Some of you will have noticed a few of the GameArena services have been shut down in recent weeks.

We need people, especially BigPond customers, to let BigPond know how important GameArena and our public servers, competitions, steam mirror, file downloads and other things are to you.

Please go to http://www.gamearena.com.au/ and do the GameArena 2013 survey.

Please let your friends and clans know to do the survey as well. Every BigPond customer who does the survey and lets BigPond know that GameArena and our game servers are important to you will be a big help.

You can go directly to the survey here: http://www.gamearena.com.au/surveys/gamearena-2013.php

Some of you will have noticed a few of the GameArena services have been shut down in recent weeks.

We need people, especially BigPond customers, to let BigPond know how important GameArena and our public servers, competitions, steam mirror, file downloads and other things are to you.


Please go to http://www.gamearena.com.au/ and do the GameArena 2013 survey.

Please let your friends and clans know to do the survey as well. Every BigPond customer who does the survey and lets BigPond know that GameArena and our game servers are important to you will be a big help.

GameArena is looking for feedback from the community. If there is anything you'd like to see changed or improved, hit the feedback thread on the forum here: http://www.gamearena.com.au/forums/Team-Fortress/viewtopic.php?t=153818

Also, we are looking to add some new blood to our server admin team (the TF2 GameOps). You can find the application information thread here: http://www.gamearena.com.au/forums/Team-Fortress/viewtopic.php?t=153900. If you want to apply, you can find the application tool here: http://www.gamearena.com.au/help/apply/?

We are pleased to announce the first release of MatchCreate at http://www.matchcreate.com.au - a website that lets players organise and compete in ranked pug/scrim matches on an ad-hoc basis for a variety of games.

The website is intended to act as a rendezvous point between players and friends/teams that want to compete in an organised match against another group of players.

Traditionally if you wanted to play in a pug/scrim you would need to join several IRC based chat channels and post advertisements to play and find someone that had a server available to play on.

MatchCreate attempts to provide a more fluid and fun experience in forming a pug/scrim match by bringing players together and supplying the necessary servers to play on.

Matches are ranked and you can interact with other players before playing to make the experience a bit more fun.

Servers are started on demand by GameCreate, and for Steam based games you are connected automatically when the server is online. So unlike other methods, you don't need to worry about arranging a server to play on and configuring it at all.

GameArena is providing the match servers; and you just need a Steam account to join.

Visit www.matchcreate.com.au to give it a bash and provide feedback.

GameJoin (see the previous announcement) has been updated to now support the Left 4 Dead DLC Survivor game mode.

To find a populated Survivor game, type: gamejoin go sv

As usual type 'gamejoin' on its own in the server console to view more help.