Hey Folks,

It’s getting close to the time of year when we redesign our t-shirts, and take a look at our overall company image.

This year, we have decided to take a proper look at the logo, I’ve a lot of feedback in relation to our logo since we changed to the current one. It didn’t fall on deaf ears but we (management) decided that it was best not to change our logo until we did the annual redesign.

We have also decided to change the tags from ag. to adv. this change is NOT effective yet, however feel free to play with the tags. As is tradition here at Advance Gamers, we will let the teams choose a suffix for their team, however they must discuss the suffix with myself OR mib before it will be considered the official suffix for your team.

We would like the community to take part in the logo redesign process so feel free to pop on teamspeak with us and discuss it, maybe even have a go at designing one yourself. We’d prefer any designs to be themed around an animal or some sort of image. We have tried text based logos in the past and seem to get a lot of negative feedback based on them. We have also decided to set the deadline for new logo design ideas as Thursday 8th December. We will then be discussing possible new colour schemes for our new t-shirts, logo and website.

I think that about covers it, back to playing with the t-shirts

~Ghostie

We are proud to announce that Advance Gamers will officially be going into partnership with FragRadio. Following discussions at both i43 and i44 we have decided to officiate the partnership between the companies and will be providing ongoing support to our new friends and their continued successes in the eSports Radio scene.

With this announcement, you should see a few changes coming to the site in the next few days as we lay down the final slabs and cement the agreement.

Both myself and MiB like to thank Alex for this opportunity to work with both him and his company to further the growth of Advance Gamers on the eSports scene.

~Ghostie

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It has almost reached that time of year where Mo Bros around the world spend an entire month growing and grooming their moustaches for Movember in order to reach awareness of men’s health.

Starting from Movember 1st, we are asking all members of Advance Gamers, capable of growing a mo to join with myself and MiB for a month of mo.

We are also aiming to partner up with Kyoto Lounge in Manchester to promote the month of Movember and seek donations. We will be joining the official Kyoto team when it goes live and will be providing links to the team page for anyone wishing to make donations towards the team. (my personal page is: http://mobro.co/Utghost for anyone wishing to donate to me directly).

About Movember

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.

How the money will be used

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programs run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programs in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Anyone wishing to learn more about Movember should feel free to visit their site: http://uk.movember.com

We’ll be posting weekly updates with our progress during the month of Movember.

Thank you,

Declan ‘Ghostie!’ Briggs

OK, so I’m a little late with this one but here goes.

So just before i43 I was meant to post a few pictures of our 2011 t-shirts. Now these photos made it on to my twitter and g+ but not the site. So here they are

Once again, I’d like to thank Rhino Sports for an amazing job taking my less than perfect design and turning it into a work of art.

I’d also like to thank Asus and Advance Technologies for their continuing support.

So finally, after many months (I started them back in November 2010), the 2011 T-Shirt design has been finalised and ready for print.

The final design can be found here

Unnamed T-Shirts will be provided by ourselves at events, with named shirts costing £18. Team members will be given a significant discount on named t-shirts (speak to MiB or Ghostie for more details). Named T-Shirts can be picked up at events or we will look at how much it will cost to send them if you aren’t attending.

The Unnamed T-Shirts provided at events will be expected to be returned on the last day so they can be professional cleaned before the next event.

The first order will be placed in 3 days with Advance Technologies who will review the order before sending it to print.

Thanks,
//Ghostie!

Update: Cost of delivery to the UK is £1.50

Hey Folks,

As most of you have probably noticed. Activision have announced that they will releasing a premium service a long side CoD:MWfail3. From the looks of it so far, its going to be a bad mix between ladder sites like ESL and ClanBase and some social networking elements. There does appear to be a few nice features but just how much of the site will be accessible to people not paying the monthly sub has yet to be seen.

I’ve signed up to the beta taking place in a couple of months to get a closer, whether I get in or not is a different matter. Something I did notice while signing up is instead of saying ‘Platform preference’, they used ‘console preference’ and listed PC under the ‘consoles’. I’m sorry but a PC is not a console.

Anyway, that’s just my first thoughts on the matter. Hopefully they won’t tie any game content to the subscription service. Although from the intro video and the general news coming out about it. It would appear that DLC is going to be tied to the subscription.

//Ghostie!

CoD Elite Beta Site: http://www.callofduty.com/elite

Intro Video