Although it may be hard to believe the title of this thread isn’t a thinly veiled attack on the age and hardware requirements of 1.6. You can actually play the game on your mobile phones. Now that’s out the way and I’ve hopefully avoided being reprimanded and psychologically assessed by the...

Last year a glimmer of hope was given to the Brazilian CS 1.6 scene as fans were given the option to vote for who they wanted to see in a new team which would be fully sponsored by Mandic and Razer. The team was eventually constructed with players formerly from FireGamers and complexity.br with the voting...

Natus Vincere have reached the final of the IEM VI Global Challenge Kiev following two straight 16:11 wins over fnatic , on inferno and tuscan. The Ukrainians were the team coming out on top in all the key clutch round situations and set the pace with solid leads at the half of both maps. The semi-final...

SK Gaming defeated Moscow Five in two straight maps to reach the final of the IEM VI Global Challenge Kiev. SK will face Natus Vincere in said final tomorrow at 11am CET, with $16,000 going to the winner and $8,000 to the runnerup. Regardless of the result SK Gaming will top the IEM VI Season rankings...

Natus Vincere are the IEM VI Global Challenge Kiev champions after thoroughly steamrolling SK Gaming in the final after only two maps and 40 rounds played. The final seemed set to be one for the ages, as the scariest team of the latter half of 2011, SK, faced off against one of the only teams who had beaten...

The third place playoff has just concluded and it sees Dignitas take the victory and win $3400. The best of three started with SK Gaming taking a 1-0 victory after some strong play, especially from Kevin ‘SR kev1n’ Rubiszewski on Tryndamere. His Tryndamere was well fed and enabled him to put out...

Natus Vincere have been crowned winners of the first 2012 major, winning the IEM6 Global Challenge Kiev ahead of SK Gaming, with a very convincing 2-0 score. The battle for victory in Kiev started on de_inferno, with SK on the CT side, from where they managed to secure a 1-0 lead, as they won the pistol...

Second map de_tuscan you got a 9-6 lead after the Terrorists side and in the second half fnatic had no answer to your CT play. fnatic won versus you last time on this map, what did you do different this time in order to win? We didn’t change anything specific, just tweaked our current play style....

WinFakt has signed a sponsorship deal with SteelSeries, one of the gaming industry’s leading peripherals manufacturers. The move comes shortly after SteelSeries decided to discontinue their support of Warcraft III legend Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen, who is now a professional StarCraft II...

Finnish side Anexis – one of the invites at the Winter Assembly next month – have been forced to make more changes to their lineup, just a month after losing Ville ‘VILZU’ Valonen and Henri ‘heku’ Anttalainen. Late in December the team announced the departure of the long...

SK Gaming ‘s ever-consistent fragger Christopher ‘GeT_RiGhT’ Alesund has put up a blog on fragbite about the semi-final win over Moscow Five here at IEM VI Kiev and tomorrow’s final vs. Na`Vi. GeT_RiGhT is regularly blogging for the Swedish website and fans can stay up-to-date with...

We have had some great matches already in this IEM but today it’s time for the more serious business of the tournament. Whoever wins these best of 3 semi finals will secure a spot in the finals which will be played tomorrow. Here is my prediction for the day as well as a little reasoning behind the...

fnatic are in prime position to win Group B of IEM VI Kiev following two straight wins in their first two games. First of all fnatic came back to win against WinFakt , they followed that up with a big win over Mousesports . IEM VI Kiev Group B: fnatic 16:12 WinFakt (inferno CT 6:9 CT 10:3) fnatic 16:06...

The latest Winter Assembly is set to take place in just over a months time, here are all of the details. The Finnish scene has enjoyed a huge resurgence in recent years and much of that is down to the regular stream of LAN events, giving teams and players something to strive for. Just last weekend we saw...