Expected to be released on November 9th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC, Call Of Duty: Black Ops is making the news all over the place. The PC multiplayer support will use Steamworks and Valve Anti-Cheat for DRM, in a version with dedicated servers as well as having full modding capabilities. Check out the killstreaks, the weapons and much more in this piece of news.

An interview with Josh Olin, where the Treyarch community manager answers questions about Call Of Duty: Black Ops, is also available.

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Although the Portuguese World Cyber Games 2010 finals have been reduced to Guitar Hero 5, our K1ck eSports Club will still make a presence there. In fact, João "k1ck-JNC" Carvalho will fight for a ticket to Los Angeles and the right to play at the World Cyber Games Global Finals. The WCG.pt will take place at the Media Markt in Alfragide on September the 4th, starting at 10h00. 

Today starts the Portuguese Intel Extreme Masters 2010 Qualifier with sixteen teams looking for a spot in the Qualifying Rounds that will take some participants into this prestigious event finals. Our k1ck.cs squad enters this qualifier with the top seed, hoping to survive a series of online games, in a double elimination format.

Here are the brackets:

In a thrilling Grand Final  Firegamers coming through the losers bracket, took the best out of  Evil Geniuses and won two maps, thus grabbing the Gold at the Pan-American World Cyber Games 2010. The victory in de_nuke was not that complicated but the two overtimes in de_train were rather exciting.

Final Standings

	Firegamers	Gold - 1 961 Eur
	Evil Geniuses	Silver - 981 Eur
	mibr	Bronze - 392 Eur

Now that the seven regional qualifiers have come to an end, the WCG Brazil 2010 organization published a list with the seeds and the teams that will attend the event. The competition will be played in the double elimination format with the usual five maps de_dust2, de_train, de_inferno, de_nuke and de_tuscan, and it will take place at the Shopping Eldorado in São Paulo from August 27th to the 29th.

Here you can follow our event coverage with the competition brackets, HLTV, lineups and more:

Final Standings

	FireGamers	WCG Slot
	CnB	5 Intel i7 Processors
	GoldenGlory	5 Intel i5 Processors

After the conclusion of the second group stage, the Asus Summer 2010 reaches the playoffs stage. The four teams that will fight in the semis are a nordic team (Sweden) and three from the eastern part of Europe (Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan).

In the playoffs first round,  NaVi,  k23,   Lions and  forZe won their matches, keeping the dream alive and confirming that they were the stornger teams at the group stage.

Final Standings

	Lions	7 652 Eur
	k23	3 826 Eur
	NaVi	2 296 Eur
	forZe	1 530 Eur

No, this is not a news about music or The Clash mega hit "Should I stay or should I go", but rather a close look at what is happening among the H2K ranks, when it comes to their Counter-Strike team.

Part I - After some turmoil following the replacement of Markus "pronax" Wallsten for Björn "threat" Pers which led to the announcement that the team would be leaving, several rumours started to spread. The strongest of all was that the players would join Lions, after the disbandment of their former CS Norwegian squad.

Now you can buy games using the Steam platform without a bank account or credit card, just by using a prepaid paysafecard. This new way of payment was announced yesterday and as a launching promotion, Steam will offer a Portal game copy to whoever spends 20€ using paysafecard.

After a 5 month period of inactivity, Rogério "k1ck-VGSpeedPro" Barroso is back to the Need For Speed tracks, which means that more World Records have been broken. In fact, the K1ck eSports Club racer stormed the WR Hall of Fame and once again sits comfortably on the first place throne. Currently with 19 top 3 trophies, holder of 11 World Records with only 22 out of 37 Need For Speed Shift tracks redone, he is also the first in the ranking when it comes to the racers that have beaten World Records more times, 105 to be precise.

Even an expressive victory (24-06) over  Millenium wasn't enough for  Frag eXecutors to go through to the SEC 2010 finals. After a default 30-0 defeat vs  TeG, the players from Poland had a hard task at hands and a goal almost impossible to achieve.

By round difference, the teams from Group D that got the passport to SEC 2010 are  Millenium (+8) and  TeG (+4), leaving  Frag eXecutors (-12) out, as all the teams got three points.

SEC 2010 Qualified teams: