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BattleTech Pods coming home to Chicago for Anime Central

For Immediate Release

VWE Tesla II BattleTech: Firestorm cockpits come home for Anime Central May 8th through the 10th

To celebrate the 25th year of BattleTech and the 20th year of BattleTech VR attractions, Virtual World Entertainment, LLC is taking its critically acclaimed Tesla II BattleTech: Firestorm cockpits to the Anime Central convention in Rosemont, IL. Held at the Hyatt Regency O�Hare and the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, the convention runs May 8th through 10th.

Charter Capping Bandwidth

Broadband Reports has confirmed that Charter Communications is implementing download caps. According to the linked article, the Charter TOS will be updated Monday, Feb. 9

Speeds of 15Mbps or slower will have a 100GB monthly cap, while 15-25Mbps speeds will have a 250GB monthly cap. Only the highest tier (60Mbps) service will continue to be unmetered.

BattleTech Pods coming to Marmalade Dog Jan 30-Feb 1

To help celebrate the 25th year of BattleTech as well as the 20th year for its BattleTech VR attractions, Virtual World Entertainment, LLC is taking 4 of its critically acclaimed Tesla II BattleTech: Firestorm *****pits to entertainment events around the United States.

SCALE 7x Issues Call For Papers

SCALE 7x, the 7th Annual Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for papers. SCALE 7x will be held on Feb 20-22, 2009 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. If you are working on an interesting open-source / Linux related project, or would like address the community, SCALE welcomes you to submit a presentation proposal.

Call of Duty - World at War Sees US Release

Treyarch's next installment in the CoD franchise, Call of Duty: World at War, is a hitting shelves this week along with 360 and PS3 versions of DICE's long-awaited FPS platfomer, Mirror's Edge.

New Game Store Open in Kalamazoo/Portage Area

There is a new video game store that opened on August 1st for the Kalamazoo/Portage area. Games Warehouse offers game systems from Atari to XBox360. They also carry portable DVD players and MP3 players as well as specialize in case modifications.

MPCon XXII July 25th-27th

$25 Per Person
200 Gamers Max

Eastern Michigan University Student Center
900 Oakwood Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

This is MPCon's 22nd event, it is BYOC, and there will be tournaments to go along with it.
CSS 5v5
Guitar Hero 3
Trackmania Nations
COD4
MPCon Quick Draw

They will be freeplay for games like Zombies 1-7, Chez Everything, Settlers of Catan, Lunch Money, Escape from Innsmouth, Battle Cattle, Megastar, The Haunting House, FRAG, Mad Scientist University, Starfares or Catan and MUCH MUCH MORE. He's scheduled playing for other games too.

For more information, go to
www.mpcon.org
or contact me at
kenkonarzewski@mpcon.org

Gamers 4 Giving

Gamers 4 Giving
$7500!!!!
February 29th - March 2nd
250 BYOC LAN + $1000 Cash Prize Halo 3 2v2 Tournament
$25 for LAN OR Halo 3
$40 for LAN AND Halo 3

MPCon, Michigans Largest Bi-annual LAN Party is teaming up with the Gamers Outreach Foundation (GOF) to host one of the largest events Michigan has ever seen. Not only will we have a 250 Person BYOC LAN, but running all day Saturday we'll have a Halo 3 2v2 $1000 Cash prize tournament. The LAN will last Friday Afternoon - Sunday Morning having over 40 hours of gaming! That $7500 up at the top, that's the goal we're looking to donate to the Autism Society of Washtenaw County which is a local branch of Autism Society Of America

The BoxHeads Spring LAN Party 2008 Details

The Spring 2008 BoxHeads LAN Party will be different from our previous events. After hosting LAN parties throughout Michigan for the last 6-7 years, we decided it was time for a change. We're stripping away the gimmicks and hype and get back to the gaming. Our ultimate goal is to cut the fat and replicate the fun and excitement of one of our basement LANs in a public event.

The event will take place at the Plainwell Community Center in Plainwell, MI on April 12 from 10am until 10pm. Admission is only $5.

Don't call it a comeback...

Details and sign up coming soon...