Hi everyone,
Summer is over, but we have you sorted with more hot e-sports events in Europe and North America, including a change to win a spot under the warm sun of Las Vegas! Under the spotlight today, two major competitions coming on ShootMania and TrackMania:
Hello everyone,
We are glad to announce a new update for ShootMania: Beta 1.3.
1. This update brings a new mode called “Elite Exp”. Thanks for helping us testing the modifications made to the Elite mode. We’ll gather your feedback in a week to give us the time to see what you are able to do with these novelties:
If you choose to play the standard Elite game mode, it remains available in ManiaPlanet.
2. For map and mode makers in ManiaPlanet, we have also made available new blocks for Storm. It’s now possible in Elite (Exp) to add checkpoints to decrease the goal’s capture time.
And for those of you who are still hesitating towards using the level-editor, you can see in the following video thatit’s very easy to use:
Of course many others changes have been done, here is the full changelog.
The month of September arrives and with it the new Belgium Canyon Car skin and sticker pack!
Enjoy the skin even when you’re not racing with the monthly desktop calendar.
All available for free from the ManiaPlanet Store. Get online and represent your country!
Get ready for an awesome planning if you’re going to PAX PRIME (Friday August 31st to Sunday September 2nd) or intend to follow what is happening over there! Be ready for some event stream: http://shootmania.ign.com/
Congratulations to all participants for their proposed maps. We had a lot of good content to review from!
Here is the map making contest winner:
– NitroGuy with his Elite map : “Rockets and rails”. He’ll come over @PAX to talk about his map and how he made it!
Runners up are below: Thanks for your contribution! Your names will definitively be cited while at PAX in front of the crowd at the Ubisoft booth.
| Undeadmanbearpig |
| Snowboardmaniac |
| Stratto |
| MacDuffman |
Go check out the live round of 8 qualifier: http://ign.com/ipl/shootmania – should last for 1 hour or so.
IGN Sports League is now officially supporting ShootMania in the US!
They are currently streaming ShootMania PAX Qualifiers on their IPL site. Next live stream starts tomorrow @5pm Pacific Time http://www.ign.com/ipl
They also have a dedicated ShootMania page: http://shootmania.ign.com/
There is a current Beta key giveaway on their site: http://www.ign.com/prime/promo/iplshootmania
Here is the latest recap of the first round of qualifiers that happened yesterday in case you missed it! http://www.ign.com/ipl/all/news/alphamales-b2g-and-elephant-move-on-in-pax-shootmania-qualifier/
Competition ShootMania Maps requested for PAX ! Get a chance to be sent to PAX to present your selfmade map and see pro-players fight on it!
You have awesome maps ideas in mind you’d like to create for ShootMania? You want to see pro-shooters players running around your map while at PAX? Then, this competition is made for you! Send your map and join the ShootMania event @PAX!
Competition Maps:
Send the maps to the following email address: shootmania@ubisoft.com (email will be accessible beginning of next week)
Please use the following style for your mail subject “Maps – PAX – *your nickname*” and specify in the email your first name, last name and city you live in, else your mail may be missed.
Full rules can be found here: http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13344
Hi everyone,
It’s been an incredible ride since the beginning of the ShootMania alpha and beta, and today during the Ubisoft Press Conference taking place at GamesCom in Germany, we took a moment to look back at what YOU, the players, have achieved.
But this is just the beginning, and we have great plans for the development of ManiaPlanet, big news that will bring players of TrackMania and ShootMania from all around the world, together in their love of competitive gaming. We’re not quite ready to talk about it yet, but you can already set the date: in November of this year, during the ESWC competition in Paris, Nadeo will hold a press conference to tell you more about it.
In the meantime, we continue to work very hard on the development of ManiaPlanet and on taking over the world of competitive gaming and eSports with ShootMania and TrackMania. Lots of things are happening every week on ManiaPlanet, so watch this space, and don’t hesitate to share the spirit around you !
From 15th to 19th, ShootMania Storm will be at Gamescom in Köln (Germany), the world’s largest traid fair and event high light for interactive games and entertainment.
On August 15th, ShootMania will be part of Ubisoft press conference dedicated to online and esport line up.
During this conference, 2 top teams will play a showmatch on ShootMania Storm Elite mode, which will be shoutcasted by the famous Joe Miller.
