Not long ago i wrote an article about the "Quake 3 Arena Road Tour" back in 1999.

It was a promotional tour for the yet not released Quake 3 game. The big black and evil looking bus drove to the south and west in the USA. The bus itself contained 8 lan stations ready to play Q3 in an early version.

My article is in german, sorry its too much work to translate, but you get an idea of the road tour if you read my used main visitor sources of this report.

Jason "loonyboi" Bergman blogged the tour 4 days long for bluenews

Dennis “Thresh” Fong visits the tour

TexorcisT was pissed that the tourstop in Austin University had no promotion t-shirts for him. Ten years after the tour i found out why, according to the bluenews blog one tourstop before a paket with t-shirts was missing or stolen :)

Trillian visited the tourstop in Portland, Oregon and lost against her man with 1 frag in the competition, excuse "i had no sound" :D
It seems sometimes the site is down, then wait a little while.

And we have Russell “RadPipe” Lauzon, he was on the last tourstop in Los Angeles near the Activision Headquarter, on the last final tour party, and he helped to get the equipment out of the bus, buhu :(

my picture gallery in 4 sections

pictures:
- Katherin Anna Kang (wife of John Carmack) with Dennis “Thresh” Fong
- Victor “Makaveli” Cuadra

Update: As announced on the Clanbase Radio show, here are the players that are invited to this first Quake Live 1on1 EuroCup.


This online tournament starts at 4th October and will end 20th December. 24 people will battle it out in 4 groups of 6 players each, and the 2 victors of each group will face each other in a double elimination playoff system.
20 people from different nations were invited directly, so that leaves 4 spots. During this week, 8 players will battle it out for one of these precious slots.
Details for mappool and playergroups will follow.
In the meantime Clanbase released the groups of Clan Arena Open Cup (5on5) for this fall.
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Clanbase presenting a radio show this evening to announce details for the upcoming fall season´s EuroCups 09, including Quake Live.

The EuroCup Invite Show will include interviews with people from ClanBase and the gaming scene, hosted by DJ Nex and DJ Ins0mnia. Pre-Show with DJ Neur0 starts at 11:00 CDT.


Join #EuroCup for the radio, and #EuroCup.live to chat with other players about EuroCup announcements.

Source: Clanbase

There is another project as a alternative to Openarena, called Q3Min (Minimal) based on the free and advanced ioQuake 3 engine.

The goal is to released all content under GPL, and of course for free, except the maps. Check the Q3Min Hompage and their forum.

"This is a community project managed by dedicated Quake III Arena enthusiasts. Its purpose is to provide a freely distributable minimal version of Q3A that is fully compatible with the original game created by id Software. We wish to make a package that can use different mods as well as custom maps made for the original game Q3A. The package should have a reasonably small size for easy downloading.

We do not intend to stop when the first fully functional package is released. We would like to implement, test and maybe permanently integrate different enhancements suggested by people on Q3A forums. We want to make a game even better than the original!"

Background (dont know if its true)
It seems the background is a conflict with the chief from Openarena, Leilol. A team did 80% of new textures for Openarena but it wasnt Leilol not enough GPL´ed, so this team is now working on their own Quake 3 Version.

You can download the dm-maps seperatly, and rename all the .zip to .pk3 in a directory with the dos command "ren *.zip *.pk3"

GL & HF to Q3Min

So whats up with Quake Live. It seems the Quake Live Community is very creative. Some collected foundings.

Freeze Tag Petition
There is a FreezeTag Mod Petition for Quake Live. The petition was started two weeks ago to get 10.000 signatures with the goal to integrate and add the popular Q3 Mod Freeze Tag into QL. You dont need to register to give your voice.

Quake Live Cartoons
Ser has started a comic series with known scene players in our forum. Maybe there will be more drawings in the future.

Quake Live 2 Go
Slava Markeyev released "ql2go", a project to start Quake Live from a USB stick with the help of linux. Read all about it in the Quake Live Forum and QL2Go project site.

Ingame Demo Viewer
HyperNewbie has built a demo-viewer mini mod. The minimod shows a demo menu. Grab it in the Quake Live Forum.

On QuakeCon last saturday was held a public demonstration with Rage chief designer Tim Willits and Matt Hooper. Every QuakeCon visitor got the the chance to see 30 minutes of Rage in a demonstration. Of course no fotos or videos were allowed.
Afterwards there was Q&A with the Rage developers.

It seems official content from that demonstration will be released in the near future to public.

Eyewitness reports

bluegamer.net
Runs on casual hardware, no questions about the mutiplayer wre answered

bigdownload.com
Story, great character models/realistic lightning and animation, car racings, shouting level

reddit.com
Visitor answeres questions

Trailer, highres screenshots, developer video interview

Besides the good looking Rage QuakeCon trailer there are new highres screenshots available, also a interview clip with Tim Willits, the spreaded Rage scenes are from QuakeCon trailer.

It made known that the developers will work on the Rage startinglevel to the end of production. This guarantees the best look on the new id tech 5 engine, so the developers will have the full knowledge of the new engine.

Activision released the Wolfenstein 1.1 Patch client/server for PC.
This update adresses some small fixes, including balancing problems and adding the sound menu. There are no performance tweaks yet.

Patch is available via autodownload or manually, client & server.


Some players celebrate the release (celebrate picture), others dont (video).

The retail mp of Wolfenstein was identicall with the leaked beta before the patch.

