GameStar is a magazine about PC games. It is a publication of the company IDG Entertainment Media GmbH. The German-speaking pilot was published in September 1997. The first commercial edition was available in October 1997. Meanwhile it is the best sold magazine of this type in Europe.

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ESL is the abbreviation for Electronic Sports League.
ESL's Web site puts to be Europe's largest and oldest online league for multiplayer matches based on computer games. It was founded in December 2000 with roots dated from the year 1997. Almost every game and every form of competition is covered, e.g. tournaments or ladders. There are three different types of leagues within Electronic Sports League:

• Advanced Ladder (Accessible for each registered player)
• ESL Amateur Series (EAS)
• ESL Pro Series (EPS)

ESL is operated by the German company Turtle Entertaiment GmbH.

Liberated Games is dedicated to cataloging all full commercial games that have been liberated and made free in playable form to the public.

Battlefield Vietnam is a first-person shooter primarily designed for multiplayer matches even though it provides a single player mode. It was developed by the game development studio Digital Illusions Canada and eventually published by Electronic Arts in March 2004. The game was built with a modified engine of its predecessor BATTLEFIELD 1942.

Battlefield Vietnam Intro

Battlefield Vietnam takes the player for a ride to historical settings of the Vietnam War, e.g. Cambodian Campaign and Operation Flaming Dart.

An outstanding feature of the game is that driving a (land-, sea- or air-) vehicle enables the player to select a song to be played from a list containing sixteen well-known songs of the Sixties:

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son"
2. Edwin Starr - "War"
3. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - "Nowhere to Run"
4. The Troggs - "Wild Thing"
5. Rare Earth - "Get Ready"
6. Canned Heat - "On the Road Again"
7. The Guess Who - "Shakin' All Over"
8. Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"
9. Deep Purple - "Hush"
10. The Kinks - "All Day And All Of The Night"
11. The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"
12. The Box Tops - "The Letter"
13. Jefferson Airplane - "Somebody to Love"
14. Bobby Fuller Four - "I Fought the Law"
15. Budapest Symphony Orchestra - "The Ride of the Valkyries"
16. The Trashmen - "Surfin' Bird"

Citation from the manual of the U.S. edition (page 8):

Rock and roll as you thunder into combat. Press 'o' in any vehicle to bring up the song list, then press the letter of the song you want to hear.

In dependancy of the distance everybody on the battlefield can hear the selected song. With a powerful gaming computer and a 5.1- or 7.1-channel speaker system the player can hear a mix of songs coming from different directions.

Maybe this feature was extended with the release of a subsequent patch.

Citation from the manual of the U.S. edition (page 8):

Everybody in the vehicle with you can hear a song you select from the original Battlefield Vietnam song list.

Moreover, the player can put her resp. his own favorite songs in the application folder of the game.

Citation from the manual of the U.S. edition (page 8):

Add your own songs to the radio list by finding the folder named "My Music" in the root Battlefield Vietnam directory, then placing your MP3s there. Only the first 26 songs in the folder are accessible in the game.

But in contrast to the songs supplied with the game only the driver can hear her resp. his personal MP3s.

The March edition 04/2004 of the German magazine GameStar commended Battlefield Vietnam with the GOLD-AWARD for a computer game that is of great entertainment value: The game received a score of 88 out of 100.

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BattleForge is a RTS computer game for Windows playing in a fantasy world. Like World in Conflict it does not use any lengthy base building and ramified ability trees during the RTS battles. An Internet access is required to play the game.

BattleForge Announcement Trailer ( EA )

To get a feeling for the power of the game I strongly recommend to read the comprehensive BattleForge magazine available in the languages as follows:

• English
• German

The description below is only an abstract of different sources.

