The  Ultimate Woodsball League , the brainchild of longtime professional paintball player, team captain and industry member Tom Cole, continues to grow in size and scope, as it has been recently announced that the league would host its first event in MALAYSIA! Sanctioned by the Asia Scenario Paintball League, the first UWLM event wil be held in May under the scrutiny of Tom Cole himself. READ MORE for the official release from the Ultimate Woodsball League Malaysia!

Volcanoes, car-break-ins, lightening and other unpredictable factors have simply made a mess of the opening event of the 2010 Millennium Series in Malaga Spain.

Check out the video from Social Paintball Here .

Eric Engler and company have built some amazing looking paintball guns, from replica Thompson submachine guns to AK47s to machine guns. When Tippmann released the electropneumatic, super-fast Phenom, it was perfect for Engler’s customization.

The PSP has released the layout for the Chicago Open, to be held June 24-27 at the legendary Badlandz! If your team plans on playing, a little practice on this layout seems like a great idea, so head down to the local field and set it up!

Dan Bonebrake has been involved in paintball for a long, long time—and in a way you could say he’s done it all. Dan played tournament paintball at the highest level with his team Phantom Force in the early to mid 1990s; he’s been a field owner; he’s had his own paintball product line; he created and ran one of the biggest amateur tournament series’ in the U.S.

Bob Long, one of the most successful players, captains and marker makers in the history of paintball, recently talked with us about his experiences with .50 caliber, what new products he and his company are bringing out soon, how he thought his team would do in Huntington Beach and where he thinks the industry is! He let us in on a lot of new information about his upcoming products and had a lot to say about his newest ventures! Head over to www.Tournament.PaintballX3.com to see it all!

Dynasty started their NPPL season off right this past weekend, winning the opening event of the league’s 2010 campaign.

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Check out these exclusive pics we got of Angel’s new Product Line.

Saturday 4:30AM: The X3 crew is in Huntington Beach and ready to provide you with all day updates today and tomorrow.

Greg Hastings, the pro player behind the GHTP paintball video game franchise, let it be known earlier that the latest in his paintball video game line, Greg Hastings Paintball 2 (for the XBox 360, Wii and PS3) is now available for pre-order at Game Stop!  Greg has been working pretty feverishly lately getting all the top players into the game and making it his best yet!

Kee Action Sports is a leading paintball manufacturer and distributor of paintball equipment, apparel and paintballs.

The NCPA is hosting the 2010 College Paintball National Championship presented by Empire and DYE this weekend at Central Florida Paintball in Lakeland, FL.  Top college teams from across the country will be competing starting Friday at 8 AM, with matches broadcast live on the internet through FCS Broadband.

If you’re heading to Huntington Beach, one of the many things you’ll want to check out this time around is a very limited, very attractive new Dynasty edition Ego from Planet Eclipse! As if the Ego10 wasn’t already an amazing paintball gun, with practically every bell and whistle a player might need and the reliability and performance good enough for…well…Dynasty, now a custom Dynasty edition emblazoned with the team’s Dragon logo is ready for prime time!  READ MORE to see the official release from Planet Eclipse!

We’ve been hand picking our favorite photos from the first day of Paintball 2Xtremes 10+ years ago, until this very moment. Check out Part One of our Favorite 500 Photos of All Time !

Sewell, NJ, April 6th, 2010 KEE Action Sports LLC. KEE Action Sports announced that they would be consolidating the Technical Support area to the Missouri Distribution Center.

In a statement sent to PaintballX3 today, Vanguard announced that they would be in-attendace at Huntington Beach showing off their impressive Creed Marker, as well as a few other products from friendly companies like Pinokio. This follows on the heels of a very successful demo day for the Creed at the Aftermath arenas last month, and is a clear indication that Vanguard intends to push the Creed hard in 2010!

