SK Gaming's photographer Rafal "pigvomit" Lagowski has to be one of the world's best photographers of losers. Inside you will find his best photos capturing defeat in 2008.

As last year, Fragbite has prepared a very interesting gallery featuring the major happenings of 2008 with a little commentary.

PGS Gaming, one of the most successful organisations in the world of CS, has decided to give the game a second shot with a new lineup.

2009 will bring changes to the SK Gaming Quake 3 squad. The ESWC Masters of Athens champion Shane "rapha" Hendrixson is staying with SK while John "ZeRo4" Hill and Karl "fooKi" Johansson are retiring.

The fall of the Championship Gaming Series keeps producing new CS 1.6 teams in North America. Jax Money Crew has announced a new roster with former compLexity and Team 3D stars.

Pre-season reshuffles continue as the players ousted from EG's American team were welcomed with open arms by Frag Dominant.

2008 provided the most interesting Quake 3 season in years. Many hot players had unexpected downs and many players became hot unexpectedly. The article in front of your eyes rounds it all up.

SK Gaming's Warcraft 3 manager Min-Sik "reis" Ko has revealed many interesting details about how teams work, why WC3L could not go on with big teams and how the player salaries are bound to drop in 2009.

NGL ONE shifts its focus away from teams to solo players, announcing a 24 player league. Team-based play will remain, but with small prize money and a 3v3 system.

Esports is a phenomenon so young that few have been worried about its heritage. So far, when one of the main esports titles was dropped by one tournament organiser, another took over and carried the torch. But a day will come when it ends. What then?

After boldly taking over SK Gaming, Sasha Tsapaev steps out of the office to the floor of a real battlefield, the WCG floor.

I fail to understand how anyone can dislike ESL's decision to change the match system in the Warcraft 3 Champions League. It was the best thing to do at this point in time.

This year's last 1on1 interview features The Fifth Race and arguably the best Warcraft 3 player in history, Jang "Moon" JaeHo.

Robert "RobbaN" Dahlstrom replaced Dennis "walle" Wallenberg in the strat caller's seat at Dreamhack and lead SK Gaming to their greatest victory this year.

After Dreamhack Winter, SK Gaming pipped fnatic to become the third highest-earning team in 2008.

Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski was too much for the Dreamhack dark horse Kevin "Strenx" Baeza in the tournament's final.

SK Gaming defeated Meet Your Makers and advanced to the final of Dreamhack's tournament where they will play mTw. It will be a revenge match for SK's loss in WCG final.

Magnus "fox" Olsson beat Fan "RazerJ" Zhibo 2-0 to take third place in the Dreamhack Winter 2008 competition. Interestingly enough, he is also in the CPM final.

The French newcomer Kevin "Strenx" Baeza has won himself a berth in the Dreamhack 2008 final after beating Magnus "fox" Olsson 2-0. He will meet Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski, who disposed of Fan "RazerJ" Zhibo in the other semi final.

The usual suspects have made it to the semi final of Dreamhack's Quake 3 tournament. av3k will be meeting RazerJ and fox will be playing Strenx, who got Spart1e to slashquit out of the event.