Chicago, USA – April 1st, 2008 -- SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of innovative professional gaming gear, today announced the acquisition of ClanBase, the world’s most active online and gaming community site.
The acquisition has been completed successfully, with ClanBase changing name to ClanBase Steel effective immediately and adapting to the color scheme and logo of Steelseries.

might not come as a surprise to many of ClanBase Steel’s users after the close collaboration that ClanBase Steel and Steelseries has had for many seasons, as well as Steelseries dedication to the gaming scene. What for many has been seen as something only waiting to happen – Steelseries has finally moved beyond peripherals and are now invading the actual computer and the online tournament community in a much more engaged way. The first step was seen with their Steelsecurity software and their action today really speaks for “going all in” in the virtual space.

More than 25.000 gamers play a match through ClanBase Steel every day. The matches are organized in established leagues and ladders, spanning a multitude of games and gaming platforms. In total more than 2 million gamers across Europe have registered accounts on ClanBase Steel.

“We see this is an exciting new business opportunity, which allows us to grow our brand, expanding competitive gaming as a genre and working even closer with the community” says Kim Rom, VP of Marketing for SteelSeries. “We have had some very interesting business meetings in Amsterdam over the past weeks, we definitely look forward to continuing these.”

Later that day...

ClanBase has decided to abandon a long list of games including Counterstrike and Call of Duty games.
Today marks the last day of these games on our popular site with this controversial move.

We have – in light of the development on the computer gaming side – decided to include all games with a Q. The entire Quake series will be supported, so will ET Quakewars of course. Command & ConQuer will also have great support and several members are believed to have spotted Kane in Amsterdam during the recent symposium. We also wanted to support Kwari – because it sounds like it starts with Q. We had long discussions about Bejewelled but finally came to the conclusion that there were no Q in the word – and no matter how we said it – did it sound like there were a Q in it. A sad – but true reality.

Which means...

I myself cannot be bothered they dropped certain games since I am a quake player, but I'm sure Clanbase will upset a load of people who's favourite game has been flushed down the toilet. Is it a wise decision? I guess the only way to find out is to experience it...