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Agoners is moving – to Agoners.com
We’ve finally got our domain back again and we’re redesigning things and adding even more content to make the website even better. Please go there now, you can still read all the old content here as well. AGONERS.COM Y
Vs Fighting Report – and an SVB follow up
Fighting game tournament season was in full swing in the UK this year. For the first time in, I think, ever, there was a second big event to go to in one year for fighting game fans. This event was organised by Electronic Dojo in Birmingham in the centre of England – the fantastically named … Read more
Starcraft 2 – MLG Washington D.C. Vods
My Starcraft II obsession is continuing unabated and in my rummaging for more information and my interest in how the SC2 release might finally bring E-Sports into the limelight, I’ve been looking to watch the live events at tournaments such as MLG, Intel Extreme Masters at Gamescon, Blizcon, Korean GSL on GomTV, etc. You can … Read more
European SF2HDR Double Elimination XBox Live Tournament #4
It’s been a few months since the last one, but now the summer “real” tournaments are over, I wanted to get back to running some of these. This tournament is for Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix tournament is only open to European XBox Live players. If you’re in America and are interested in … Read more
I had an amazing time at Super Vs Battle 20-X… BUT…
Yep there’s some big buts here (& I cannot lie). Read on later for why, but first, here’s my story… From Sharrow to Harrow Well it was a fairly late decision for me to go to SVB, and the main thing that swung it was the amount of friends & online guys that I knew … Read more
Why I hate level up systems
As soon as I see people selling pre-levelled up characters and gear, or selling in game gold and the ilk then I know something has gone badly wrong with a game. If a portion of a game is so bad and boring that people are willing to buy their way into not playing it, that’s a red … Read more
The Beautiful Game
This video encapsulates so much of what us “gamers” are trying to fight against. For a report that is supposed to be showing us the flip-side of our perceptions of gaming she still manages to start the report with: “If your parents ever told you that computer games would rot your brains” and ending with: ”A … Read more
More on Matchmaking
I’ve written a lot about this before, yet I believe it still deserves more expansion because of how important I think it is. I would also like to broaden my examples, and note where some new games are getting better at this. However I won’t rest happy in this crusade until all online competitive games … Read more
Are games art?
This little one has been doing the rounds again the last few months, so I thought I’d give my agoners take on it: Art imitates Life. Life is a Game. Games > Art.
Is ‘Splosion Man Challenging or Punishing?
First off, a quick review is in order. ‘Splosion Man is simply amazing. It’s the best single player platform game I’ve ever played, and it’s the best multi-player co-operative platform game I’ve ever played (not that there is much competition there!) at least for 2 players. To me, this is about as good as a non-competitive … Read more
