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Street Fighter X Tekken

Posted May 8, 2012 by infinity

Infinity examines when fighting universes collide in this Street Fighter/Tekken crossover… It’s been out for a couple months now, but just last week I was finally able to grab a copy of Street Fighter X Tekken for Xbox 360. Street Fighter X Tekken is a newer mash-up fighting game consisting of characters from – you [...]

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Iron Storm XIII: State of the LAN

Posted April 30, 2012 by Colin Dean

It’s time again for a fireside chat with el presidente himself, Colin “Rhettigan” Dean. In a tradition started long ago, Rhettigan talks about many aspects of Iron Storm XIII, explaining what went awesome (just about everything!) and what Pittco could have done better. He also talks a little bit about the future of Pittco and LAN gaming in Pittsburgh.

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Iron Storm Is Ready – Are You?

Posted April 20, 2012 by Jon Daniel

Registration closes at 12:00PM today but walk-ins are still welcome and we accept both cash and credit cards at the door. Before you leave for Iron Storm take a few minutes and ensure that all of your games are up to date and launch-able. Steam released an update last night so make sure you have [...]

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Iron Storm XIII Internet Update

Posted April 14, 2012 by Jon Daniel

Greetings Gamers, Iron Storm XIII is less than a week away and it’s looking like it’s going to be our best event ever! Seats are filling up fast so if you want to attend remember to sign up at pittco.org/shop. TL;DR our Internet connection works and is much faster than previous events. Get On With [...]

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StarCraft II Time Change and Call For Casters!

Posted April 10, 2012 by Jon Daniel

Start Time Change After much consideration Pittco has decided to move the start time of the StarCraft II tournament from 6:30PM to 3:00PM Saturday April 21st, 2012. This will allow us to run the tournament at a more relaxed pace and give games a chance to have a “cool down” period between matches. Registration If [...]

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Details for Counter-Strike: Source tournament at Iron Storm XIII

Posted April 9, 2012 by Colin Dean

Because we added the CS:GO tournament, sponsored by Club Conflict in cooperation with Valve Software, we’ve changed the format of our 5v5 Counter-Strike: Source tournament. It will be double elimination with a $25 per team buy-in, winner take all. Maps will include the classic maps we all know and love. The Proposed Map Rotation is: [...]

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StarCraft II Time Change and Call For Casters!

Iron Storm XIII Internet Update

Win an Antec Eleven Hundred chassis from Antec, ThinkComputers, and Pittco

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Pulse Update!

Posted September 23, 2011 by Nik Parenti

Our brethren over at Cipher Prime released an Update to there extremely popular iPad game, Pulse. If you own an iPad and you don’t have this game, there is something severely wrong with you. Pulse falls in line with the other 2 games that CP has recently developed; Auditorium and Fractal. If you like music and puzzles you’ll feel right [...]

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

Posted September 19, 2011 by Nik Parenti

By Tom Hoggins, Video Games Editor The Telegraph The Gears of War boys have had it their own way for too long, swanning around as if mile wide shoulder blades and carving aliens into giblets was their idea. This is Warhammer 40K, and the original space marines want their chainsaws back. Space Marine is a simple game [...]

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PC Gaming is Not Dead! Enter the Razer Blade

Posted August 26, 2011 by Nik Parenti

Razer recently had the world buzzing with a full page AD in the Wall Street Journal stating that on August 26th an announcement made by them would change PC gaming as we know it. Well after biting our finger nails for a week we finally laid eyes on something I personally thought we’d never see. The Razer Blade [...]

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Pittco eScene – Ep: 001 – The Beginning

Posted August 2, 2011 by Nik Parenti

Okay kids this was a project that was talked about some time ago but we never had the equipment or drive to pull it off. The Pittco eScene was a project that Derek ‘Synapse’ Staley and I came up with and figured that the Pittco site was a perfect place to showcase it. The goal [...]

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Ubisoft to Provide Beta Keys for TrackMania 2 Canyon at RetroLAN

Posted August 1, 2011 by jungleralph

Ubisoft has graciously offered to send us beta keys for their upcoming sequel Trackmania 2 Canyon. While RetroLAN will have a focus on games 10+ years old, we just couldn’t turn down an opportunity to give our attendees the chance to get early access to what is shaping up to be a sick-looking title. Trackmania is also [...]

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New RetroLAN sponsors: Viatell, Bigfoot Networks

Posted July 6, 2011 by Colin Dean

Pittco is pleased to announce two sponsors added to the RetroLAN sponsor line-up: Bigfoot Networks, maker of the Killer NIC series of gaming network cards, and Pittsburgh-based Viatell, builder of gaming and business desktops and laptops. BFN will be sending along a swag pack and Viatell will provide a 1.5 TB Seagate external USB HDD for the winner of [...]

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RetroLAN old-school LAN party registration open!

Posted June 14, 2011 by Colin Dean

Do you remember the early days of LAN parties, when dial-up was the mainstay and only the rich kids had that newfangled “DSL” or “cable Internet” service? Do you remember lugging your Pentium 3 or your AMD K6 and that shiny new ATI Rage 128 graphics card with a 30 pound 19″ CRT monitor to [...]

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Pittco Gamer Interview – The GXL TMG 2011 Promo

Posted May 5, 2011 by Nik Parenti

Okay this was a post that was supposed to go up a couple of days ago, actually this is an Interview that I did only a couple of days ago… But alas due to the shear amount of editing I would have had to do to this Interview I decided to post it in its [...]

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