Multiplay i43 – Now Where Did All That Cash Go?

Goodbye appropriately-named-Insomnia 43, we will miss you. Now the event has closed and nothing is left but the team to start packing up the gear and heading home, here’s a round-up of who won what, in case you weren’t paying attention. Dignitas won the Halo Reach Tournament, which was sponsored by Multiplay, scooping up a £1,500 prize pot. Infused came in second and took £625. Maps MLG C... more.

The Anthony Nolan charity came out in force in a recruitment drive to hunt down gamers at the Insomnia i43 event. They had over a hundred sign ups, but they’re still looking for a few good men to go onto the stem cell register to potentially save the lives of people with blood cancers. Rebecca Sedgewick, one of the charity’s recruitment managers, said it made sense to be at the event.... more.

At Insomnia 43, the UK's biggest gaming festival, three impromptu bands risked public X-Factor style humiliation for the chance of winning a Quiet PC kit and a guitar each in a Rock Band contest. Judged by Craig ‘Wizzo’ Fletcher of Multiplay, Paul ‘Skippy’ Lee from Quiet PC and Rachel Gordon, marketing manager for Mad Catz (the makers of the Rock Band peripherals), the trio subjected th... more.

In an exciting match that rubber-banded from one team to the other, TCM eventually beat back the competition to scoop first place in the Insomnia Call of Duty 4 finals. They played against Team Infused and managed to claw back a win from a poor start. The match lasted an hour and a half and the TCM line-up was Mumma, froz, azeo, SkiNNN and Blackmane. We pounced on team captain Adam ‘Mumma’ ... more.

Mad Catz has revealed that it will have a left-handed version of the Cyborg R.A.T. mouse coming before the end of 2012. The team at the  peripherals manufacturer, which also makes the Rock Band video game instruments and Triton headsets, promises Kit Guru that they’re “working on it”. Rachel Gordon, marketing manager for Mad Catz revealed she herself is a leftie and that like most peo... more.

The UK’s top pro-gaming team Dignitas has revealed it has big plans for the group’s ninth anniversary on September 9. They’ll be hosting a Hall of Fame on their web site and will also have a nostalgic evening of playing Battlefield 1942 – the first game the team ever played. Dignitas also recently launched an online store selling themed merchandise and has had a staggering response, sel... more.

Square Enix has released a new mini-documentary that examines whether or not the tech that rebuilds Deus Ex: Human Revolution hero Adam Jensen would be possible. Filmmaker Rob Spence – nicknamed the Eyeborg due to the fact that one of his eyes has been replaced by a video camera – meets researchers into the field and some of the world’s first cyborgs. There’s Miika Terho, who lost hi... more.

A short film inspired by the first-person puzzle game Portal called Portal: No Escape, directed by Dan Rachtenberg has been released on YouTube. The seven minute short stars Danielle Rayne as Chell, waking up in a large, bare cell. An unknown amount of time goes by as she searches desperately for an escape, does countless press ups and eats unappetising looking food that is shoved under the doo... more.

The third game in the PlayStation 3 exclusive first-person shooter series Resistance is due out on store shelves on September 6. The first game was a launch title for the console and has so far spawned two sequels, all created by Insomniac Games. However, if there’s a fourth in the series – and let’s face it, there probably will be – Insomniac may not be at the helm. Insomniac’s creat... more.

Gamers were in uproar when they downloaded Ubisoft’s god game From Dust only to discover that the game’s DRM (digital rights management) software meant they had to be online to authenticate the game... not just once but every single time they wanted to play. Yesterday, Ubisoft responded to the backlash by saying that it would be removing the DRM from the game entirely and that a patch would... more.