Hannes, the creator of ETQWpro, started working on competition mod WolfPro (Source).

In the meantime the young Endrant Studios who is responsible on the multiplayer part of Wolfenstein, announces layoffs just on release day of the retail version (Source). To let people go is not uncommon in the gaming industry after a title is done.
Bu the question is, could the studio deliver future updates with less people.

It seems there is a time delay on the press conference. VOD of id´s Press Conference & John Carmacks Keynote Speech will be recorded by QL.TV and later uploaded on QuakeUnity.

Tune in for the IGN Live Stream
There is also a Liveblogging at Kotatu

Press Conference is over, as usual the conference was very short
- Wolfenstein RPG for iPhone was presented, release is now on AppleStore
- Marty Stratton talks about Quake Live. Leaderboards will having a comeback in Quake Live
- Todd Hollenshead said we get new infos about Doom 4 on the next QuakeCon 2010 :(
- New Rage trailer was shown. Trailer looks nice looking, much shooting & driving rocks and is now available on Gametrailers

John Carmack´s Keynote Speech, summary and video is up on QuakeUnity

SK-Gaming has interviewed Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager. vo0 is known from duels with fatal1ty in the Painkiller competitions and for his success in various CPMA cups.

The iview is about his recently victory in Quake 3 CPM tournament this year on the Dreamhack Summer lan, beginner tips for CPMA, why he thinks Quake Live will not succeed, Quakeworld, his clan fnatic and many more.

SK-Gaming: So what do you think the future of Quake Live is? Will it become like Quake 4 or will it survive for ages like Quakeworld is doing right now?

Vo0: I don't know, I think its, I hope it will, I hope it will be very popular but I think after a while people will just go back to Quake 3. Because Quake 3 is still technically better then Quake Live because it has many more features, Quake 3 CPMA, then Quake Live and people will get bored of Quake Live easily, so I hope you know I really hope that Quake Live will make it but its gonna be a tough challenge.

Vo0: "People will get bored of Quake Live easily"

Last Friday a Wolfenstein Multiplayer version was leaked and found a way to the internet. This version is dated 22nd July.

id`s Community Manager "idwolf" Sokal now released as a reaction a quick statement.


Source: crossfire.nu

Its been a long time that a buy game on id Tech 3 is released. Dark Salvation is developed by Mangled Eye Studios, the devs are coming from the Quake 3 Modding Community.

The design of this singleplayer game is kind of mystic & occult, the game itself is a low price game.

According to shacknews Dark Salvation was almost seven years in development, the player controls a dead woman in a underworld.

Dark Salvation Homepage

Just to keep you up-to-date on Wolfenstein, Gamespot gets the first official interview about the multiplayer part, Q & A with the lead game designer Matt Wilson of Endrant Studios.

Summary:
- Axis vs. Resistance
- 3 gameplay modes: Objective, Stopwatch and Team Deathmatch (of course no FFA...)
- 3 classes: Soldier, Medic and Engineer
- Wolfenstein MP includes all the standard weapons from the singleplayer mode, some of the more exotic veil weapons will not be in the multiplayer

According to crossfire.nu on friday there will be another mp interview release on wolfenstein-zone.com with the focus on competitive gameplay.

Related link
New Wolfenstein & Rage Info

Sad day for all Unreal Tournament fans out there. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games founder, Technical Director, and CEO says that Epic will not release a full retail version of Unreal Tournament in the next several years.

Tim Sweeney
"Unreal Tournament is certainly a major long-term priority but we're planning not to release a major retail game in the series for several years. So we have that effort somewhat on hold while we work on a few other initiatives."

Sweeney did add that Epic will continue to support Unreal Tournament 3 modding efforts, and is planning to "open up the engine to more people to use freely" sometime in the future. He even jokes that Unreal Tournament IV and V could be primarily made by the Unreal Tournament Community.

Source: G4 Video Interview

Second screenshot for the Xbox Live Arcade version of Quake III: Arena and Addon Team Arena has been released, the port is developed by Pi Studios. The game is called Quake Arena Arcade, formally known as Arena Gate.

Screen 1 shows ingame menu with various new maps, new Screen 2 shows a ingame scene on a known Team Arena FFA map.

An update for Quake Live was released this tuesday, 21th. This minor update adresses mostly bugfixing.

It´s the second time that an update arrives on tuesday, see details for first tuesday update on July 14th.


Links: Offical Quake Live Forum Post - Twitter

It took me quit some time to summary up all the latest informations about Raven´s Wolfenstein and id´s Rage. So i have something to put in you and give it away give it away give it away now. After that you will be well informed.


Bookmark this
Wolfenstein - www.wolfenstein.com , Twitter, RSS Feed
Rage - www.aftertheimpact.com , Twitter, RSS Feed

Arena Live is now released as a browser game only for Linux OS and Firefox browser.
Arena Live is the free Quake3 Clone Open Arena, based on ioQuake3 engine, an extendend version of the id tech 3, with less bugs and more added features. Open Arena comes with own built content like new textures, models, maps, weapons, and sounds.

In the future Arena Live will support other OS. For playing you need a quick registration on the site. It´s more like a demonstration and experiment i guess, haven´t tested it by myself.


Source: heise.de (german IT site)

Warsow 0.5 is nearly release-ready and parry & lokirulez sat down with the Warsow dev members jal, Vic, thelawenforcer and SolomonK to talk about the new version in detail.

