James Galvin

I can’t believe I missed this a couple of weeks ago… QuakeCon is a major computer gaming event held anually in Texas since 1996. This year’s event had over 7,000 attendees, and dished out $100,000 in prize money.

What do you think of this:

To promote the event, the organisers posted some pictures from the previous year on their website. One of them showed idle.ee, the Estonian team who won Enemy Territory competition, on stage holding their cheque.

This caused a buzz on some of the gaming community sites (eSReality, xfire) for the wrong reasons. It turns out that someone, probably the QuakeCon webmaster, didn’t think that the original photo projected the right image for Quakecon:

Eventually, the Photoshopped image was removed from the front page, and the original was put in its place, without any explanation from the Quakecon staff. Apparently, the guy who was removed is a German Enemy Territory player called Urtier. I think he has a right to be fairly pissed off.

Here (via bch).

This is pure class - the best photoshop series since Something Awful merged human features onto animals. Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.