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Omega Sektor opening today
Omega Sektor, a new colossal gaming centre in Birmingham, UK is about to open its doors officially today. Omega Sektor is first as its kind when it comes to the venue and every other gaming detail included along, although this is 25th Omega Sektor to be opened. The venue comprises two floors and space within 22,000 square foot. For more than 400 PCs are included, and all this are custom-built for gaming. And not to mention the internet cafe, movie area and a Xbox 360 room. Furthermore, Omega Sektor's official sponsors Activision, THQ and Square Enix have their own areas. "Publisher are really passionate about this whole experience that we're delivering and there were more publishers and sponsors that wanted to be involved than we could actually service at this point. The biggest problem is actually having enough space to fit them all in. We wanted to make sure that we had games that are different across the centre, and now we've got a bit of a queue of who we're going to work with after this," commented the marketing boss Adrian Le Mans at Gamesindustry.biz. The new centre will without doubt be in a big and important role at the growth of E-Sports community when its committee is having a massive PR campaign, which consists of tours at universities, festivals, city centres and concerts as well in the area of the United Kingdom. "This centre is about everyone at every level, and that means clients as well as consumers. We will have all platforms available for everyone to play. It's about social gaming and interacting with other people. It's really about what the market wants and we'll deliver that," continued Le Mans. The charge for customers is supposed to be £5 pound for three hours, plus other promotional activities which idea is to entice more customers in Omega Sektor. Check out the official Omega Sektor website to find out more information!
gamesindustry.biz
By Antti 'drinn' Paasivaara
Aug 10, 2007 16:10
Omega Sektor, a new colossal gaming centre in Birmingham, UK is about to open its doors officially today. Omega Sektor is first as its kind when it comes to the venue and every other gaming detail included along, although this is 25th Omega Sektor to be opened. The venue comprises two floors and space within 22,000 square foot. For more than 400 PCs are included, and all this are custom-built for gaming. And not to mention the internet cafe, movie area and a Xbox 360 room. Furthermore, Omega Sektor's official sponsors Activision, THQ and Square Enix have their own areas. "Publisher are really passionate about this whole experience that we're delivering and there were more publishers and sponsors that wanted to be involved than we could actually service at this point. The biggest problem is actually having enough space to fit them all in. We wanted to make sure that we had games that are different across the centre, and now we've got a bit of a queue of who we're going to work with after this," commented the marketing boss Adrian Le Mans at Gamesindustry.biz. The new centre will without doubt be in a big and important role at the growth of E-Sports community when its committee is having a massive PR campaign, which consists of tours at universities, festivals, city centres and concerts as well in the area of the United Kingdom. "This centre is about everyone at every level, and that means clients as well as consumers. We will have all platforms available for everyone to play. It's about social gaming and interacting with other people. It's really about what the market wants and we'll deliver that," continued Le Mans. The charge for customers is supposed to be £5 pound for three hours, plus other promotional activities which idea is to entice more customers in Omega Sektor. Check out the official Omega Sektor website to find out more information!
gamesindustry.biz
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Go check it out!
AND ITS FREE ALL THIS WEEKEND!!
PGCC... nothing :D
If they can fix the bugs with the machines (i.e. real awful set up with this discgusting razer keyboard taking all the space, missing some games - wc3!!!! and making sure all the games work and are updated not cpm1.35 ffs, then it should be very good)
- Copperhead drivers installed, though all the machines had deathadders??
- Keyboard was broken (Tarantula after 1 day of use? Broken 3 key, needed to almost smash it to get it to work)
- Insufficient power given by the keyboard to power my own keyboard (standard apple with usb hub built in)
- CPMA 1.35 installed for Quake3 which is about a year old with no CD Key and no punkbuster
- Starcraft couldnt find CD (DT was running though)
- Warcraft 3 couldnt find CD (finally found the TFT shorcut after searching for about 10 minutes)
- Q4Max heavily out of date (0.70b i think?)
- 360s were not working
All after pretty much searching for about an hour. Over half the machines were not ready and after waiting approximately 12 months for it, its a bit much?
From what the staff there were saying apparently it is not Sujoy and Dom running the show, but some other company with some further direction from Intel.
In order to get all these machines ready for CGS is going to be a lot of hard work. Noone is going to be want to be forced to use the awful Tarantulas, though for some good points:
- The area was generally quite nice
- Desk space was adequate (enough to fit a titanpad and a normal sized keyboard - not the tarantula)
- There were indeed a lot of machines, enough for a large event (should they all be functioning)
- Download speed was ok (30kbps i was getting to challenge-tv)
Unfortunately I didn't really get a chance to play any games (couldnt connect to any q3/q4 servers or launch sc/wc3) and if they decide to keep the price of £5-£10 for 3 (ONCE EVERYTHING IS FIXED) then sure its definitely worth it. Its just seeing whether its all ready for the big day.