For your attention: you can playtest the actual beta release by registering on warsow.net forums and download it yourself. (win & linux, version 0.5 T5 from 23.05.09)

In over 25 questions the Warsow dev team gives you a overview of the latest additions and tweaks.
The Warsow 0.5 interview gives answeres to gametypes, gameplay changes, media, renderer features, WarsowTV, developement cycle and dev team.

After the sale of id Software there are more interviews held with John Carmack.

About QUAKE Live.

How about the focus on some of id's less big budget games? So, thinking specifically about the iPhone stuff that id's been doing, the mobile stuff, and also projects like Quake Live. Is that going to continue to be a focus, not only at id, but at ZeniMax in general?

John Carmack: "It probably stays at about the level that it is right now [...]"
CEO ZeniMax Robert Altman: "[..] and about the other part of your question about Quake Live, it will go on unchanged as it always has. It's something we are supportive of."
~ joystick.com interview

Hollenshead said ZeniMax's acquisition will allow id to grow its internal teams, staffing up the groups working on the next Doom — which will now be a ZeniMax game — and the Quake Live team, for starters.
~ kotaku

Interviews with John Carmack
jostick.com on the acquisition
venturebeat.com Interview

friend of mine gave me a link to tweak my vista connection. here its is. i will try it.

Windows Vista / 2008 Tweaks - Tweaking Vista TCP/IP settings for broadband internet connections
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=2574

Gaming Tweak - Disable Nagle's algorithm <--

Marty is posting on the QUAKE Live forums:

Blood Run was built for Duel competition, but we're also enabling it for play in Free for All and Team Deathmatch.

Speaking of TDM, we used the QUAKE Live down-time last night, adding duel map Blood Run, to also make a change to the Team Deathmatch server configurations for higher skilled players.

We've had a number of requests to have weapon respawn times in Team Deathmatch set to 30 seconds. This creates gameplay that is difficult and frustrating for newer or lower skilled players, but we understand the value for players and teams that are higher skilled and particularly understand the nuances of TDM strategy and gameplay.
To accomodate both types of players, we've set our higher skill matches to use the requested 30 second weapon respawn times (these matches will be labeled 'pro TDM'), but left lower skill matches unchanged (these will continue to simply be labeled TDM).

This is good news ESR readers!

megaman and Spirit present: A first alpha version of the Quake Injector.

The Quake Injector is a tool to download, install and play Quake (1) singleplayer maps from the Quaddicted.com archive. Ever been annoyed by an excruciating installation process? Could not figure out how to install a certain map? Well, this tool makes it a piece of cake. Simply pick the map and click Install.

Features

• All Quake singleplayer maps ever made (900+ in the database)


• Simply pick a map, click install and play


• Filter, sort, browse to find your favourite map


• Automatically installs dependencies (e.g. Quoth)


• Cross-Platform


• Free, Open Source Software, released under the GPL.

Check it out: http://haukerehfeld.de/projects/quakeinjector/

In the next months id Software will released as promised the spectator feature QLTV for QUAKE Live similar like GTV for Quake3, Q4TV, ETTV for Enemy Territory.

In the meantime Quake-Live.tv starts working their shoutcasting stream and VoD site for QUAKE Live Tournaments. The site is in beta status right now but a few matches are already online.

The team behind "QLTV" (see) is known from QUAKE Wars shoutcasting EnemyTerritory.tv, including GreasedScotsman as a shoutcaster and well known person in the Quake Wars Community (trickjump movie series, QuakeCon shoutcasting etc).

The team still searching for writers, promoters and shoutcasters!


Links: Quake-Live.tv - Quake-Live.tv on Twitter - #ql.tv & gamesurge #ql.tv

Last weekend the crossfire.nu lan CC6 took place in the netherlands.

A_Spec has uploaded the important games as vods. If youre not into Enemy Territory check at least the grand final between Mamut.si and ButtonBashers, shoutcasting as usual by Tossspot.

http://www.quadv.com/news/261-cc6-vod-s-are-up
registration is nessary

A new Wolfenstein teaser demonstrates the particle cannon. Enemys getting vaporized yay. As usual there is no info if the weapon will be in the multiplayer. I hope it´s for the singleplayer only ;)

teaser @ shacknews

the longest development joke in the gaming industry is over...

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58519

QuakeUnity offers now download/streaming video shoutcastings from the recent played European Duel League # 7 with audio commentary provided by tastyspleen.net, peewee & DaHanG.

See some Quake2 action between two of the best European Quake 2 duellers, PURRI and Damiah, fought for the title of EDL season 7!

Winner Bracket Final Match, 3rd map: q2dm1 aka The Edge
Super Final, 1st map: q2duel1 aka Aerowalk
Super Final, 2nd map: q2rdm2 aka The Chastity Belt
Super Final, 3rd map: q2rdm3 aka The Frag Pipe

Thanks to the uploader Claudiu. VoD matches are also available on wipido.com.

If you're already on QuakeUnity and you're into Quake 4, check out the new uploaded match videos from WSVG 2007, WSVG 2006, ESWC Finals 2007, QuakeCon 2007 AllStarGame NorthAmerica vs Europe TDM 4x4.

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Valve announced today that it will run a 24-hour free trial for its popular multiplayer shooter Left 4 Dead this Friday.

