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<img src="http://www.edge-gamers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8118&stc=1&d=1418765939" width="50%"/> Article: Insomnia Princess| Edited: Ratfire| Image: Sharknado <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> The Team Fortress 2 Division's Recruitment Hosts are currently hosting a special Holiday Recruiting Contest. Anyone can participate in the event, which started on December 1 and runs through the end of December. How to Win: To enter the contest, you will need to recruit at least ONE member during December. You can gain EXTRA points by inviting your recruit to TeamSpeak and division events. The top 3 recruiters with the most points, as well as random drawings from all entries, will win prizes including...

<img src="http://www.edge-gamers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8111&stc=1&d=1418418798" width="45%" height="45%"/> Article: Sonicjohnbh / Edited: Blaze and TheJollyRoger / Image: Sharknado <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> The Christmas Season is here, so everyone is probably shopping for presents for friends and loved ones. One of the difficult parts of buying gifts is choosing a gift that fits the receivers personality and is of good quality. Have no fear. The News Team has reviewed several games. Our own Sonicjohnbh has recently been playing the Space-Survival game, Space Engineers. He has positive things to say about the game, so if you like simulators or survival games, read his review here.

Article: Insomnia Princess / Edited: Ratfire / Image: Versed <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">PlanetSide 2 has made a small change to their Wednesday event. As of November, Wednesday Night Ops is now held at 8:00 PM Eastern instead of 9:00 PM. This is to allow more compatible times with school and work schedules. Friday Night Ops will remain at 9:00 PM Eastern. If you have not played PlanetSide 2 in a while, you're invited to come back and check it out with the regular PS2 Ops crew. If you're worried about lag or other issues from the last time you played the game, the developers have ironed out some of the issues from merging into the new Emerald Server. Never played PlanetSide 2 before? Come over and...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> Article: Oey192/Edited: Jon/Image: eGO As you may have noticed, EdgeGamers is a rather popular gaming community, which means that our servers get a lot of visitors. While a lot of these visitors are upstanding members of society who just want to have a good time and smash your face in with a frying pan, some of them are actually out to be mean, disrespectful, or otherwise disruptive. To solve this problem, someone invented admin tools (like kick, mute, and ban) to provide server admins with a way of keeping their servers in line. In the early days of eGO, these tools were all we had to uphold our Code of Conduct and make the gaming world a better place, but as we grew, it...

Article: Insomnia Princess / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: eGO <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> Day of Defeat is encouraging recruiting with a fun, easy contest that gives you the chance to win some nice prizes. To show how excited they are about their new recruiting program, the DoD:S Recruiting Team is hosting this contest from December 5, 2014 to February 5, 2015, giving you plenty of time to participate. All you have to do to enter is recruit a new member to DoD:S. You can earn extra entries by bringing that new member to an event or to TeamSpeak and encouraging them to make a post on the DoD:S forums or join the related Steam groups. The more involved your new recruit becomes, the more points you can...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> Article: DragonD | Edited: Jon, Blaze, and Ratfire | Image: Sharknado EdgeGamers will be supporting Advanced Warfare, under the guidance of the Operation: X Division. If you are playing Advanced Warfare, we invite you to join the in-game clan. By joining the clan, not only can you easily group up with other eGO members, you will also receive nifty patches, emblems, and experience points. We will also be participating in the new "Clan Wars." If you have trouble finding the clan in-game, add DragonD on Steam and he will send you an invite.</div>

Article: Insomnia Princess / Edited: Jon / Image: Versed <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> DoD:S has been building a recruiting team to help boost recruiting efforts within the Division. They had a recruiting meeting recently and if you missed it, you can read the highlights here. The trio of Lt.Nond, Whoflungpoo, and Stalingrad will be heading up the recruiting program, overseen by Q-tip. The focus is on Quality over Quantity across eGO today and we invite you to look for great new people that will be active in the community. Lt.Nond also has some advice on your recruiting attitude, "Everyone has bad/good days but when recruiting you should have the most fantastical day in the world." They emphasize the...

Article: Artimus | Edited: Ratfire| Image: Ill Legend <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">whitemike In three years, whitemike has risen to the level of Community Manager by offering website and server support even before he was officially in the Tech Team. When it became apparent that we needed a top leader for maintaining the site, he was the obvious choice for the job. Since accepting the position, he's become fully involved - revising and improving the effectiveness of nearly every technical aspect of eGO - and he's currently spearheading projects that will enhance our member experience into the future. For his dedication and invaluable contributions, we thank him and take pride in awarding him the Medal...

