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The winners of the June stats competition are:
First place this month: Telrse - 30 points
Second place this month: Dark Prince - 20 points
Third place this month: GizmoDuck - 10 points
and first place overall: Telrse - 25 points
Well done guys, especially Telrse (previously Overlord Griffin) who wins a total of 55 points.
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The world record for the largest number of people dressed as Smurfs was smashed on Monday night - at Oceana on the Kingsway.
Doesn't it make you so proud to come from Swansea? 
Castleblayney in County Monaghan, Ireland, previously held the record: 1,253 people dressed as Smurfs in the high street last year. Swansea has doubled the record!
See The Telegraph's coverage.
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The winners of the May stats competition are:
First place this month: GizmoDuck - 30 points
Second place this month: Overlord Griffin - 20 points
Third place this month: Kipper - 10 points
and first place overall: Overlord Griffin - 25 points
Well done guys, especially Overlord Griffin again, who takes a total of 45 points.
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We've just added two new major releases and 10 minor games to all our gaming PCs. If you're reading this in Crossfire, click the icon to load the game.
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Demigod is best described as a RPG/RTS hybrid, significantly influenced by the Warcraft III custom map Defense of the Ancients. The game's title refers to the powerful player characters that battle for supremacy over various zones. The game is multiplayer-oriented and competitive in nature.
The all father has vanished, creating an opening in the pantheon. To fill the void, Demigods from across from the mortal world must wage war against one another in a bid to ascend to true godhood. Demigod is a real-time, tactical strategy game that includes extensive role-playing elements. Choose from several Demigods, each poised for battle with their own unique capabilities and awe-inspiring powers. Vanquish other would-be gods as you gain levels, increase in power, unlock the power of mystic artifacts and slowly battle your way closer to joining the Pantheon.
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Killing Floor is a Co-op Survival Horror FPS taking place in the devastated cities and countryside of Britain, after a series of cloning experiments for the military goes horribly wrong. You and your friends are members of the military, dropped into these locations with a simple mission: survive long enough to cleanse the area of the failed experiments. The only problem is, these “experiments” aren’t waiting to be taken out – they’re coming for YOU!
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Alpha Prime is a 10-mission FPS. The State Business Federation has discovered an asteroid dubbed Alpha Prime with rich deposits of hubbardium, which is used as fuel in interstellar ships. During the mining operations, the miners began to go mad due to exposure to hubbardium. The State Business Federation decides that mining the hubbardium is too dangerous, and seal off the asteroid. Unauthorized miners arrive hoping to use the hubbardium to make drugs. They soon find themselves in trouble and ask Arnold, the protagonist, to help them.
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Penguins Arena: Sedna's World. Now it's your turn to join the snowball battles and drive the other tribes into the sea. Penguins Arena is a thrilling and innovative First Penguin Shooter with very short rounds and where the magic of reincarnation, combined with the supernatural ability to return to the game as a ghost, ensures that your character has every chance to change your tribe's fate.
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Four top-down-viewed shooters. With the completion of the third title in the RIP series, the RIP games have become an instant classic in the arcade-shooter genre. Larva Mortus is a fast-paced action horror game.
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R.I.P. 2: Strike Back
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R.I.P. 3: The Last Hero
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Space Trader: Merchant Marine - start as a rookie trader and earn your way to Master Trader using shrewd trades, back alley deals, bribes, a well placed bullet and more. Plus three new puzzle games: Cogs, Obulis and a new Gumboy game.
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Gumboy Tournament
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Cogs
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Obulis
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As we mentioned last month, we've made a change to the way the Pwnage Points are allocated to stats winners at the end of each month. This way, every month the points will be won by those who have done the best that month, rather than potentially being won by long-time top players who haven't needed to keep playing to stay ahead.
The player holding overall first place wins 25 points. The players who have achieved the most skill points for just that month take some Pwnage Points as follows:
• First place for the month wins 30 Pwnage Points
• Second place for the month wins 20 Pwnage Points
• Third place for the month wins 10 Pwnage Points
The winners of the April stats competition are:
First place this month: Overlord Griffin - 30 points
Second place this month: Vasquez109 - 20 points
Third place this month: The Man - 10 points
and first place overall: Overlord Griffin - 25 points
Well done to all, especially Overlord Griffin, who takes a total of 55 points.
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A few more new games just added this week: Assassin's Creed plus two mini-games, Bullet Candy and Raycatcher. We've also belatedly added the last expansion pack, Secret Weapons of World War 2, to Battlefield 1942.
Assassin's Creed is an action-adventure. The primary goal is to carry out a series of assassinations ordered by Al Mualim, the leader of the Assassins.
Bullet Candy is a fast-paced action-packed arena shooter. There are a variety of combo systems and many secret techniques that you can employ to get the best score and weapon upgrades possible. Viewed from a top-down perspective, Bullet Candy allows for a true 360° shoot-em-up experience. With all of your enemies in view at all times it's easy to see and, more importantly, shoot them into tiny little pieces.
Raycatcher is a sorting puzzle game, with beams of light falling from all directions with you rotating your device in the centre so the correct colour bulb ends up with the correct beam.
If you're reading this inside Crossfire, just click one of the icons below to load the game!
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Bullet Candy
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| We have today added another game to the Player Stats - Day of Defeat: Source. We're now running a DOD:S dedicated LAN Stats server alongside the others (Counter-Strike Source standard and Deathmatch, Call of Duty 4 and 5). Whenever you play on any of those servers, your progress is recorded and shown on the stats section of the website, and goes towards your chance of winning prizes at the end of every month.