The trial will begin on Friday at 12:01 AM GMT (7:01 PM EST Thursday), and will include the recent Survival pack content, which introduces a new multiplayer game mode and two additional Versus campaigns.

Those who wish to give L4D and the Survival Pack a try may now pre-load everything needed to play with no obligation to purchase. A free Steam Account is needed.

Personally I hope to see some known ESR faces in L4D to fight against the zombie hordes, join the already existent ESReality Steam Group (41 members!) so we can play together.

UPDATE Valve extended the free friday 24-hour trial of Left 4 Dead (PC) through the night until Saturday at 5 pm GMT!

FileFront has been bought back by the original founders from Ziff Davis Media and will NOT be shutting down.

After learning about Ziff Davis Media's plan to shut down FileFront at the end of March, the original founders of FileFront made the decision to buy it back from Ziff Davis Media.

We're happy to announce to the gaming community that as of today, April 1st, 2009, FileFront is a completely independent company again and is no longer part of Ziff Davis Media. All previously suspended services should be active and working again. We thank Ziff Davis Media for their cooperation and willingness to keep the site and community alive.

And no, this wasn't an April Fool's joke.

Information: welcome.filefront.com
Thanks Ravager

After the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco was held, Wolfenstein´s publisher Activision released three new trailer and fifteen screenshots. Singleplayer content is shown.

shacknews

Peter Sokal the community manager for id Software who is working closly with Raven, Endrant and Activision, have set up a news page for Wolfenstein.
twitter.com/idWolf

Sokal said in a forum posting "If you were a fan of RTCW's multiplayer you can expect to see many of the elements that made it such an awesome experience, along with some new ones."

The popular online zombie shooter Left 4 Dead from Valve gets a new downloadable content called "Survival Pack". Microsoft now confirmes the release on April 21. The expand content will be free of charge for both PC and Xbox 360 gamers. The Software Development Kit (SDK) will also follow this spring.

The upcoming L4D Survival Pack will add a new multiplayer game mode called, Survival, as well as two new campaigns for Versus Mode.
In the Survival mode players attempt to survive endless hordes of zombies on at least 12 maps, and allow the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns to be played in the multiplayer Versus mode. The Survival mode will be like the the zombie mode in Call of Duty: World at War.

Valve also said that a Critic's Choice Edition of the game will be in stores this spring. The Critic's Choice Edition will include all the content introduced in the L4D: Survival Pack as well as the original game.

Wolfenstein Site updated
A lot of new information is now on the heavily updated wolfenstein.com. You will find news, storyboard, new pictures, a trailer and a community forum. See the artworks about mp classes.

The site is censored for me and all germans so use the firefox browser addon Vidalia for example to fix this little problem.

New Trailer & Gametrailers TV Special
This is what we wanted to see months ago, a new trailer and many ingame movie scenes, with video interviews from Raven developers, running time 21 minutes. See it all!

New trailer 2
Gametrailers TV World Exclusive in 4 parts. For an analysis check out crossfire.nu.

Wolfenstein 3D on the iPhone
Open Source Wolf3D for iPhone/iPod Touch

The Electronic Sports League European section announced today their first QUAKE Live League.
Best thing is you can start right now playing in the Quake Live 1on1 Ladder, the signups are already open! To participate you just need to enter your Quake Live name in your ESL profile, the new matchmaker function helps you to find an opponent easily.

It seems some surprises will follow for this test ladder, the ESL said: "The new Quake Live 1on1 Ladder is a very special ladder with lots of events. So it isn't the simple Ladder you know from other Games. Stay tuned for more information in future."

Mappool: qzdm6, qzdm13, tourney4, tourney6, tourney7
The matches will be played "Best-of-One" with a timelimit of 10 minutes.

IRC: #esl.quakelive
Source: esl.eu/eu/quakelive

A little posting on Linux Games about QUAKE Live lets gamers know that Linux and Mac support for the free shooter is on the way! Just in case there was any doubt.

Currently it only works on Microsoft Windows (Firefox & Internet Explorer) but according to the login info work is in progress for Linux and Mac support. Yay.

The German TV channel GIGA, which is known for its casual and eSports coverage broadcasting from different competitions, has terminated all operations with immediate effect. CEO Stephan Borg announced that just minutes ago in a blog post on the station's official homepage.

More to read under mymym.com/en/news

Obsidian wrote on Clanbase:

After the monthly statistics I thought there might be some interest for a yearly overview of the work of our Cheat and Abuse department. I gathered the statistics for cheat cases stored on ClanBase for 2008.

First some totals
In 2008 we suspended 7032 accounts with a total suspension period of around 21000 years, which makes the average suspension 36 months. Not every human is unique, some might return with a new account, some get suspended multiple times. A few people have been suspended 4 times, however most players are suspended only once.

Overall numbers
The number of suspended players per game might not come as a surprise after last months rampage. Call of Duty 2 leads the ranks with 41%! The entire Call of Duty line of games makes up for 55% of the suspended players.

Most people are cheating in a public server!


See more pie cake pictures (cheats per game / type of cheats / cheats per day) and read the conclusion from Obsidian|CB.
If you really want more statistics hopp over to Crossfire and read the article from MalteseFalcon.

Cheat on \o/

Source: Clanbase

According to the Official ETQW Community Site, there are new demos on demand over at EnemyTerritory.TV from the recent season 3 of CAL's 6v6 Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars league.