The game features virtual trading cards that are the central gameplay element. Each card represents a specific combat unit, building or spell. The four basic colors of the cards represent four different powers. Red stands for Fire, blue for Frost, green for Nature and purple for Shadow. Playing fire cards bring aggressive units with offensive strength dealing a lot of damage on the scene. Frost cards are the counterpart: They represent the defensive element and can take tons of damage. Nature cards are easily controlled – the troops are well balanced and can heal allies. Shadow cards symbolize risk. These infernal creatures put – in the true sense of the word – everything on one card by using dark magic. The player can use up to twenty cards to assemble an army for a match. The cards constituting an army are called deck. It is possible to store configured decks for later re-use. There are a total of 200 cards available. The downloadable Play4Free edition contains 32 cards. The retail version (available for 30,- € in the EU) provides 64 cards and 3,000 BattleForge points (BF Points), an in-game currency. Players can buy and sell cards at an in-game auction house, using the BattleForge points. Players can also invite each other to conduct a direct trade.

BattleForge Action Trailer ( EA )

BattleForge provides a singleplayer and a multiplayer mode but both modes are entirely played online. During the singleplayer missions you follow the story on a fixed path. The further you victoriously progress in the adventure with your BattleForge army, the more waypoints and branches appear on the world map. These markers lead you to new battles. During the game you encounter 2-, 4-, or 12-player PvE battles in which you jointly fight against the CPU troops. This means that the singleplayer campaign develops into a unique one-player cooperative crusade! Of course, there is a PvP mode (player versus player). Basically there are two types of PvP battles: Head-to-Head (one player versus another player) and Team-vs.-Team (two players versus two other players).

The famous German composer Tilman Sillescu wrote the orchestral “BattleForge” music. The production process – from the first concepts to recordings to the final transfer to the game – took more than one year. Tilman promptly decided to use a symphonic orchestra for the Soundtrack after he and his team had seen the first BattleForge screenshots.

BattleForge - Orchestra ( EAFrance )

The April edition 05/2009 of the German magazine GameStar commended BattleForge with the GOLD-AWARD for a computer game that is of great entertainment value: The game received a score of 87 out of 100. Moreover it was commended with the award "für Innovation" (in English: for innovation).

An overwiew about the wide range of the ratings for this game is given by critify.de.

Phenomic: Home of Battleforge ( InsideEA )

Read more on

• GameSpy (in English)
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (in English)
• GameStar (in German)
• Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie (in German)

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Publisher: Electronic Arts

Game Development Studio: EA Phenomic

Release Date: March 23, 2009 in North America & March 27, 2009 in Europe

PEGI: 12+

Nexuiz is a 3D deathmatch game project handled by a team of developers called Alientrap. It was released the first time on May 31st, 2005 and is available as download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The maintenance and further development of the game is going on.
The team asserts the claim that the project is the first of its kind to develop a game under the GPL and by means of the Internet.

Supreme Commander is a real-time strategy (RTS) computer game developed by the game development studio Gas Powered Games and published by THQ in February 2007.
The game is described as the spiritual successor of the computer game TOTAL ANNIHILATION created under the direction of Chris Taylor by the game development studio Cavedog Entertainment and published in 1997.
After about ten years it shall bring back the strategy to the genre of real-time strategy computer games. In an article published by PC Gamer in August 2005 Chris Taylor claims: "Almost all modern RTS games do not actually employ strategy. In reality, they simply pit opponents against each other in resource wars, where the combatant with the most units wins." One of the features shown at E3 2006 was support for dual-head video cards, allowing two separate views of the map on two monitors connected to the PC.
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The game received the AWARD "für strategische Tiefe" by the German magazine GameStar (edition 04/2007 published in February 2007): Plenty of varied strategies are possible to win a match. Moreover Heiko Klinge, one of the GameStar's editors, wrote: "... Supreme Commander just unlocks its full potential in the multiplayer mode ..."
Fabian Siegismund, yet another editor of the GameStar magazine, stated in a preview published in the GameStar edition 11/2006: "Supreme Commander is not a game for in between but a real challenge."

War Rock is a multiplayer first-person shooter that enables players to experience large-scale battles online over air, land and see in vehicles and on foot. The game features strategic team play where you choose a unique character class for your soldier: engineer, medic, scout, combatant, and heavy weapons unit.

