New USA 08 Home KitUS Soccer has unveiled the new 2008 Home kits, and once again they are a completely new style. The new kits are white and gray hoops with red piping, to me it looks more like a golf shirt than anything. In the last few years we have had white with a red and blue vertical stripe, blue with white and red horizontal stripe, royal blue with white pinstripes, red with white and blue sash (the "Don’t Tread On Me" kit that I wish we would keep), white with red and blue sides, red and white stripes, stonewashed blue with white stars, vanilla and blue, and white with blue and red diagonal stripes on shoulder and shorts. While the kit has kept the red, white, and blue, the actual design changes way too much. Other countries keep the same colors as well as the same basic designs, only changing small things, usually due to kit manufacturers chaning templates.
Valve Unveils SteamworksValve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announce Steamworks, a complete suite of publishing and development tools – ranging from copy protection to social networking services to server browsing – is now available free of charge to developers and publishers worldwide.
Steamworks, the same suite of tools used in best-selling PC titles Half-Life 2 and The Orange Box, is available for all PC games distributed via retail and leading online platforms such as Steam. The services included in Steamworks may be used a la carte or in any combination.
EVE Online Coming To SteamAnother game is making its way to Steam, this time EVE Online, the award winning massively multiplayer online (MMO) game from CCP. To celebrate the launch of Steam’s first massively multiplayer online game offering, a special 21-day trial period for EVE will be available, free of charge, to all Steam gamers. Steam gamers will also save $5 off their first full month of EVE Online.
Brazil Bans CS and EQBrazil has recently banned Counter-Strike and EverQuest, with the state of Goias already confiscating copies of the games, helped by PROCON, an organization that was created to defend consumer rights. The reason for banning the games? They describe CS as a game that “teaches techniques of war” and describes a user created map, cs_rio. Everquest apparently “takes the player to total distortion and psychological conflicts”.