NoLaff News

Quakecon 2008 Dates Announced!

2008-04-27T21:47:00Z

It's that time of year again for Quakecon! Quakecon is one of the largest FREE LANparties in all of USA and probably the world for that matter. Quakecon is an annual event hosted by the people who make Quake (id software) and a bunch of volunteers. They do play more than just id software games in the BYOC, but the official tournaments are usually only for id software games. Anyway it's a pilgrimage that any gamer should make at least once in their life and it is a ton of fun. This year is an early...(read more)

Cox High Speed Internet Tier Upgrades Coming Soon!

2008-03-12T12:50:00Z

I had heard rumors, or stories from a friend of a friend that Cox Communications would be upgrading their two top end residential internet tiers. So naturally I took this news with a grain of salt until last night when I received a plain old snail mail letter from Cox. Basically the letter said price for service was going up (nothing new there) and that the Preferred Service Tier was going to 12Mbps while the Premier Service Tier is going to 20Mbps. The faster speeds shoud be really nice when coupled...(read more)

Cox Communications Upgrading Nationwide to 1 Ghz!

2007-12-03T03:48:00Z

There is a fine little article here about Cox Communications and what they are doing to delivery better internet and entertainment services than ever before. In short Cox is taking many different approaches to improve bandwidth effeciency along all of their communication lines that will in turn allow them to provide to their customers better service than ever before. They have already taken a major step in the right direction by having over 70% of their Markets networks upgraded to 1Ghz speed. This...(read more)

TeamFortress 2 Battle, Friday Night November 9th!

2007-11-07T04:37:00Z

A bunch of t he NOLAFF staff members have managed to have nothing to do this upcomming Friday night so we figured we would host a Team Fortress 2 battle. Come and play on the server and give us a run for our money (a.k.a. Get the beating you deserve)! This will be going on all night so feel free to jump in and out of the server as you see fit. So if your up for the challenge then you know where to find us!...(read more)

NOLAFF TF2 Server!

2007-10-22T17:56:00Z

Just in case you live under a rock (or Fema trailer) Valve's Orange Box has been released. Once your done playing all the levels in Portal (and you get your cake) come and join us on the NOLAFF Team Fortress 2 server. The ip is nolaff.com. That should be easy enough for anyone to find, but we are posting it here as we would like to play against some of the NOLAFF regulars. See you there....(read more)

Cox Deploys SDV in Virginia!

2007-08-24T15:48:00Z

Cox has deployed Switched Digital Video (SDV) in Virginia in the hope of releasing more bandwidth to deliver more HD channels. SDV works by only "turning on" watched channels. Currently Cox delivers all their channels all the time wether or not anyone is watching. This takes up bandwidth and is wasteful as even if no one is watching Lifetime network the channel is still being broadcast. With SDV the channel is only broadcast when someone tunes into that channel. With the amount of bandwidth that...(read more)

NOLAFF 22 FAQ!

2007-06-29T15:09:00Z

With NOLAFF 22 less than 24 hours away I figured I would do a quick FAQ about the event tomorrow and what you will need in order to be prepaired. It has been awhile since we held a LANparty so for the most part this FAQ is meant to be a simple refresher. What time does the event start, and where is it at? The event will start at 9 am, but we will be there earlier than that setting up the network and tables. If you would like to help setup you can show up earlier than 9 and give us a hand. The event...(read more)

Cox Targets 50 HD Channels by Year-End!

2007-06-27T20:50:00Z

Like almost everyone I know that has an HDTV the only grip/complaint that we have about our HDTVs is that there is not an adequate amount of content. I find that I'm so spoiled by the picture quality that HD brings that to watch anything not in HD is painful. This is even more painful when during football season you go to a friends house to watch the game only to find out they don't have a HDTV set (Or even worse, they have an HDTV set, but are watching a standard definition feed of the game). Well...(read more)

NOLAFF 22 to be held on June 30th!

2007-05-31T12:44:00Z

NOLAFF 22 has a date booked and set in stone for Saturday June 30th. This event is going to be held at the usual hotel location at the Days Inn and is located at 3400 I-10 Service Road, South, Metairie, LA. 70001 . So far this event is going to be console only. Since it is very easy to switch from one game to another for consoles I would suggest just bringing your entire game library, but so far the main games that will be played are Gears of War, Halo, and Guitar Hero. We are open to suggestions...(read more)

Blizzard Officially Announces Starcraft II

2007-05-19T18:59:00Z

For those who may not know Blizzard has had a countdown each day for the past week and a half describing the wonderful games they have made over the years. The countdown was active for a big announcement that Blizzard is officially announcing Starcraft II as the next game to be released that they are activley developing (So much for the console Starcraft: Ghost game). Any Starcraft fan like myself is extatic about this announcement, however in typical Blizzard style there is no release date announced...(read more)

Xbox 360 HD-DVD Update!

2007-05-16T17:12:00Z

The HD-DVD add-on drive for the 360 just got an update that makes the unit that much better. If you haven't gotten into the next generation of DVD players (HD-DVD, and Blu-ray) and you have a nice BIG screen HDTV you may want to give them a look. The picture quality will really bring out the full capabilities of what a HDTV can do and simply looks increbile. Next week there is going to be a ton of "must have" titles released including the Matrix Collection, and hopefully these movies will do for...(read more)

NOLAFF 22!

2007-04-30T12:13:00Z

I've confirmed with our host hotel that they have finished all reconstruction and that the ballrooms that we use for NOLAFF are once again opened! What we now need to know is what would you guys like to play? We have done everything from PC, XBOX, XBOX 360, PS2 and Duck Tape the new kid. I've started a forum thread to discuss this. Let us know what you would like to see and we can get started with the planning! As always, these events are for you. If you don't voice your suggestions, don't complain...(read more)

Spring Xbox 360 Update to be Released in May!

2007-04-25T05:08:00Z

The Xbox 360 update for Spring 07 is almost here and several new tweaks and features for the 360 will be introduced. Microsoft will be introducing tweaks to the messaging abilities of the 360 and even releasing a new thumb keyboard for messaging. Should help make the "Live Anywhere" service that much better. More improvements on background downloading, and even more support for h.264 and MPEG-4 video formats are among some of the other improvements. For a full list of improvements just follow this...(read more)

Xbox 360's Guitar Hero II controler works in Windows!

2007-04-07T04:16:00Z

As you can tell from the title of this post the 360 version of Guitar Hero II controller works perfectly in Windows. So you know what that means? Plenty of extended play value via Guitar Hero II controller and Frets on Fire ! For those who do not know Frets on Fire is an open source game the is pretty much identical to Guitar Hero except that for the most part it is played on a keyboard, but can easily be changed to now work with the USB guitar. The real bonus is that this game has an entire on-line...(read more)

Exclusive Console Game List Update!

2007-04-06T12:46:00Z

Gaming Target has an updated list of console exclusive games and the rules by which all games were judged as being exclusive or being denied the label of exclusive. After the count the 360 has the most "exclusive" titles and easily beats out the PS3 and Wii....(read more)