Well this is a very happy occasion, our great friend and founder Balor has just had his new baby boy born on June 25th at 12:40pm, his name is Martin James Donohoe, and he weighed 7lbs 14oz.

Click here for the pics of the new baby, don't want to put em on the front page incase it slows down the load time for all of you poor guys who have modems, :-P

Ok, well Xanthian will be offline for 2 weeks to a month due to him moving to the great state of Colorado, :-)

Secondly, I will be up in the er, i guess ok state of Maine from Thursday until Monday night, i'll still be checking up on the forum, but I won't be able to join in any of the Battle.net fun and games, :-(, just like that poor reindeer rudolf. O well, but whatever, thats all the news right now that i have for you guys, o and Maine isn't such an aweful state, but hey, we all make fun of them, :-P.... but serriously it is a wonderful state, hehe... o well too much rambling here, so keep a voting and we'll get some D2 games going when i get back, mabey carth will like to join with his new druid i helped him start a couple nights ago, :-P

Well thats all, may the Storm be at you back always.

Well great news gang, Warcraft 3 has gone GOLD!, yipee!

June 13, 2002
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos goes Gold!
Clear your calendars, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos has gone Gold! The game, which has initial orders in excess of 4.5 million copies worldwide, will start shipping to retailers worldwide on July 3. Read more about it here.

Well i'm starting to save up for it... *looks in wallet*, yep going to have to start to save, :-)

First of all, Xavier has requested that he now be known as Xanthian, and being the grand ol guy i am, I accepted his proposal, so now the once great Xavier, shall now be known as the great Xanthian!... yeah a little too much emphasis there but whatever.

Secondly, i'd like you all to check out this cool site wich is devoted to making mods for games like Warcraft 3/Starcraft/Diablo 2 and the like. Their website is: http://macwebdesigns.tv/dd/index.htm I've decided to join their site and help out with making some of the mods, so check by the page occasionally to see if they're updates and such, :-)

Lets see, thirdly, i will be out of town from this friday, until sunday or monday night... i'm not sure when i'll be back, but i will be back at the latest by monday night, so if you guys have anything pressin to talk to me about, get that too me soon, before i head out of town.

Ok, we have an old member re-joining our ranks, Xavier. He was in SR a while ago, and is rejoining so msg him on icq when you get a chance, his uin is: 30145062

We also have another new member: Rendralisk, his icq is: 160633537. Msg him and try to get some war3 games together and such.

Also, we have lancer leaving our ranks.

But onto more important news, its come to my attention that many if not everybody here is basically inactive, well now that my final exams have ended and i have more time on my hands, i want to try to get some games going in d2 or something, or mabey get something going on a free server in UO. But whatever, i want everybody to be checking the forum more, going to try to set games up there. Also, if you have irc get onto our channel #StormRaiders on gamesnet.net

Well, just updating some stuff on members etc. CotroneoZ name has been changed to Zodiac.

Also, please vote for this site for another website award: http://www.diamondwebawards.com/cgi-bin/clwork.cgi?id=3879

Thx... thats all right now, my life is a little hectic due to final exams/AP's/SAT II... but once all that shit is done its summa time, w00t!... so the fun times will begin to roll eh?

Well thats all for now.

Well I just found out that Balor, in his great wisdom and kindness, entered our site into a design award called the Golden Web Award. Today i found an e-mail in my inbox, stating that our humble little website has won an award for design, yipee eh?

Well here's a little section from the e-mail i recieved:

Congratulations!
Storm Raiders Gaming Community has been reviewed and chosen to bear the 2002-2003 Golden Web Award. If this section has been checked, you will find the address below where you may pick up your award.

Well here is a little look at the award that the site won:

Also we have a new member that has joined our ranks, CotroneoZ. He will be the new Warcraft 3 section leader. Welcome into our clan, he is in the process of getting ICQ, so once that is done, i'll have it posted up on the members page.

Also, unfotunatly Balor will not be wit