A Russian man, Nikolai Sazhin (Mathematics student, 19 ) has been crowned world champion in the novelty sport of chess boxing afterknocking out a 37-year-old German policeman Frank Stoldt, who served as a peacekeeper in Kosovo until recently.

The chess part is speed chess, which can be quite difficult and heavily favors those who are well practicedin strategy and able to make decisions faster.Players are given 1 -5 minutes each to win a game, which generally does not result in a checkmate outcome.

Wouldn’t this heavily favour brawn over brains? I mean any half decent bruiser could just avoid getting checkmated right away and then knock the nerd out in the first round. All you need then, is someone who can stand a single round in the ring and isn’t a complete moron. Your pure bruiser fails the knockout, then gets suckered into a scholars mate. But a bruiser can punch you and keep punching, while in chess you’d have to wait for him to move before enacting your Master Plan.

The best strategy is to set up complex positions on the board that require ample thought
on the part of your opponent and watch his or her time expire.

The world just cant get enough of MGS 4, and Konami is making sure that they keep the gamers happy. Last time they released an MGS encyclopedia, this time they are releasing a few new camo patterns. The Camo Patterns are called Raging Camo and Lauhging Camo.  Eorogamer states that:

The new ones are Laughing Camo and Raging Camo, both of which were quietly released last Thursday. Enemies will apparently laugh or rage more when they see you wearing them.

Both patterns can be accessed by going to the Extras menu from the title screen and navigating to the OctoCamo page. Both are 153KB downloads and join the Digital Red and Digital Blue camo patterns added in mid-June.

In case you haven’t checked the Extras menu recently, it’s already home to a pair of downloadable songs for use on your in-game iPod. Click here for the full story.

David Hayter is a really lucky man, he has a good career as a screen writer and has voiced one of the most legendary gaming characters of all time aka Solid Snake. Recently at an event gamers interacted with David Hayter, who told them that he was a little disappointed with the MGS 4 climax. The following is his official quote:

“I didn’t agree with that [Snake flinching at pulling the trigger on himself] at all, and I begged them to change it, but I think it’s still in the final game… I didn’t buy it at all. I think it’s weak for Snake to be killing other people and then not be able to kill himself when it’s time. If he knows it’s time, then it’s time.”

 Well he may not agree with the end…but I know millions of Solid Snake fans who were…your opinion.