Hello Folks, it's that time of year again when people just seem to go mad. You know what I mean, instead of playing video games they just want to go see their families and hand presents to each other in the good spirit of ye olde christmas time.

Disgusting.

So I have kicked off a month long event to get you, my fellow SpAites away from your families and playing games locked away in your room, like you should be. This weeks theme is retro games, because we all love nostalgia, so head over to viewforum.php?f=205 for more details.

Until then.

Z.S

Our Battlefield 3, 64 max, Conquest only server is now online.

For the IP, config settings, mapcycle settings and server feedback please visit the Battlefield 3 sub-forums.

Enjoy gaming, see you on the battlefield!

There are still a couple of places available in the SpA highlander events.

For more information and signing up, visit the highlander events section on our forums.

You asked for it, and we’ve given it to you whether you like it or not. Or, more to the point, Ditch has. Cos he’s rigged up Mumble to give us a way to bring you commentary, which means we can now livecast Ultiduo games!

The plan, for now, is to do our first night of casting on Sunday (12^th June), and to cast as many of the games in the elimination stages as possible. So if you schedule your games for Sunday then we’ll do our best to cover them; hopefully we can get a good run of games in a row and we can make a night of it.

All you need to do to take part is to sit in the Mumble channel where we’re providing commentary, and to view the match in-game through Source TV (meaning you just connect to the correct IP in TF2, we’ll provide you with the right one before each cast).

If you’d like to be part of the commentary team, get in touch with me (Scatterbrain) and I’ll see what I can do for you.

Hope to see you on Sunday!

From now on you can follow us using Twitter. We've setup a specialattack twitter account which we will use to broadcast small messages such as minor changes, server reboots, small maintenance etc.

You can follow us at http://twitter.com/specialattack

The last 5 tweets will be displayed on the website at the right hand side. On the forums we will display the last tweet posted.

Hello gamers!

We just launched GameGround as an open beta and we’d like to invite YOU to take a sneak peek. In addition, we’re running a special contest just for Special Attack members & friends!

GameGround is a lightweight personalized gaming app that enhances your games and connects players of all types. It learns not only what you're playing, but also what you're achieving on your PC, Xbox and any website. This enables new missions, rewards, high score incentives and ways to share success to prove you’re the best amongst your friends.

We've created a new layer of missions for some of your favorite games, and a whole new way to visualize your achievements across multiple platforms. Our technology will help you keep track of your fastest level completions, best scores and other cool metrics!

We’re going to be giving away a $150-worth prize the 3 winners of the contest!

GAMEGROUND BETA TESTING CONTEST

Starting this Thursday (9/12/2010), compete against your fellow Special Attack friends for your chance to win.
In order to qualify:

1. Create an Special Attack Forum profile here.
2. Sign-up for GameGround via the following link: GameGround signup.
3. PLAY VIDEO GAMES on GameGround, and earn at least 20 missions.
4. Complete the mission named "Friendly" (invite 10 friends to GameGround).
5. Post your GameGround username and share your thoughts about GameGround in the comments below this article or on our forum!


We're going to be giving away $150 in prizes -- $50 each to the three winners. In addition, just for participating you'll receive a special-edition digital gadget exclusive to the Special Attack community.

Contest ends on Thursday, December 16th - 12:00 PM ET.

Winners will be announced over the weekend.

That's it!

We’re still in beta, so if you encounter any problems please give us a shout. Don't hesitate to send us your questions, suggestions, comments, and feedback: http://getsatisfaction.com/gameground or directly to jeremie@gameground.com

Good Gaming!

I hereby proudly announce the SpecialAttack.net community Transformice Weekend/Evening (we'll see how it goes). It will take place from Friday 23.07.10 to Sunday 25.07.10. Precise hours will be agreed upon later. The fun will begin at 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT) in the room SpA on the EN server! Type /room SpA to join it.

The best part about it all is: you don't need ANYTHING except for a web browser to participate although joining us on Mumble would add to the fun.

If you don't know what Transformice is, check out this epic video summarizing the gameplay (new features have been added since then):

To play register (preferably, though you can play anonymously too) on any server, i.e. EN or EN2:

http://transformice.com/en/
http://transformice.com/en2/

Playing as Shaman needs a bit getting used to, I'll elaborate a bit on our forums but I recommend checking out the excellent Transformice Wiki:

http://www.transformicewiki.com/

Updateable stand alone clients can be obtained here:

http://limdul.specialattack.net/TransformiceEN.zip
http://limdul.specialattack.net/TransformiceEN2.zip

Useful if you want to i.e. rotate objects with the mousewheel without scrolling.

Santa has stopped by SpecialAttack headquarters and since you were all nice this year he left a bunch of presents for you! Prepare for some awesomeness in the following days:

Twice as many points-per-donation rate (Today, 21.12 - New Year, 31.12)

 Starting from now until the new year, you will receive twice as many SpA-points for every euro donated - that's 60 points / €.

Doubled rewards for playing on SpA servers (Thursday, 24.12 - Saturday, 26.12)

On Christmas Eve you will get 1 SpA-point for every seven and half minutes of playtime on our servers!

Partymode (Wednesday, 23.12 -  Sunday, 27.12)

Since party hats are the closest thing TF2 has to Christmas we will enable partymode on our servers so you can have fun blasting enemies into presents and balloons.

This is WAR SPECIAL WAR! (Wednesday, 23.12 - Sunday, 27.12)

Along with the partymode we will be running a small competition. The top 24 players with most kills in this time period will receive a spray permit and class-limiter immunity for 1 month. Get in the top 10 and we will throw in a reserved slot for 1 month. And for the best 3 of you the slot will last not one, not two but three months! Are you still reading this? Time for some practice!

Some time ago quite a few SpA members started playing Heroes of Newerth and then stopped after they realized they suck at it. Only one brave warrior, Lim-Dul, decided to hone his skills over many, many wasted evenings of rage inducing matches and rise to the rank of absolute mediocrity.

Now it's time to introduce a whole new generation of fail to the world of Newerth!

Hereby I'm proud to announce the SpecialAttack Heroes of Newerth Weekend. The game is currently in closed beta but all former accounts, including mine, have a TON of invitations, so we will be able to cater for everybody.

The game is a clone of Defense of the Ancients, a WarCraft 3 mod, and basically plays out like a team-based Diablo with all the leveling and items contained within the boundaries of a single match. It's a lot of fun and with time you will discover unheard of depths to the gameplay. Sadly it's a bit hard to get into the game with no good documentation available except for user created guides and that's what I'm here for.

We will start on Saturday and Sunday (14-15.11.09) at 16:00 CET and play organized 5on5 matches every one or two hours until we get bored - sign-ups are on a first-come first-serve basis and various fun gameplay modes and settings will be tried out for maximum enjoyment.

A forum topic will set up when I'm able to do so (damn you, Hedgehog Incident!), in which I will provide additional info and where everybody can request beta keys.

Update: Thread created: http://forum.specialattack.net/viewtopic.php?f=94&t=6603

Also, BOOBS!