The Group Thing

Yesterday we announced over at The Group Thing that we're looking to sponsor a new team for pro/semi-pro gaming. This team, if there is interest, will be formed from within The Group Thing's own ranks, or The Group Thing will announce the sponsorship offer to other teams.

This is the real deal, folks. If you're looking for a chance to get started in the competition scene, The Group Thing is your step stone. The Group Thing has all the means available to you to get started with servers to practice on and much, much more.

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Splash Damage once again combines their Cristmas cards with a fund-raiser for the endagered species, their beloved mascot, the tapir.

As a founding clan and major part of The Group Thing, Connect Gaming will of course support and do our best to try and raise some awareness of the Splash Damage Christmas Tapirthon '09. As you may or may not know, the tapir is Splash Damage's official mascot and is depicted in most situations and pages on their company website.

This card is the one we recieved over at The Group Thing, with our custom TapirScene™

The back of these cards read:

"Tapirs are endangered, but you can help! Simply customise the card with the enclosed sticker sheet, post a picture of it on your website, and send a link to tapirs@splashdamage.com. For each of the first 30 submitted Tapirscenes, Splash Damage will donate money to tapirs.org conservation project."

All four species of the tapir are all endangered! With your help, they can be saved!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

As expected, Splash Damage's new title, which will be revealed in June at the E3 conference, will be a "genre-breaking" FPS! Still as tight lipped as ever, but a little taste of things to come have been revealed.

Fable II lead designer Richard Ham is the projects lead director, add Bethesda to this, and we might have something very special to look forward to.

Bethesda Europe's managing director Sean Brenna has let slip this little nugget, who's title is yet to be revealed, and for us to look forward to! Brennan explains they have been tight-lipped as "there are so many innovative features in there we don't want to reveal them too soon."

We can't wait!

Source: Splash Damage