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• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
• 4GB DDR2 RAM
• 500GB SATA-II Hard Drive
• 896MB NVidia GTX 260
• 24" Widescreen Monitor
• DVD-RW Drive
• 650W Corsair TX PSU
• Gigabyte Aurora Tower Case
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Razer Lachesis Phantom Laser Mouse
• Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard
£1,399.00
Base unit only: £1,099.00
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• Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
• 2GB DDR2 RAM
• 250GB SATA-II Hard Drive
• 512MB nVidia 9800 GTX
• 19" Black & Silver LCD monitor
• DVD-RW Drive
• Hiper 530W PSU
• Coolermaster RC-532 Case
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse
£799.00
Base unit only: £659.00
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• AMD Athlon X2 5000+
• 2GB DDR2 RAM
• 250GB SATA-II Hard Drive
• 512MB ATI HD4670 Graphics
• 19" Black & Silver LCD monitor
• DVD-RW Drive
• Hiper 530W PSU
• Gigabyte GZ-X2 case
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse
£595.00
Base unit only: £449.00
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| It's been a busy week.. first Lich King, then CODWAW, now Left 4 Dead. Two new games and a big update in the space of 7 days.
Left 4 Dead: A co-op action horror game that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Set in the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, L4D's survival co-op mode lets you blast a path through the infected in four unique “movies,” guiding your survivors across the rooftops of an abandoned metropolis, through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests in your quest to escape a devastated Ground Zero crawling with infected enemies. Each "movie" is comprised of five large maps, and can be played by one to four human players, with an emphasis on team-based strategy and objectives.
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Call of Duty: World At War, the latest in the series, is now installed on all gaming PCs and ready for play.
We've now begun working on adding it to the stats analyser. On Friday night the dedicated server was set up to log everything, so once the game's stats analysis is fully up and running - which we hope to be sometime this week - all play since Friday night will be added to the stats database and will show up on this site.
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| It's here at last and installed on all our gaming PCs!
We have just a few spaces left for tomorrow night's 24-hour WOW event. If you'd like to attend, get your deposit in quick!
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The winner of the October Game Stats competition is announced as... The Man, aka Dean McLean.
The Man and Servant of Kane battled through this evening at the top of the stats table, with The Man finally coming out on top. Dean wins 50 Pwnage Points to spend on any prizes of his choosing.
Starting from next month, there's not only 50 Pwnage Points for the player on top overall - there's another set of 50 points on offer for the person who gets the most skill points during just that single month. Check out your "Skill Points This Prize Period", not just the overall table, to be in with your chance!
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The latest in the Command & Conquer series - installed today on all computers! 
The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making World War III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies like Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.
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We have now finalised the prize setup for our Game Stats competitions.
Winners will be awarded a set amount of Pwnage Points, which they can then use to "buy" whatever prizes they want. Take a look at the Pwnage Shop for an idea of what you can win. We'll be adding some games as prizes over the next couple of days, and we'll be adding things whenever we hear of things you'd like to win.
The First Prizes
The player at the top of the stats table at the start of the day on 1st November wins 50 points. Every month thereafter, it'll be 50 points for the player at the top (the player with the most skill points overall), and another 50 points for the player who has increased their skill points the most over the month. See that column in the Stats labelled "Skill Points This Period"? It will be reset at the start of every month. So even new players get a chance to win every month.
Spending Your Points
If you have some Pwnage Points, you can choose what to do with them. You could spend them in one go, you could spend some straightaway and save the rest, or you could save the entire lot and build them up for something big. A gaming mouse, an iPod, even a Wii!
The winners will be on the News page each month, and also on the Leagues & Tournaments page, which will build up a permanent record of their prowess.
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By popular request, we have now installed the Command & Conquer 3 expansion, Kane's Wrath.
At the time of its release in July, C&C3 wasn't getting much play, and so, we thought, neither would the expansion. Over the past couple of weeks however, several of you have asked us to get it - so we have.
If you have any suggestions or requests, for new games or anything else, let us know either in person or in the forums. If a few people ask for the same thing, we'll buy and install it. |
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As well as the newly-released DOTA map, we have today installed five Half-Life 2 mods.