Those aren’t the only ones you can view, so hit EnemyTerritory.TV to watch some seriously heated clan action in Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars!

Friday, 21 November, 2008

Pappy-R wrote on Planetquake.com

It was on this day back in 1999 that id Software announced the "gold" status of Quake III Arena, which meant that the game had passed testing and was considered complete and ready for replication and retail distribution. In other words, the game was done and soon to be in our hands! That was nine years ago and this game has refused to lie down for anyone, just like the Quakes before it. Quake III is still being used for competition, it’s still being expanded by the creative community and is still played daily by a whole lot of folks, including yours truly. So on this day I'd like to wish Quake III Arena a very happy birthday indeed!

If youre registered, leave a comment on planetquake.

Daniel "Elchtest" Pohl from Intel who works on a Ray Tracing grafic engine for computergames, is presenting his new homepage about QUAKE Wars Ray Traced.

As a id-Software fan and developer of Quake 3: Ray Traced and Quake 4: Ray Traced it wasn't hard to foresee a QUAKE Wars Ray Traced.

His page includes, beside new screenshots, a video which shows QUAKE Wars with a Ray Traced engine. It´s available in 3 different video resolutions.
These small demonstration video was first presented on the Research Intel Day. You were already able to download the high resolution video since august.

Video download
About the video



Releated links
Introductive articel by Daniel about Ray Tracing and Gaming

The first part of these video shows scenes of Quake 3, Quake 4, and QUAKE Wars. Recorded at Daniel's presentation on the Game Developers Conference Feb. '08

other news
Ray Tracing again (esreality)
Ray Tracing and Gaming, One Year Later (esreality)

thanks to Pr3dator!

The open source project Game Scanner is a lightweight, non-bloated and low-memory footprint software for easy browsing of your favorite or any supported internet game servers without starting the game itself.


If you are searching a thin game browser in the way All Seeing Eye was, check it out. This mostly unknown browser is ready for gamers. I use it some months now and i don´t regret it. Qtracker in comparison has more features & filter functions of course. The choice is yours.


Download link

N0jji posted on readmore.de a little interview with Cyrus "proZaC" Malakeni.

Nick: proZaC
Name: Cyrus Malakeni
Clan: Team Excello
Ex-Clans: SK, NiP, QPO, p1mp

N0jji: Hi proZaC, can you please tell me who you are, your gaming history, what clan you play and age etc..
proZaC: Yo, my name is Cyrus Malekani I'm 23 years old. I've got an extensive gaming history but lets just say I was big in q3 and right now I'm in team excello.

N0jji: For how long did you play seriously?
proZaC: Seriously huh ... Well I'd say from 99 to 03

N0jji: What do you think about swedish players, what about their aim and configs?
proZaC: Well the swedish players have always had great aim. Top of the line.
But their configs ... that's a weird question I dunno? I guess they're good?
N0jji: =) swedish players must rox because you rox to
proZaC: Haha well sweden has always had plenty of high caliber players to offer the e-sports world.

N0jji: What your parents thinking about your gaming?
proZaC: Well at first my dad was sceptical. _Very_ sceptical. But since he realized he couldn't stop me from playing he kind of eased up on me. But in the end any parent is proud of their offspring as long as they're trying hard to accomplish something.

N0jji: Tell me please your biggest successes.
proZaC: Well LA7 hands down and then EC5 - which earned me the title player of the year of 2002. I'd says that was the peak of my career.

N0jji: What is proZaC's day? Can you describe one of your usuall days?
proZaC: Depends - weekdays is mostly like, get up at 8 get some breakfast, go to work Finish at 18, go and work-out, get home at like 21.
Eat my dinner, watch something and then code til 23-00
and then it's goto #1 it's more exciting than it sounds

N0jji: Why you take nickname "proZaC" ?
proZaC: Well first it started out as a fakenick, back in the quakeworld days. Then the nick kind of stuck to me and I think it describes me as a person

N0jji: What in life do you do besides Quake? What other interests do you have & do u have a girlfriend :]?
proZaC: Can't say I got a girlfriend but some friendly girls.
Well right now I just started karate again after 4 years so I'm pretty fired up about that. Hanging with my boys and just go cray-cray on the weekends I guess.
Playing games is still a passion of mine, but there isn't that much time left for it xept for mariokart with the homies

N0jji: Your favorite map & weapon?
proZaC: Depends, 1v1 or 4v4? or 2v2? =)

N0jji: all =)
proZaC: 1v1 - ztn, I guess
2v2- dm6
4v4 - ospdm5
I like all weapones, it mostly depends on the situations
But sg and lg are favourites
and rg ofc

N0jji: Who are the top 5 Q3 players in your mind? Who is your favorite player and why?
proZaC: Such a tough question =) czm, fox, purri, 2gd, [EYE]RoLLER from back in the days
I'd say [EYE]RoLLER cause he used to buy me booze before I was eligible (sorry if the cops hunt you down because of this bro!)
And he's a helluva a great guy =)

N0jji: What mode do you like most, duel, tdm or cpma ?
proZaC: tdm - hands down.

N0jji: What is your mouse, keyboard, headphones and mousepad? an wich settings you use?
proZaC: settings, whaddya mean? There's tons of em. mouse - Logitech mx510
Keyboard - dunn some random one with good buttons.
Headphones are sennheiser something something.