The unique concept is that the game War Rock is free to download and free to play. All players have access to the basic features of the game, including frequent content patches and the ability to rank up and unlock new weapons. Players also have the option to access Premium features through a variety of purchase options. These features include voice chat, extra Dinar, bonus XP gain, the 5th weapon slot, and more.

The game has been created by the South Korean game development studio Dream Execution Co. The maintenance and further development of the game is going on. The operation is done by the company K2 Network, Inc.

It received a score of only 59 out of 100 by the GameStar magazine in the March edition 04/2007.

The Web site asserts the claim to represent one of the biggest linux-gaming communities with an integrated multi-gaming-clan. Its intention is to provide you the latest Linux gaming related news, a big moderated forum, a huge HOWTO collection and other information about the community and the clan.

COP is the abbreviation for the phrase Community of Occasional Players.

The COP clan dissolved in the course of spring 2009. At that time the clan was minimum 4 years old.
It was open for players of any level. The chief motive was to have fun. Each member was only required regularly to participate in the activities of the clan. The clan's website was mainly managed by a gamer with the nickname Hademann.

The original URL of the website: http://www.copclan.net/

KVM-Switch Versand is a German online shop specialized in the selling of KVM switches and accessories. By the way, the token "KVM" is the abbreviation for the words "keyboard", "video" and "mouse".

Now you maybe think: "How are KVM switches related to (computer) gaming?"
Well! In my humble opinion, persons who like computer games are also interested in computer hardware sometimes. Therefore they have not only one but two or more computers, like me. And I'm really flabbergasted about the wide range of KVM switches offered by this shop. There are switches capable of switching between several output signals intended for a 7.1 speaker system! For example: UNICLASS 2-fach DVI+DVI/USB2.0/Audio KVM-Switch. KVM-Switch Versand primarily offers high-quality branded articles. Citation from the KVM-Switch Versand's Web site (unfortunately in German): "Herzlich Willkommen im Fachhandels-Shop mit der Top-Marken-Auswahl."

TigerPixel.DE recommends this shop:

• KVM-Switch Versand's Web site satisfactorily shows that the persons behind the scenes have a very good knowledge of KVM switches.
• KVM-Switch Versand's Web site provides many details (e.g. various images) for each offered product.
• KVM-Switch Versand's T&Cs (i.e. general terms and conditions, in Germany AGB called) are easily to understand and, in my humble opinion, without any pitfall for every customer, e.g. transfer of risk, in Germany Gefahrübergang called: The ordered articles are covered by insurance during the shipment.
• KVM-Switch Versand has a fair model for shipping and handling costs, at least for German customers. Moreover the purchase can be done on account, normally.
• The persons behind the scenes are really fast. In December 2006 I ordered the UNICLASS All-Driver PS2/VGA 4-Port KVM Switch article. I received the article already at the subsequent day.
  Meanwhile KVM-Switch Versand has replaced it with the slightly changed follow-up model UNICLASS Desktop PS2/VGA 4-fach KVM-Switch.

PC-Cooling is a German online shop for high-quality gaming, modding and cooling accessories.
TigerPixel.DE recommends this shop:

• PC-Cooling's Web site has a very clear user interface.
• PC-Cooling's Web site provides many details (e.g. various images) for each offered product.
• PC-Cooling's T&Cs (i.e. general terms and conditions, in Germany AGB called) are easily to understand and, in my humble opinion, without any pitfall for the end customer (e.g. transfer of risk, in Germany Gefahrübergang called).
• PC-Cooling has a fair model for shipping and handling costs.

Read more why PC-Cooling is a good choice for your next shopping.

Moreover the company PC-Cooling GmbH is the owner of the trademark Cooltek that stands for high-quality gaming, modding and cooling accessories.

Red Creature is a game store specialized in computer and console games. It seems to be the successor of the game store Mediastore Darmstadt that resided in the same premises and discontinued its business by the end of the summer 2007:

The shop is located in Darmstadt's city centre: → Directions