Wii Owners: Wii need your help!

HEY! If you have a Wii, CANFAR McMaster needs your help! They are holding a Wii Tournament March 18th to raise awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS research. It’s a great cause, and if you can spare your console and your time on Thursday, March 18th, it would be awesome!

If you’re interested, send me an email. (andrew /at/ mdgg.ca)

-Andrew

THE PS3 LAN

ps3-lan

Hey everyone! Our new event is right around the corner… THE PS3 LAN! It’s happening in BSB-120 on Friday, January 29th. We’ll be playing a couple of PS3 games via a wireless LAN we’ll set up. If you want to nominate a game, or bring some hardware like controllers or more PS3s, just give me an email at andrew at mdgg.ca.

RSVP by Facebook please!

See you all there!

MLC Frost Week LAN

Hey everyone, this may be late notice, but the McMaster LAN Club is having a LAN Saturday, January 16th,  from 11am to 8pm, in BSB 106. It’s going to be a Counter-Strike Tournament with a $10 entry fee.

80% of entry fees going to prize pool and 20% for MLC hardware upgrades.
There will be a draw for a “Mystery Prize” hint: its 20lbs and glows blue. Also there will be gaming packages from Pownz Gaming Center, and other possible prizes (t-shirts?).

The format will be a round robin with the top 3 seeded teams winning prizes. Teams will be ranked by matches won,lost,tied and (if tied between two teams) number of rounds won. Counter Strike 1.6 or Source, to be determined by an upcoming poll on the MLC website. More details will be posted when they are finalized. Note: ANYONE CAN COME TO THE EVENT, YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE FROM MCMASTER!

So, if you guys can make it be sure to check it out!

-Andrew

[edit -- Mixed up the date. Proper one is posted above]

MDGG EVENT #2: PRE-EXAM LAN!

McMaster Digital Games Group, in association with the McMaster LAN Club, presents the Pre-Exam LAN!

Meet this Friday, December 4th at 5:30PM in BSB-120 for some free LAN and pizza!

We’ll be playing Warcraft 3, Age of Empires 2, StarCraft and Counter-Strike 1.6. Just bring your laptop, mouse and game face and prepare for some hilarity!

MDGG Event #1 Recap

poster

If you weren’t at the 6n4 tournament, shame on you! If you were, you already know how awesome it was. We had a bunch of tournaments, and here are the winners:

Super Smash Bros Tournament

Finalists: Corey, Jay, David
Champion: David
Consolation Prize: Frank

Mario Kart Tournament

Finalists: Frank, Coleman, Piotr
Champion: Coleman

Diddy Kong Racing Tournament

Finalists: Steven, Mike, Max
Champion: Steven

Perfect Dark Tournament

Finalists: Marcus, Max, Andrew C, Aaron
Champion: Andrew C (Crossbow ftw!)

Congratulations to the winners, and we hope to see you guys out at the next event!

Left 4 Dead 2 Preorder Plan [update 2]

mdggzombies

Here’s the plan: If you are planning on buying Left 4 Dead 2 on day 1 through Steam, send me an email at andrew /at/ mddg.ca. We’re looking to organize people to buy the Left 4 Dead 4 packs to save us some money.

Each Member will pay $35. The first person listed will be the one to collect the cash.

Current Left 4 Dead 2 Preorder Groups

  • John Clements, Piotr Bruszewski, Tom Sherrard, Dan Zagorac
  • Andrew Carreiro, Alex Theriault, Howard Tse, Shanan Raveendraraj
  • <new group>

Also, just as a reminder, the 6n4 Gauntlet Tournament is tonight at 5pm in BSB-120! See you all there!

MDGG Event The First: The 6n4 Gauntlet

poster
Click to super-size!

Hi everyone! We’re having our first event, the 6n4 Gauntlet, this Friday October 9th at 5:00 PM in BSB-B120 EDIT: It is in BSB-120, not the basement.
The 6n4 Gauntlet is a tournament where each round will be a randomly decided game from the following list of Nintendo 64 games:

  • Diddy Kong Racing
  • Mario Kart 64
  • Goldeneye
  • Super Smash Bros
  • Perfect Dark
  • Super Mario 64

Each game will be a 4-player match with a specific objective and time limit. Bring your own controller if you don’t trust in any plastic that isn’t yours. You can come and hang out for free — bring your portable systems and we’ll play some multiplayer games before and during the tournament. If you want to try your hand at the tournament, it’s a $3 donation to enter, and the winner will take home half of the proceedings. The rest will go to the MDGG for future events.

Hope to see you guys there!

RSVP on Facebook

Game Night: Unreal Tournament 3 (For Free!)

If you haven’t seen the advertisement on Steam, Epic is having an Unreal Tournament 3 free weekend. That means you get to download and play the game for free this weekend!

When: Sunday 8:30 PM

Where: McMaster Digital Games Group Chatroom on Steam

We’ll decide on a server from there and be good to go. Prepare to frag!

Note: To speed up your night, you may want to install before 8:30pm. The download may be hefty.

Sept 19 – Mac LAN Club Event

Hey everyone! Just passing on a message from our sibling-group the McMaster LAN Club:

The new school year is here so its time
for a FREE LAN Party to have some FUN!!!
Burke Science Building rm 106
Saturday, Sept 19th
11am to 6pm (show up whenever your available)
Desktops and laptops are welcome, and so are your friends, so bring
them too!

Visit www.maclanclub.com/event_info.html for more info.

I wholeheartedly advise you guys check it out if you can!

… and OUR first event is working it’s way through the intertubes and should be out in the open soon!

A Message From the Administrator Regarding Clubsfest & New Applicants

mdggpwn

Welcome. Welcome to MDGG. You are one of the 150 who, at Clubsfest, chose, or were chosen, to join one of the finest university gaming groups available. We thought so much of the games we’re going to play, that we’re working on the first event on the campus so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I have been proud to call MDGG my group. And so, whether you are here for the Steam group, or passing through to games unknown, welcome to MDGG. It’s more fun here.