If you're reading this from inside Crossfire, simply click the icon on the right to launch the game and automatically connect to the Stats Server. |
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Day of Defeat: Source
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Some minor updates:
• The Computers page now includes an up-to-the-minute display of who's here and what games they're running. You can easily check if someone's here so you'll know to come down here and pwn them. (If you don't want your name to show on the site when you're here, just let us know and we'll set your member record to "invisible" login.)
• The ice-cream freezer is back  Magnums, Cornettos, Calippos, Soleros and the rest, all on sale to keep you cool while gaming.
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We have today installed the Crazy Machines series of puzzle games.
Build imaginative machines that turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and more to build a unique contraption. Solve more than 200 challenging puzzles and experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in a virtual lab. The game uses a physics engine to simulate various in-game variables such as air pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects.
If you're reading this inside Crossfire, just click one of the icons below to load the game!
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Crazy Machines
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Crazy Machines 1.5
Inventors' Training Camp
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Crazy Machines 1.5
New From The Lab
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Crazy Machines 2
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We've also put up a Fun Maps server for Counter-Strike Source, which records your stats exactly the same as the Official Maps server. Let us know what maps you want. So far there are glass wall/floor maps, aim maps, Simpsons and Mario maps, pool party maps, a Rats map and more.
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We are holding our next all-nighter on Saturday 18th April, starting at 9:30pm and running through to 9:30am on the Sunday morning. As usual it's £15 for the 12 hours, but we're running the 24-hour offer again: only £25 if you want to do the all-nighter plus all day either day, before or after.
Almost half the places are filled already, so you'll need to get your name down quickly.
Please also note that we're open as usual over Easter, 10am-10pm every day.
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The winners of the March stats competition are:
First place: Overlord Griffin - 30 points
Second place: The Man - 20 points
Third place: Mat1 - 10 points
and first place this month by a long way, with 3 times as many points as Drayvarco in second place: Overlord Griffin - 25 points
Well done to Overlord Griffin, who takes a total of 55 points.
Following general feedback, from next month the points setup will be swapped around. We will be awarding 25 points to the player in overall first place, and 30/20/10 points to the players in first/second/third place for the month. This way, every month the Pwnage Points will be won by those who have done the best that month, rather than potentially being won by long-time top players who haven't needed to play to stay ahead.
April 2009 Members' Newsletter - e-mailed to all members.
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FIVE NEW GAMES are available for play now all our gaming PCs! The biggest one: Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, the first version of the popular Burnout console game series to be made available on PC.
Equipped with either a high powered car or motorbike you can leap from railway to motorway to walkway and back again... for extra style. What makes it even more enjoyable is when it all goes wrong. The camera cuts to close up and super slow motion to watch your car crumple in amazing detail. The world is littered with events (every junction), including straight races, stunt runs and the ubiquitous "road rage". During a race you are encouraged to be aggressive towards your fellow racer (road rage demands it) and when you knock them into a wall the camera cuts away to let you see it in all its slow motion glory. These events are required to advance, but you can do them when and where you like. Explore the local area first to familiarize yourself with local shortcuts and routes, then choose what to do in a "sandbox" style.
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Harvest: Massive Encounter is an award-winning RTS with battles of epic proportions and a unique style of resource management and exploration. Build power plants, mineral harvesters and defense towers and make sure they have sufficient energy to fend off endless hordes of evil aliens.
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Due to popular demand, we have now installed Stronghold, a classic RTS based in Medieval Britain. Stronghold focuses primarily on conquest and expansion through military pursuits, but also provides space for economic strategy and development. There is both an economic and a military campaign to be played.
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The Oddworld series of games are 2D platform puzzle games. The games centre on Abe, a Mudokon slave working at the RuptureFarms meat processing factory on Oddworld. When he discovers that he and his friends face death at the hands of their desperate master, he decides to escape and aid as many enslaved Mudokons as he can along the way.
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If you're reading this inside Crossfire, just click one of the icons below to load the game!
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Burnout Paradise
The Ultimate Box
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Stronghold
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Harvest:
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Oddworld:
Abe's Exoddus
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Oddworld:
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Crossfire has teamed up with The Mad Cow milkshake and smoothie bar, to offer all our members 65p off any small shake, or 85p off any large shake, anytime.
The Mad Cow is in the Castle Arcade, just behind us on Castle Street. Just show your Crossfire/IGUK membership card to get any small shake of your choice for £1.75 (normal price £2.40), or any large shake of your choice for £2.75 (normal price £3.60).
Non-members can also participate in this offer: when you buy a 5pm-9pm evening pass, you'll get 1 voucher, for 1 milkshake of your choice at the special Crossfire prices. You'll get 2 vouchers with an all-day pass. But this way, you're limited to one per voucher. Another reason to become a member if you haven't already!
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For the third week running, Crossfire has topped the IGUK Trackmania scoreboard. Weeks 1 and 2 were won by Vasquez109, and week 3 by Gareth. Crossfire is leading the league table overall with 5572 points, well above Surf 'N' Play's second-place score of 3652.
This week is the final week of the mini-league, so get into the game quick! Put in your laptimes on IGUK's server by 7pm Monday. At that time, the server will be taken down and points awarded - the player with the most points wins a tenner, and all remaining players are put into a Frag Lotto draw to win another tenner.
If you're reading this from inside Crossfire, just click the icon below to load Trackmania straight into the IGUK server!
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