N0jji: and your pad?
proZaC: A cloth steelpad dunno the name

N0jji: btw i have a Steelpad QcK mini =)
Ok thank for you time & i wish you GL HF in the future of you eSports career =)
btw i hope you play Quakelive cya and ty 4 the interview
proZaC: Np, cheers bro

Download: Config from proZac >>

The programer arQon from CPMA has released an new updated version of the quake3.exe (CNQ3 v1.43 RC, rev 1702).
For details on all the changes until now you can read this.


Download CNQ3 v1.43 RC

Before this years QuakeCon faded away in our memories, here are a few videos from the event.

Enemy Territory.TV overs us the Carmack Keynote and Press Conference plus the Fatal1ty interview.

Now see what QuakeUnity deliver us, note that from time to time some new videos arrives. The shoutcast of the videos is provided by Michal "Carmac" Blicharz, Rod "Slasher" Breslau, Brian "destrukt" Flander and Stuart "Django" Ewen.

Carmack Keynote QuakeCon 2008

1v1: Griffin vs. ZeRo4: 3 Maps (new)
1v1: ZeRo4 vs. Rawfuh: 2 Maps
1v1: ZeRo4 vs. Rapha: 2 Maps
1v1: ZeRo4 vs. Chance: 3 Map Set (Chance kicks Zero4 in the Lower Bracket)
1v1: Rapha vs. Cypher Map2 (contains short Cypher Interview)
1v1: Fox vs. Cypher: Map1
1v1: Chance vs. Carnage Map1
CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map1
CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map2
CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map3

Roger from QuakeUnity:
And don't forget about the QuakeLive 1v1 and CTF finals videos. The 1v1 finals video has been edited and just needs to be rendered and uploaded. It will contain all the in-game footage of the 2 maps played between ZeRo4 and Cypher along with video from main stage and award ceremony.

Press conference from id Software & Keynote speech from John Carmack

Live Blog @ IGN
Summary @ Quake Unity
Key points @ SK Gaming

• id Details Rage Gameplay

Game Videos:
Wolfenstein extended trailer
Wolfenstein PCGames video Interview
Rage extended trailer

Articles
Carmack Video Interview' @ Gamevideos - John praises and bashes consoles
Which id Game Mosts Interests You? @ Voodoo Extreme - Poll with Rage, DOOM IV, Wolfenstein, Quake Live
id & EA Interview @ Gamasutra - they talk about their relationship on 5 pages
Quake Live Preview @ GameSpot
d Software's Tim Willits Talks Rage @ Gamespy

QuakeLive website with a redesign
Wiki description of QuakeCon



Some Coverage

EnemyTerritory.tv - Coverage of the ET:QW Tournaments, streaming video, event blogging
[ technical problems, they filming the matches from monitors, oh boy... ]

Picture gallery Wolfenstein booth babes @ Big Download

QuakeLive 1v1 Tournament

Top players in QuakeLive Tourney: Zero4, Carnage, Chance, Destrukt, Blt, Griffin, Cypher, Fiend, Cl0ck, Rapha, Vo0, Daler and Fox

Fresh from the E3 comes the exclusive debut teaser from Wolfenstein and the announcement of the Wolfenstein RPG mobile game. The teaser is very short in time so dont blink with your eyes.

Wolfenstein Trailer (in HD)

id Mobile will released over EA Mobile a mobile game in november called Wolfenstein RPG.

Wolfenstein RPG - first pictures

if you missed it, Game Informer article with 11 pages of infos & pictures on Wolfenstein

Here is the new Rage trailer that id Software showed off during EA's E3 2008 press conference. EA Partners will publish the game, in development for PC, PS3 and X360. Its been the second trailer from RAGE since 2007 (all Rage footage).

In an E3 Video Q&A with id Software it is said that EA Partners will only distribute the new ip / brand RAGE. At the moment it is a one game deal.

Second Trailer gametrailers (in HD)
Second Trailer shacknews

ESWC COMPETITION SCHEDULE


Sunday, July 6 - Final Bracket

The "last invitation match" for ESWC Finals in San Jose between Czm vs Zero4 can be found here.

11:00 Semi Final: Avek vs Cypher
12:00 Semi Final: Jibo vs Fox
Demos

14:30 Semi Final: Jibo vs Avek
16:00 Final: Cypher vs Fox
Demos

Cypher showed amazing skills in this competition, won the maps pro-q3tourney4 and ztntourney1 in the final against Fox. Alexey "Cypher" Yushanevsky wins the ESWC Masters without any maploss in the whole tournament!

» Final Standings

1. Alexey "fnatic.Cyph3r" Yushanevsky - $2500
2. Magnus "LLL.Fox" Olsson - $1500
3. Maciej "srs.av3k" Krzykowski - $1000
4. Jibo
5.-8. sk-Zero4
5.-8. EG-Czm
5.-8. Noctis
5.-8. Fooki

Jibo, Cypher and Zero4 secured the three places/tickets to the ESWC Finals.


» Demos
ESWC site - All demos and configs from saturday
Cyberfight.org - Some demos & config pack

» Picture gallery by sk-gaming | Rapha & Fooki from behind, Zero4
The Second Batch
Sunday

» Coverage Articles
Paul "CZM" Nelsons Rough Ride by Gillz
Tom "griffin" Walls Cold Front! by Gillz

Thanks to all at ESR who uploaded demos of the earlier games, giving comments and do analyses on the games.

