The Blue Line News

Two competitions about to commence

Just to let those of you that don’t often look in the Competitions and Games Forum know that we shall be soon commencing two competitions in which any registered user may take part: 1) BatRacer Formula 1 (Season 3)2) Playoff Prediction League Here are some more details on each: 1) BatRacer Formula 1 (Season 3)Season 3 of our popular Formula 1 racing game has two spots available for anyone interested in joining. The game is quite like a management game but the player takes the role of a driver rather than team leader. Players have to work with their teammate...

Eastside Hockey Manager 2007

Eastside Hockey Manager 2007 Patch 3.0.4 Released

This patch for EHM 2007 can be downloaded HERE. Release Notes Mac Users The Mac version of the game has it’s own database files. To get the data update provided with the patch, you must delete these, so that the game will recreate them and the data changes will take effect. You can do this 2 ways(after installing the patch): 1) Open a Terminal window and type: cd “/Applications/NHL EHM 2007” ( or to wherever you chose to install the game. ) “./data_refresh.sh” 2) Double click the data_refresh AppleScript in the application directory. Also, a bug fix means that game...

Stanley Cup Final Wallpaper – ADM Style!

With the start of the Stanley Cup Final only five days away, there’s never been a better time to download CatchUp’s ADM Wallpaper and follow the the series’ progress in style on your desktop! For the remaining two teams in the Playoffs, CatchUp has snazzed-up the logos with a flame effect. It all looks very cool! If you have Windows XP you can even setup the wallpaper so that it will automatically update the series score after each game has been played! You find more information about downloading the wallpaper and how to have it automatically update here: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi … 3398#33398

TBL is back online!

After about 19 hours of downtime, TBL is back online! Our site was hacked via a security hole in our Blog System. This hole has now been removed and we should now be more secure. As a result, users will no longer be able to upload images via the Blog System; users will have to use an image hosting site instead. All of the mayhem of the server crashing (due to the hack) caused part of our database to become corrupted. This is why when we came back online last night, errors came up whenever someone tried to post. I’ve...

TBL Gets a Great Review in Computer Games Magazine!

Our website is famous! In the March 2007 edition of Computer Games Magazine, The Blue Line and some of its contributors received a glowing review on their work! Thanks ever so much to CGM for taking the time to look around and review our website. It’s a great feeling to have a big publication compliment our work! Here’s the review in full: MODSQUADS by Brett Todd When You Care to Ice the Very Best Eastside NHL Hockey Manager 2007 is one spectacular game all on its lonesome, but it’s more than worthwhile to download and install some of the mods available...

Join Set Five Of TBL Pick Em Fantasy Hockey

For those of you who have been playing in our (roughly) monthly Pick Em League you’ll see that Set Four has concluded! We are now taking teams for Set Five which will work from all new lists by batdad and must be posted before the first game tips on Saturday! Check out this link for scoring and more details! This fun and free NHL fantasy game is open to everyone registered for the Forum; no matter if you’ve played with us yet this year or not so why not fill out your team today?? • Choose 12 Forwards, 8 Defenseman, 4 Goalies from...

New NHL Avatars

The community’s resident avatar man has produced some stunning avatars for our Forum. Over the past six weeks, CatchUp has been taking requests for avatars in his cool ADM (After Dark Multimedia) style. Now, to top it off, he’s released a set of ADM-style avatars for each NHL team. To add one of these avatars to your TBL Profile, follow these simple instructions: 1) Edit your User Profile by clicking on the Edit Profile icon in the black bar above the site header (it’s in the very top right of the screen).2) Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on...

EHM Blogs

TBL is very proud to present a brand new site feature: EHM Blogs! Now you can share the highs and lows of your EHM team with the rest of the community! Not only that, but fellow users can post comments and suggestions about your blog, allowing you to get feedback and suggestions on how to improve your team. Your blog may also be a good way of publicising your EHM projects and for keeping the community up-to-date on how your project is going. This will allow you to get feedback on your projects. Our EHM Blog System can thus be used...

The Blue Line: Now More Than Ever

So, does the announcement of development of the EHM series mean TBL is shutting down? Hell no! Now more than ever it is essential to keep TBL running, to keep providing content for people to add to their games, to keep talking about and playing the game. So we ain’t going nowhere. Not any time soon. Please people, continue to come to The Blue Line and celebrate this great game and the friends from across the world we’ve made by running the site. Not for us that run the site but to keep the dream alive. Do it for Graeme and...

Eastside Hockey Manager 2007

SI Games Indefinitely Halts Development Of EHM

Sports Interactive have announced today that they have indefinitely halted developing EHM (see SI’s announcement below). Despite being the best hockey management game ever, there will most probably never be another version of the game we all love. This is truly tragic news. The reason for this? Poor sales caused by pirate copies of the game being available on the internet via torrent downloads. According to Miles Jacobson (SI Games Managing Director), whilst the claimed number of downloads of the game via these illegal torrents rose, the number of sales of legitimate copies remained static. The availability of the pirate...