For everyone "excited" for it, Windows 10 will be available July 29th.

I know, don't everyone thank me at once, but the awaited release of the latest OS from Windows should have you excited. Why? Well if you own Windows 7 or 8, you have a year to update for FREE!

The big feature that will apply to you the most is the exclusive DirectX 12 that will only be available on Windows 10.

For more features check out this video:


If you are ready to jump the gun and upgrade you can "reserve" your copy now through a taskbar app and upgrade now.

Now my question for you, are you going to upgrade? Are you going to wait? How long do you wait? Respond here in the comments section.

You might have noticed we've added a few new pages to the home page. A bunch of it is still under construction but we'll have some new content for you guys to digest.

We could use some help with it, check out this thread for more information: http://www.steamgamers.com/forum/sho...61200&p=741064

The Game Reviews, will be user submitted game reviews.
The Game News is added by selected people, more details will come on this.
Newsletter is going to be similar to the game news, but will deal with SG related stuff
The Scrim Tourney Page will be all easily accessible information on the tournament.

So enjoy the new content!

Scheduling:

-Each team will play 2 matches against another team. So a total of 10 games will be played.
-You will play one "home" game and one "away" game. One map is considered a game.
-A MINIMUM of 2 games has to be played within a week. You may play more than 2 games in a week.
-We are going to have an outlined schedule but for the sake of timing you may play the same team back-to-back even though they aren't listed as your next opponent.
-After the completion of the 10 games we will design a bracket based off the standings.
-The captains (or designated captain if the original captain chooses to have a different one) MUST schedule their own times for the matches within the 7 day time frame. Since we are starting most likely on a Monday you have until that following Monday to complete 2 matches.
-We will have a page with all of this information, once you organize a scheduled time for your match please notify us so we can adjust the schedule to include your time to prevent conflicting matches since we are playing on a single server.

Home & Away:
-As noted we will have "home" and "away" matches. You will play each team as the "home" team and as the "away" team.
-Away matches are designated as "@ Team Cakes" (just an example) on the schedule.
-When you are the HOME team you have a choice:

1. Choose the side (CT or T) on the map chosen.
2. Choose the final map choice between two choices.

-We have a total of 9 maps on the rotation as shown below:
Dust2 (team1)
Mirage (team2)
Inferno (team1)
Nuke (team2)
Overpass (team1)
Cache (team2)
Cobblestone (team1)
Train
Season

-The map will be chosen by each team taking turns and eliminating maps they DO NOT want to play. This will go until there are 2 maps left in which the team that is choosing the map has the choice between the 2 maps.

-This process is really not complicated but since I know it sounds confusing and I will receive 30,000 questions about it here is an example:

Team1 (HOME) versus Team2 (AWAY)
-Team 1 decides they want to choose the side on the map chosen (option 1 above).
-Team 1 has first choice of map they do not want to play.
-Team 2 then eliminates a map, then back to Team 1 and so on until there are just 2 maps remaining.
-As shown above now team 2 has the option of either playing train or season.
-Once the map is chosen Team 1 now can choose the side they want to play.
-So as a general rule: whomever is deciding the SIDE chooses the first map to not be played.

Various Rules
-First of all these may be updated over time to include overlooked rules so keep checking back for updates.
-Rule #1 - HAVE FUN! I cannot stress enough that this is not ESEA. This is a fun event for the community to get excited about. If you suck like me or your team sucks then get over it and just have fun. Don't screw over your team that may be actually trying (who does that anyway) and be an ass. Give it your best but this all for bragging rights.
-General CS:GO comp. rules apply. 15 round half, 2 minute round time, etc.
-Obviously no cheating, exploiting, glitching, etc. If found doing any of these you and potentially your team will be removed from the event and probably banned from SG.
-When starting your match you MUST record a demo at all times. This way if we have a situation where someone feels another player is cheating we just request the demo from you. It would be ideal to label the demos for easy recovery.

To record a demo, simply open your console and type "record demonamehere" and you're done.

-If you feel that someone is cheating, continue playing until the match is complete and notify either myself or Spiked and we will handle the situation.
-If you are found to be using an illegal substitute, such as someone logging on with a name that resembles one of your teammates but is actually someone else your entire team will be removed completely.
-Screenshots and scores must be reported after the completion of each event by the teams captain or replacement captain if the captain cannot be in attendance.

PM any reviews of any game you have to http://www.steamgamers.com/forum/mis...do=form&fid=52. Please include any screenshots or video links as well. Thanks!

Well the long awaited follow up from Frictional Games, Soma, has gotten its release date. If you are wanting to play it, you'll be waiting until September 22nd. Yes that's quite a bit off, with a lot of other big releases between now and then. The good news is that they've also released a 12 minute game play video.


Check out video here:



For those whom haven't been following Frictional Games, these cats are the geniuses behind Amnesia: The Dark Decent. They've been working on Soma before Amnesia, back in 2010. So while watching the above video you'll notice a lot of similarities between Soma and Amnesia. They say the delay in Soma's development has been due to them wanting to perfect the technology of the game mechanics.


This reminds me of when James Cameron delayed the development of Avatar for like 15 years for the camera technology to catch up. Hopefully this will be worth it for us gamers, just from the above video, I'd say its we are going to be scared shitless.

Here is how the Round Robin play of our Tournament will be working. Each team will play 2 different games, one as the home team and then the away.

Week 1:
SG Badmins - Team Peanut Daycare
lil shits - Team Cakes
Bring Back Dan - Try Hard

Week 2:
lil shits - Bring Back Dan
Team Peanut Daycare - Team Cakes
SG Badmins - Try Hard

Week 3:
SG Badmins - Team Cakes
lil shits - Try Hard
Bring Back Dan - Team Peanut Daycare

Week 4:
Team Peanut Daycare - Try Hard
Bring Back Dan - Team Cakes
SG Badmins - lil shits

Week 5:
SG Badmins - Bring Back Dan
lil shits - Team Peanut Daycare
Team Cakes - Try Hard

If there are any issues with scheduling please let myself or BlackEagle know immediatly.

At the end of the Round Robin we will hold an elimination tournament with seedings based of results of the round robin.