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February is the month of Zombies here at Hak5. We’re playing Left4Dead (l4d.hak5.org) and Zombie Panic Source (zp.hak5.org) from now until the official show down on Saturday, February 28th.
We expect to start a Left4Dead campaign around 3:00 PM Eastern. Use the Tournament Signup form to enroll for this event and be sure to give us your Steam name so we can contact you. We’ll randomly choose four players to hack and slash with in a Left4Dead campaign. Depending on how things go we may do multiple campaigns so more players can rotate in.
If the Left4Dead server is full and you still want to get your Zombie bashing fun in join the Zombie Panic Source server. We’ve been hearing good things about this free mod so give it a download.
Overall best gamer for the party on Saturday, February 28th will be rewarded with a kickass Hak5 sticker pack including a cast signed stick of RAM. How Bad-ass!? So be sure to sign up so we can contact you if necessary.
And if you haven’t already go ahead and join the Hak5 Steam Group. See you in game.
The first day of CES was brought with many challenges. This being our first ever CES we’re a little baffled by Las Vegas architecture and geometry, which seems to have been developed on a higher plane of existence then ported to Earth in an attempt to bewilder mortals.
Regardless, we’re here in Vegas doing our thing. The five of us spent the day splitting up and covering approximately 7% of the conference floor. Things are big and things are shiny. There are never to be mass market pie-in-the-sky prototypes and there are really pretty gidgets far beyond our meager hacker budgets.
The highlight of the day, aside from finally meeting face-to-face with the Revision3 kr3w, was CES adjunct Showstoppers – a small (in comparison) press event featuring neato-new-technology peppered with the obligatory are-you-fraking-kidding-me.
We* ended the night with a Day One Pow Wow. I figured it would be fun to share with you our initial thoughts on the show, our expectations and lessons learned.
*Actually everyone else is asleep while I’m up editing down HD footage to an “uploadable” format. As it turns out bandwidth is hard to come by here. I’m paying $12 for 384k! (Don’t even start Aussies).
P.S. One more lesson learned: Turn on the LED lamp when shooting wide in front of a white table using auto exposure. Yeah, my fault. I’ll ride the Fail Bus home Sunday.
—Darren
Calling all pixel ninjas. Ever wish you could submit an Evil Server logo or action graphic to us and win cool Hak5 swag? Now you can, with our spiffy new Evil Server Logo (or action graphic) Contest! Clever, hu?
From now until Monday, December 15th we’ll be accepting submissions for this totally bad-ass contest — winner(s) of which will be judged based on style and evilness. The winning graphic(s) will become part of the new Hak5 sticker collection (and possibly other cool stuff). Read more for details. Read more
Today is the last day to enter to win the Hak5 Prize Bundle over at Raffstar. Don’t miss out!
Prize Includes:
- Autographed copy of Superman issue #648 (which features Hak5)
- Hak5 stickers. buttons, shot glasses
- Music from the show by Pronobozo
- Jinx.com gift certificate for a Hak5 t-shirt