 Age of Chivalry
Multiplayer combat set in the Middle Ages in a highly detailed fantasy world. This medieval mod features a melee combat system, a wide array of weapons, armor and supporting equipment.
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 D.I.P.R.I.P. Warm Up
Die In Pain, Rest In Peace. Vehicle combat in various post-war environments. The vehicles use multiple weapon mounts which are activated by finding weapons scattered around the battlegrounds.
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 INSURGENCY: Modern Infantry Combat
The modern battlefield with intense, realistic battles. Choose your side between a highly organized conventional army or the partisan insurgents. Geared towards clans and organized teams of players.
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 Synergy
A Half-Life 2 multiplayer mod with multiple gameplay modes, mainly focusing on cooperative play. Get together with friends and fight your way through individual levels or play through campaigns, including Half-Life 2.
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 Zombie Panic! Source
A co-operative survival horror Half-Life 2 mod, the sequel to the popular Half-Life Modification "Zombie Panic".
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View the full thread (the Comments link below) for full details of these games.
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Announcing two all-nighters in the next couple of months:
Saturday 1st November: Half-term all-nighter, the usual 12 hours for £15, 9:30pm until 9:30am Saturday morning.
Friday 14th November: 24-hour Wrath Of The Lich King marathon. From 9:30pm Friday until 9:30pm Saturday evening, explore the new areas and get your characters past level 70. A full 24 hours for just £25 - almost as low as a pound an hour. Test your limits: how long can you last? Your mind may be in it, but how long will your body let you go? Whatever you do, don't fall asleep! You can still do just the 12 hours for the usual £15 if you don't have the stamina for the whole thing 
| NEW! Reserve space in all-nighters via Paypal |
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For any all-nighter, you will need to reserve your place by paying either in full or just a £5 deposit. In case you can't get here in time before the event, you can now pay online through Paypal. You don't even need a Paypal account of your own - the button here will also accept payment by credit/debit card. (Note that all-nighters will go ahead with a minimum of 15 signups. If there are not enough signups your deposit will be refunded, or moved to the next all-nighter if you prefer.) |
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| The weekend's stats are up. Every night from now on, soon after closing time (10pm), the dedicated servers' logfiles will be analysed and the figures will be on the website for all to see. After the first two days, Private Nex is top of the leaderboard with 30,923 skill points. The first prizes will be awarded at the end of October, after a full month of play. We'll post details of the prize setup over the next couple of weeks.
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For the past couple of months, we've been working hard at building the new-look website - and it's finally here!
It brings with it a major new addition to the Crossfire experience for all our members: LAN Server Player Stats.
Whenever you play on the Call of Duty 4 and Counter-Strike Source LAN servers, your kills and the damage you inflict on others are recorded. You can check out all players' stats on this site at any time, simply by clicking "Player Stats" in the menu on the left.
Kills, deaths and damage are converted into Skill Points. You gain points for inflicting damage on other players, gain more points for every kill, and lose points for every death. You're given an overall army rank according to your skill points, and will be able to move up the ranks the more (or the better) you play.
And from the end of October, at the end of every month, there'll be a prize for the player with the highest number of skill points overall - and another prize for whoever has increased their skillpoints the most over that month. What will the prizes be?... watch this space!
Stats recording begins this weekend. On Monday morning the test data currently showing on the site will be replaced with the results of scanning the weekend's logfiles, and the website stats database will be automatically updated at closing time every evening from then on.
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| Stats: The Current Top 20 |
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814,873 |
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479,381 |
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292,352 |
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283,328 |
| 5. |
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231,456 |
| 6. |
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228,791 |
| 7. |
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202,123 |
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190,104 |
| 9. |
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189,008 |
| 10. |
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188,392 |
| 11. |
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170,486 |
| 12. |
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165,257 |
| 13. |
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158,733 |
| 14. |
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103,263 |
| 15. |
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97,535 |
| 16. |
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95,211 |
| 17. |
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91,951 |
| 18. |
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89,529 |
| 19. |
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86,943 |
| 20. |
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80,337 |
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