Blue, of EMR and Blue’s Crew fame, sent us a little note to remind us that pre-registration for Castle Conquest will soon come to an end, and that the game itself will happen April 24 and 25!  Castle Conquest is the craziest and most insane game in paintball, and this year’s edition is definitely not to be missed!  READ MORE for all the information!

Birmingham, UK, April 6th, 2010 – - Angel Paintball Sports is proud to announce a partnership with professional paintball team Indianapolis Mutiny for the 2010 season.  As Mutiny hits Huntington Beach this week for the NPPL season opener they will be using the Angel A1 FLY to dominate the competition.

The NPPL is thrilled to announce that the 2010 Surf City Open Huntington Beach tournament is SOLD OUT!  The event cap of 120 teams was hit right as the registration deadline ended on Monday March 26th, with dozens of teams stretching across seven different divisions for 7-man and 5-man squads.

Furious and the Identity Paintball organization announced today that Identity has joined the rapidly growing list of teams that will use Furious products like their accurate, light and affordable barrels and their nine volt and AA batteries for the 2010 season!

Valken’s Dealer Party at the rapidly-approaching Huntington Beach NPPL will allow those in attendance a glimpse at the 2011 line of Valken gear! The party will take place Thursday, April 8 at the Hilton from 6pm until 9pm!  All paintball dealers are welcome to attend, Valken says, but an RSVP is required. READ MORE for the official notice from Valken and the email address to RSVP!

After receiving their recent Most Valuable Team award at the MPP Ia Drang game in late March, Fracture put that momentum to good use, heading north to Paintball Central in Greensboro, North Carolina for Modern Warfare 2. In an intense game that drew over 200 players on a gorgeous Carolina spring weekend, Fracture, along with guest stars from Pinokio Hoppers and the CFOA, played hard and took home their second consecutive Most Valuable Team award, as they helped the forces of the United States defeat the Russians by a slim 60 point margin!

Sewell, NJ, March 31st, 2010 KEE Action Sports LLC.

I’ve been around computers a long time. My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20. This computer was so simple that it didn’t even have a hard drive—it used cassette tapes to store its operating system and any work you did on it.

X3:  So you’ve been back in paintball a while now and Valken’s a well-known name. Did the process of coming back into paintball go according to the plans you made? Gino :  You know, it did!  It was a lot of hard work I must say, but this industry is still vibrant! Everyone says it’s dead but that’s not true

Help Ronan ride for a great cause!  Donate to Ronan’s participation in the Zimmerman MS Bike Ride to benefit Multiple Sclerosis research and assistance for those striken with MS! Yet another great paintball player stepping up to help a great cause, and we can help too! READ ON for the full statement from Ronan himself.

The world of paintball got the news many were waiting for last night at midnight. The National Professional Paintball League and Paintball Sports Promotions have merged and were bought out in principal by ESPN.

Thanks to the continued support of Tippmann Sports, Fox Paintball, and PbNation we will be showing paintball to the largest audience we have ever reached. 32 million homes in America, Canada, and Mexico . Our Paintball show will be available on both Dish Networks ( ch 230 ) and DIRECT TV ( ch

Fracture Competition Paintball program just finished with Millennium Paintball Productions(MPP) IA Drang scenario March 27/28 at Paintball Charleston. The team finished with getting Most Valuable Team(MVT) award and also was on the winning side of a hard fought game. With 123 players on both the American side and NVA side Fracture couldn’t get MVT going solo we would like to share the credit with both Port City Militia(PCM) and South Side Killaz(SSK) who helped us doing missions and holding the crossing.

Introducing one of the best upgrades you will ever get for your Intimidator, the Yakuza USB OLED board from Tadao.

All the news and information you could ever want about Oklahoma D-Day can be found int he monthly editions of Stars & Stripes. Check out the new issue (March, 2010) and read about the Omaha Beach Face-lift and tons of other D-Day related articles.

Check out Dan Jordan’s Sunday photo gallery from Phoenix PSP.

