Tribes: Ascend, the free-to-play first person shooter from Hi-Rez studios, has been added to season 3 of the North American Star League. The NASL is a professional e-sports league that features the games StarCraft II and Heroes of Newerth. This is the first league to take in Tribes: Ascend, and really the first league to feature a Tribes game in a pretty long time (TWL aside).

“As developers, we are excited to offer a fast paced, high skill-ceiling shooter for this generation of gamers.” says Todd Harris, Hi-Rez Studios COO. “Tribes: Ascend and NASL are a great fit in terms of dedication to competition and high-quality, high-engagement content.”

Players interested in joining the Closed Beta for Tribes: Ascend can register for an invitation at www.tribesascend.com

A new Tribes Video. Yeah that’s right, Starsiege Tribes. The game came out in 1998 and people still make videos. It is that good.

Check out this pretty awesome stop-motion animation based on the Gears of War franchise. This is one of the reasons why Legos are the best toys ever.

If you are like me and have a Solid State Drive and a lot of Steam games, you might be wondering how to put most of your games on a typical hard drive while still having a few of your most played games on your SSD. Steam does not officially support installing games on different drives, but it is possible to “trick” it in a way to think games are installed in its drive when they are actually on a different one.

If you know your way around the NTFS file system you could always just set up junction points or symbolic links. For the rest of you, there is a nice utility called “SteamTool Library Manager” that will configure all of that for you. Of course there is always a chance that something could go wrong, so be sure to read up on all the instructions posted at the program’s website.

Hopefully installing games to different drives will be a supported Steam feature in the future, but for now this is a pretty easy way to make it work.

We got ourselves a new trailer for Planetside 2. It is probably not all that interesting to anyone other than the Planetside hardcore. Still, I found it to be pretty neat. I am already enjoying myself a ton playing Tribes: Ascend. Once PlanetSide 2 goes into beta as well I am going to be in PC Gaming heaven.