means Overload Gaming's Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory team is no more.

Overload Gaming has expressed not to be interested in receiving any offers from prospective Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory teams to join Overload.

Overload Gaming.ET's AEF lineup was:
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Crossfired version of the announcement posted on the Overload Gaming website.

In a spectacular match Team Dignitas just became the champions of the Antwerp eSports Festival 2010 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory competition, denying Team Impact the gold.

Team Dignitas
Impact Gaming
Team Rockit
4th. Belgian Fraternity
5/6. Overload Gaming
5/6. Team SPEEDLINK
7/8. Acsi-eSports dNan
7/8. TAG.AEF
9/10. ALMIGHTY
9/10. Zero Empathy

Dignitas came in as favorites and left as champions. Meanwhile we have seen major upsets and surprises, such as the amazing performance by the Belgian Fraternity. We will soon be officially wrapping off the Antwerp eSports Festival with the prize ceremony for Enemy Territory.

The moment that we have all been looking forward has almost arrived. Team Dignitas is facing Impact Gaming in the Grand Finals of the Antwerp eSports Festival 2010 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory tournament.

Dignitas are of course the undisputed and undefeated favorite entering the final, with a host of achievements matched by no-one other. However Impact have shown they are fully capable of causing a major upset. In the lower bracket final match against Rockit for example, who would have expected them to play such an impressive match on Frostbite, after playing an utmost close round on Goldrush and actually getting defeated quite comfortably by their opponents on Supply?

If Impact wants to win the AEF, they will have to dig very deep, facing an excellent side such as Dignitas, and having to beat them not only once but twice.

Rockit just eliminated Belgian Fraternity meaning the rise of the Belgium ends at the fourth position here at the Antwerp eSports Festival. Meanwhile Team Dignitas beat Impact Gaming in the upper bracket, meaning we will see a lower bracket final taking place between Impact Gaming and Rockit. Deja vu? Yeah, the same match took place yesterday, in which Impact took home an impressive yet not undisputed victory against the team sporting the German flag.

Rockit showed fair play in the first round on goldrush when one of Impact's players dropped due to a PC crash. Later Impact where in the zone on supply, not giving away many chances for Rockit to win.

The lower bracket final is going to be played on the grand stage here at the Antwerp eSports Festival, and should be viewable online on the H2kTV stream.

Update: Rockit are probably still confused of what just impacted them - Impact set a time of less than two minutes on frosbite! The Grand Final will be between Impact Gaming and Team Dignitas.
Rockit lose goldrush which means we are going to see a decider after a short break.
2:0 for Rockit thanks to a victory on supply, can Impact restore themselves or are we going to see a Rockit versus Dignitas final?