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The CPL moves up in the world .. literally

Ion Storm have a new neighbour in their penthouse suite in the Dallas Chase Tower

Pro-gaming tournament organisers The CPL have moved into a swanky new residence in Dallas, taking over part of the Ion Storm offices at the top of the impressive Chase Tower, which is the fourth tallest building in the Texas city. Well, renting out their office space to another company is certainly one way for Ion Storm to make back some of the money that they burnt on multi-million dollar flops Daikatana and Dominion.

According to the press release we got, "The CPL will occupy one of the two sides of the ION Storm offices, to use for press conferences, corporate meetings, sales presentations, and general operations". They have moved in with some impressive hardware as well, setting up "a deathmatch area with multiple viewing screens" which includes a whole network of Gateway 1.5GHz Pentium 4 systems with Logitech peripherals, Razer Boomslang mice and Ratpadz mousing surfaces. Nice...

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