Source: eswc.com/masters

On the minimizor website is a new mouse tool availible.
for all wicked fetish mouse users. check it out.

DInput is written to change the use of Windows API coordinates
(in games or applications) to Direct Input coordinates.

Direct Input has got the following advantages compared to Windows API coordinates:

Features:
» No pointer ballistics (impossible cause of acceleration)
» It's designed to work on high resolution mice (win coordinates aren't)
» Faster (in theory)
» Different and mostly smoother feeling
» Because of the above reasons it mostly helps against negative acceleration

http://www.idcation.com/?lang=en&X=news&id=139

News from Intel's Ray Tracing expert Daniel "elchtest" Pohl.

PCGH has the first half of the presentation from the game developers conference in february 2008 in video and pics showing the process on Quake 3, Quake 4 and now ET: QUAKE Wars!

http://www.pcghx.com/aid,646920/News/Video_sh...Quake_Wars

Posted by rambo_ando on his gamespot blog

A study by an Australian University has revealed that video game addicts don't suffer from social problems, shyness, or self-esteem problems.

According to media outlet News.com.au, Dan Loton from Melbourne-based Victoria University undertook an honours research project to determine if there was a relationship between games, social skills, and self-esteem. Loton found that there was no direct connection between excessive game playing and social skills and self-esteem. According to the study, when it comes to game addicts, only 1 percent suffered from shyness.

However, it wasn't all good news for hardcore gamers.

GameTap announces the new free game they are offering as of this week is the Deus Ex: Game of the Year edition, ION Storm's cyberpunk RPG/first-person shooter first released in 2000.

Download

Hint:
Unfortunately, with Gametap you can't play Deus Ex in widescreen, because that requires an INI edit (and the GameTap version doesn't have any INI files). You also can't use any mods.

For someone who wishes to take advantage of those things, $10 for the game on Steam is a good deal. Buying it on Steam or finding a copy on CD would be required to play in widescreen or play with mods.

According to developmag, Kwari the online game that offering 'cash for kills' has run out of money and gone into receivership.

Kwari, the 'cash for kills' online FPS which offered players the chance to win money by betting on their performance, has closed just a year after it launched.

The company behind game, designed in the UK but managed by Australian web firm Micro Forte, has reportedly gone into receivership. Last year in 2007 they celebrated 22 years of existing. The business had expected to make money by asking players to pay for bullets used during gameplay, but clearly the company ran out of ammo itself.

In February i made a news post called Kwari: $20K Jackpot Won.
The Official website kwari.com has been down for 2 weeks, and the page kwarithegame has very little information to offer.


Kwari @ Wikipedia

Just found a little youtube video from Luckyfool about the changing patches in StarCraft from past to present.

He mentions the 1.08 patch and showcases some funny things in the early Starcraft years.

Moral of the story is, SC wasn't perfectly balanced right out the door, but Blizzard's hardwork and patience molded it into the greatest RTS game on the planet.

I´m not a SC player but i had my fun. For SC players it is a must to activate some memories.

The Massgate Website now offers the promised update for World in Conflict that brings the RTS game to version 1.008.


Download
FileFront
Gamer's Hell
The Patches Scrolls

ESR FAQ about WiC

Running With Scissors released for free the multiplayer version of Postal 2: Share the Pain, the multiplayer expansion to their controversial FPS Postal 2. Go and Share the Pain if you like.

Share The Pain uses the Unreal Graphics Engine and contains 14 multiplayer maps, 25 playable characters, 11 crazy weapons and 4 different gametypes (Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, "Snatch"/CFT/pick up a woman, "Grab"/collect a series of power-ups) .


In anticipation of the release of Postal 3 in October 2008, the multiplayer element of Postal 2 has been made available for free.

Originally released in 2004, the Postal series of games gained notoriety for it's high levels of violence and stereotyping and as far as we know, is still banned in Australia, Brazil and New Zealand.


Wiki Entry about Postal 2 STP

A new update adding support for Steamworks is currently available in beta for Day of Defeat: Source, the World War II online action game from Valve.

Main features are 51 new achievements, player avatar support and detailed player statistics, new particle effects and a nemesis-revenge freeze cam that was taken off Team Fortress 2 development and the map dod_Palermo which is a remix of the most popular community map 'dod_salerno'.


All owners of Day of Defeat: Source can test it by starting the steam client and look under your "Not Installed" games list.

It has already been confirmed that CS:S will be updated. The beta is already in progress; if you opt in for the current Steam client beta, you will see both the DOD:S beta and CS:S beta appear in the game filter of the server browser.

Source: ign.com

In the April's issue of PC Gamer, Electronic Arts have let slip that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is in development.

After the first trailer (see Clanbase) and the opened beta registration for Red Alert 3 (every owner of CnC3 expansion Kane's Wrath gets a beta key), EA showed us now a second trailer.

Hell March Trailer on gametrailers.com



The official page is now online (blog, artwork, screenshots).
Gamesradar had the chance to do a little preview.

What we know so far, the Real Time Strategic RA3 will have three factions and a full co-operative storyline and the game will be released on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. And maybe it will kick ass after the average game Tiberium Wars.

Drinn posting a news on sk-gaming called Valve laughs at "PC gaming is dying" story.

A hot topic in the gaming community has been the "PC gaming is dying" claim that some of the retailers and game developers like Infinity Ward ( CoD 4) and Crytek ( Crysis) have been saying for quite some time.