Article: Insomnia Princess / Image: Dangle / Edited: Caelestis <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> November was a busy month for eGO with many changes, additions and other fun stuff across the various division. Here are the highlights from November front page news. Battlefield Juggernaut - "Resistance is futile" By eGO, EA and DICE - Learn more about the Battlefield Juggernaut event from EA/DICE and EdgeGamers. Team EDGE Goes LoL - The Community Manager team was happy to announce a unique partnership with the University of Kentucky's ranked 5's League of Legends team to create a League division of Team EDGE. Distinguished Service Medal - NMsniper and _MEGA from Counter-Strike Division received the...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">eGO LIVE AT THE PLAYSTATION EXPERIENCE Starting on December 6th-7th, Sony will be hosting their first ever PlayStation Experience expo in Las Vegas and eGO has been invited to host exclusive developer interviews, attend developer/publisher panels and get hands on experience with some of the latest tech from Sony and PlayStation titles. We would like to invite all of our members to join us on our Social Media to view the event live with us as we stream all of our activities on our social media channels. The activities will start at 10am PST and last until 10pm PST each night. TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE | TWITCH <iframe width="500" height="281"...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Did you know that eGO has a Facebook page? We currently have 1,200 likes but we can do better. That is why we are pushing to get 1,500 likes by January 1, 2015 and that is where you come in. All people who like our Facebook page between December 1 and December 31 will be automatically entered to win a free eGO T-shirt from the Zazzle store featuring our new logo. Remember, this offer is only good if we hit 1,500 likes by 2015. You have nothing to lose by entering. What's not to like? Facebook.com/egogamers</div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Article: FlameLauncher | Image: Sharknado | Edited: Jon The holidays are here and if you are planning on going gift shopping through Newegg, Amazon, GameStop, or all three; why not support the eGO community at the same time? Shopping with the eGO Mall is simple: on the right side of any eGO page under the "Support eGO" tab, simply click on the button and begin your holiday shopping. For every purchase made through the eGO Mall, a small percentage goes towards the community to help keep servers running and players, like you, playing. Whether you're looking to get a new PC for Christmas or are simply shopping for gift cards for the family, every purchase helps, and there is...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Attention eGO Members: Roll Call All eGO members are required to fill out our End of 2014 Roll Call. We will run the Roll Call for two weeks, ending on the 17th of this month. To allow for only one response per member and give us the most accurate results possible, you will be required to log into a Gmail account to submit a response. If you are unable to access a Gmail account for whatever reason, please make a thread in the Drop Box and our Leadership team will give you the appropriate information to fill out for the Roll Call there. Please note that your email address will not be saved in the roll call results. A thread should only be posted in the Drop Box as a last...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Article: Ric | Image: Legend | Edited: Jon Since joining eGO just over a year ago, GreazyMeal instantly stood out as one of our most dedicated and active members not only within the division, but for eGO as a whole. Greazy is an active event attendee, always around on TeamSpeak, and always strives to provide a better and more fun environment for everyone to play in. His dedication to the community doesn't stop in the CS servers. He is an active member on the forums as well. Especially with the server rankings thread, where he has taken it upon himself to update it nearly every day since April He has thought of innovative ways to show us the long term changes in our servers...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Article: Insomnia Princess | Image: Sharknado | Edited: Jon The Fast Fill Task Force (FFTF) of TF2 Division has a holiday challenge for you. You're invited to participate in the first annual Holiday FFTF Extravaganza. All you have to do is attend regular FFTF fills from December 1 to December 31, and you'll be entered to win some insane prizes. On New Year's Day, the FFTF captains will count up all of their fill attendance forms and pick three winners to receive some of the biggest prizes eGO has seen to date (all prizes are in-game items): 1st Place - Max's Head 2nd Place - Unusual Company Man (Effect: Steaming) 3rd Place - Earbuds There is also a new shiny forum...

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/Kq2fs2v.png" height="20%"/> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> After a long and grueling season, Team EDGE has made it to the WEL Grand Finals for Battlefield 4.Taking on the top teams in Battlefield, Team EDGE maintained a stellar record in regular season, beating other top teams in the playoffs to make it to the Grand Finals.Team EDGE faced off against Uranus Gaming on Dawnbreaker and came out victorious with a 2-1 score. This win clinched a berth in the Grand Finals against Nyx Erebo, which will take place Sunday, November 30, 2014.</div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Article: Meowcenaries | Image: Dangle | Edited: Jon It's the holiday season and first up on the list is Thanksgiving if you're in America. Canadians, please enjoy an extra thanksgiving from us. Everyone else in the world, have a great time and great food on us. We all need a break from gaming once and a while, so why not have a turkey leg with it? Even after food and words of gratitude, there are the Black Friday sales, grab 'em while they're hot. We Leadership and News Team members at eGO hope you have an awesome thanksgiving feast and time with your families. Happy Thanksgiving!</div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Article: Frosteyy | Image: eGO | Edited: TheJollyRoger The Community Managers are excited to announce the induction of the former Lights Out roster, North America's elite competitive Battlefield 4 roster. Lights Out has established itself as the best North American BF4 team with a perfect 8-0 regular season for CEVO Season 4 and a respectable 2nd place finish in the CEVO Season 5 Grand Finals. Joining Team EDGE are the following: Jonathan "Frosteyy" Melo Team Manager Kurby "wintahhh" Jones Team Captain Trevor "Jeck" Eckler Conor "Ecks" Eckler Juan "Fractal" Gonzalez Richard "Sickwit" Jenkinson Matt "Kidney" Wong Howie "Servo" Krupsky Andy "Yadn" Hutchings Ty "Fly_High"...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Article: Caelestis | Image: Druid | Edited: TheJollyRoger Sharing in goals and values, helping others, and being open to meeting new people are the cardinal elements of a good community member. Very few people in this community exhibit those elements more than Insomnia Princess, who has quickly become a cognizable figure in eGO. She has served with distinction as the Team Fortress 2 recruiting advisor, PSC processor, a member of the New Member Experience, a writer for the News Team and the Newsletter, a co-host on the podcast, and the current division leader for the TF2 Division. She has reached across divisional lines to strengthen the community as a whole and has done so...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">We are very excited to present eGO's new logo to the community. This has been a project the Community Manager team has been working with Versed on over the past few weeks. The final product can be seen across the board on all of our Social Media services and will be added to our website in the coming days. The icon itself spells out EDGE and has a star in the middle to bring the brand together. The star has been a part of EdgeGamers Organization since the start and it only made sense to add it in. The shape is modeled after our tags =(eGO)= to keep that consistent feel without current members and audiences feeling we detracted from our roots. We will be releasing a kit to...