The Ultimate Woodsball League (UWL) held its second 2010 event last weekend in Mesquite, Nevada.

Check out this video of Bob shooting .50 caliber at last week’s UWL event.

Real Action Paintball is proud to announce our new line of soybean-based, environmentally friendly paint…with bright fill and an unbeatable price! RAP4′s new Field Paint will be rolling out to fields and stores in the next few weeks, but you can pick up a case early, direct from RAP4. Available in your choice of white shell with bright white fill, and green shell with green fill, RAP4′s Field Paint will revolutionize how you train – and how often you can play!

Occoquan, Virginia, March 25, 2010:  The Paintball Business Journal, the most respected source for business information and education available to paintball pro-shop and park owners worldwide, is pleased to announce the addition of Tom Ghee, one of the most knowledgeable paintball businessmen in the industry, as a featured columnist! Ghee will provide informative articles and other information to paintball store and field owners in each and every issue of the Business Journal beginning in April, 2010, and will also write feature articles for PaintballX3 Magazine, the parent company of the Paintball Business Journal.

Pev and the entire Pev’s Paintball family are joining the fight against Melanoma by supporting the March on Melanoma Foundation! The Foundation’s goal is to raise awareness for the prevention and early detection of Melanoma and to support local families undergoing treatment of the disease. Pev is currently helping the organization in their search for sponsors for the March on Melanoma 5k Trail Run & Walk on May 8, 2010 in Haymarket, VA. READ ON for more information!

Josh Davey, Chuck Hendsch, Aaron Tholey, Ryan Moorehead/Tim Montressor, Bruce Goldinger, Tom Cole, Alex Fraige, Larry Motes, Matt Sossoman, Drew Templeton, Eric Dearman, Jeff Stein.

The National Professional Paintball League is excited to announce that the world’s top paintball photo website, PaintballPhotography.com, has signed on as the official photo sponsor of the NPPL for 2010.  PaintballPhotography.com founder and owner, Gary Baum, will also be joining the NPPL team as the official league photographer for the upcoming season.

Planet Eclipse was kind enough to send this to us first.

Planet Eclipse, one of the most popular and well-known companies in modern paintball, has recently launched a new website.

The 2010 PSP Phoenix Open has just wrapped up and what an amazing event it has been with over 100 teams battling it out on 6 fields and a trade show laid out on the grounds outside of the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.  Congratulations to Edmonton Impact for winning their first ever PSP Pro Championship!  They fought off Tampa Bay Damage who came into this match undefeated for the weekend.  Chicago Aftershock placed 3rd and LA Infamous placed 4th.  The teams are already looking forward to facing each other again at the PSP Chicago Open being held at Badlandz Paintball Field in Chicago June 24th – 27th; a four-day event.  READ ON for a full breakdown of the top finishers!

The Ultimate Woodsball League’s ten-man style of competitive woodsball play will be hosted in the United Kingdom by the National Paintball Fields in Bassetts Pole, allowing European teams to get in on the intense action! With four dates starting in April and an inexpensive entry fee, practically any European player can put a team together and compete! READ MORE for the dates, entrance fees, contact information, official website and more!

Sunday 4:15AM: We just added 100+ photos from Phoenix Saturday. Check them out: http://tournament.paintballx3.com/

In a release distributed today by Pinokio Hoppers, the company has announced their sponsorship agreement with the best-known scenario paintball team in the world, Blue’s Crew. Blue, Deuce and the rest of the Crew will shoot custom, blue Pinokio hoppers for the entire 2010 season and represent Pinokio at all the games they attend.

Our on the scene coverage continues this morning (Saturday, 3:15AM local time). We just added photo galleries HERE and updated coverage HERE

We’ll be here live all three days in Phoenix updating from our remote computers on scene. First updates already posted.

As the dates for their Huntington Beach tournament rapidly approach, the NPPL have released the latest version of their rulebook for seven-man paintball, which is now available via the league’s official website, www.nppl.com .