KontrolFreek Blog

Our list of affiliates here at KontrolFreek reads like a who's who of Youtube personalities.  With guys like Trumpf, Muzzafuzza and B3NDRO among the ranks, our affiliates consist of the best of the best, and that's why they're part of the family.

Since early December our affiliates have been participating in our "Ultimate Affiliate Contest."  We challenged our top affiliates to battle it out for thousands of dollars worth of cash and prizes (like a sweet 3D TV and gaming headsets!) by seeing who could generate the most sales for the month of December.  All of our affiliates did a great job and the competition was close up until the very end.

The winners for the Ultimate Affiliate Contest are:
1. Taylor Pierce - IAPP (3D TV valued at $1,000)
2. Robbie Kennison - Muzzafuzza ($250 bonus + gaming headset)
3. Ben Davis - B3NDRO ($200 bonus + gaming headset)
4. Jonathan Trumpfy - Trumpf ($100 bonus)
5. John Cummings - Boohoodman ($100 bonus)

Our winner, Taylor, built a pretty awesome Black Ops iPhone and Android App called Black Ops Virtual Coach Pro that everyone who plays CoD owes it to themselves to check out.

Thank you to all affiliates who participated!  We look forward to doing more stuff like this in the near future.  If anyone has any interest in becoming part of KontrolFreek's extended family of affiliates please complete and submit the form here: http://www.kontrolfreek.com/affiliates.asp

Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 consuming your life?  We know.  We can’t stop playing it either. 

Speaking of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, did you know that Team Fear (Kontrol Freek sponsored MLG team) earned a podium finish at last weekend’s COD 4 National Championships in Anaheim, CA?  That’s right! Out of all of the really awesome players in the U.S. who play Modern Warfare, they manage to be awesom-er.  We think that’s pretty... awesome!

So congratulations, Fear, on your third-place finish!  Keep dominating!  And keep on using those FPS Freeks.

I used to be good at Halo.  So when ODST came out I decided to plug in the Halo 3 Multiplayer disk and relive some of my former glory.  Sure, I figured that I’d be bit rusty from not playing for a while, but I never thought that I would still be getting straight-pwned after multiple hours.  Ouch!  This concerned me.  So after a lot of frustration—and maybe even a few tears—I decided to get to the root of the problem.

My first thought was the obvious: I suck.  Then, right before hanging myself, I decided that I wasn’t really as bad as my stats were demonstrating.  I mean, I’m not god’s gift to gaming or anything, but I do have nearly a 2.0 kill/death ratio in Modern Warfare.  My conclusion: everyone must be cheating (well, maybe not everyone--but you can see what I'm getting at).  I have certainly fallen victim to cheaters in the past but it was usually something relatively obvious.  When you are constantly getting shot from outside the map in Call Of Duty, Ghost Recon, Halo, Gears of War, and every other popular game in the history of multiplayer gaming, you know when the C is O (“cheat is on…” stay with me).  But this was different; I was being outgunned—by the same guns that I was using!  I decided that I was being beaten by hardware mods (rapid fire controllers, specifically).  Had this exception to the rule become an epidemic?

Now, I’m all about obtaining advantages (that’s why I use FPSFreeks, after all) but when does this lust for the upper-hand become cheating?   Where do you stand on the issue?  Where do you draw the line in your quest for that tangible edge?

We wanted to announce that KontrolFreek is sponsoring Team FeaR for the 2009 season and hopefully for many years to come.  Team Fear currently competes in Call of Duty 4 at GameBattles and MLG.  We hope to see you in Meadowlands if MLG will pick up COD4, keep up the good work FeaR.  If you would like to get lessons from Team FeaR, visit their site, www.teamfearpro.com and their home page is www.teamfear360.com

DpG Gaming is the main sponsor of Team FeaR.  You can visit the DpG Gaming site for more info on them.