Shacknews interviewed Valve's big boss Doug Lombardi, who said in the very beginning that Valve actually laughs to at that claim:

"I mean, I think, we sort of laugh at it. Because we've been wildly successful--we're very fortunate, you know. Our games have all done really, really well, Steam has taken off and become this whole other business for us, Valve has never been in better shape--and yet everybody is talking about how in the PC world, the sky is falling. And we're like, we've been doing this for 10 years now--actually 12 years since the company started, 10 years since the first game came out--and we've never been in better shape, financially or otherwise. The company is over 160 people now--it was 20 people when we shipped Half-Life. We've got multiple projects going--we were always a one-project-at-a-time group."

The Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars 1.5 game update is now available for download both via the in-game updater and download mirrors.

Patch 1.5 includes various fixes and changes including UI and HUD changes, new cvars and spectator modes, ranked server changes and XP fixes as well as exploit fixes.
The full changelog 1.5 in comparision with the long ago released beta patch can be found here.

The final version of the Competition Mod from Splash Damage is available within the coming days. Aspyr are currently putting the finishing touches on the Mac version of the patch.
If you have the Steam version of Quake Wars, you can get the update automatically by simply starting up your steam client.

Also available is the Linux Client & Server Patch.
And as promised the new SDK Mod Tools.
Huge list of download mirrors can be found on community.enemyterritory.com.

*new* ETQWPro Mod gets a fresh release over night, v0.55 Beta includes fixes and is compatible with patch 1.5.

I found a riddle and labyrinth map for q3. try to find your way through the map and get to the next room. actually its a nice idea to do something different with q3.

Download the map Sodomia, load "map sodomia"
http://jamster.ath.cx/defrag
http://jamster.ath.cx/defrag/download.php/sodomia.pk3
http://www.prost-germany.de/maps/sodomia.pk3

Walkthrough with Pics
http://ripvanfish.ri.funpic.de/sodomia/sodomia.html
Video Walkthrough
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4infy_solut...videogames

a blogger wrote on gameriot:

Lately, I've been getting back into Quake 4, watching some CTF games and playing relaxed duels with friends, and I've been hearing murmers of a new mod for the game that may give everyone what they've so desperately needed from the game.

Introducing GT-Revolution. From the news on the site, the mod tauts quite an impressive list of changes and advantages it has over the dominant "Q4MAX", such as improved Netcode, a CPM-style of movement, improved brightskins, and much more.

You guys can view a trailer for the newest beta of the mod (to be released later this year) here (http://www.quakeunity.com/file=2563). I'm actually pretty excited about the mod as Quake 4 really was a great game....on LAN. You can visit the mod's page here (http://gtr.quakedev.com).

source:
http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/GameRiot-T

Steve Gibson wrote on shacknews that Duke Nukem Forever, the game, actually exists.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52423

The Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 Website announces the availability of the MinionWorkz Vehicle and Map Pack, adding free content and an updated objective system to the realistic teambased World War II shooter. In addition to the original pack there is a subsequent beta update with more new stuff.

The MinionWorkz team are already well know in the Red Orchestra community for their high-quality and innovative add-ons for the game.

After remembering some old Halo I Fun Videos in the past, where players had fun with vehicles, physics, bugs and stuff, gameriot point me to a youtube vid collection from gloob.tv with Halo 3 vids.


Nowadays games had generally a good physic engine, like Half-Life 2 is physic demonstration only, but way back when Halo was "the" game i was impressed by all the stuff what can happened in the game.

What flick do you like the most?
The best Fan-Made Halo 3 videos on gloob.tv

One of my favorite is the "attack" by a flying traffic pilon/cone, ownd.


Im searching this well know stuntman video from Halo I, where players on vehicles jump from a cliff into the sea :]
I found it, Warthog Jump: A Halo Physics Experiment

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC, PS3, X360) developer Infinity Ward was shocked to discover an unexpectedly high level of piracy in regards to the PC versions.

The developer is quite happy with the recent number of PC owners playing the game online, the studio's community relations manager "fourzerotwo" expressed amazement at how many of those players were running a pirated copy of the game.


Besides the discussion of piracy und pc gaming,
I know there are a few "cracked servers" without cdkey authifications out there, but its new to me that with a fake or generated cdkey it is possible to play on online game servers.
I think Infinity Ward was a little bit sleepy in that matter, cdkey authification through masterserver is just standard nowadays.

What do you think of the pc piracy topic, will piracy attack pc gaming? Will developers only do console games in the future because they fear piracy?

Related links:
Infinity Ward Amazed by Rampant PC Piracy [shacknews.com]
Call of Duty 4 pirated all to hell — bad for the industry, good for gamers? [Mahmood Ali - blog on wire.ggl.com]

DuRuS on ClanBase did a review of Soldier of Fortune: PayBack. He looked at the singleplayer and multiplayer and came to the conclusion that this game is really bad.

Also there is a link to a video review to Gametrailers.com. I watched many good and hard critics reviews there.

Conclusion
To conclude I feel this game is simply terrible, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, unless you are one sick minded individual that likes to go around shooting people’s arms and legs off. But if you are like that, then probably you could get more fun out of something like GTA or Manhunt. For those Soldier of Fortune fans out there, I would recommend sticking with SoF:2.

http://clanbase.ggl.com/news.php?nid=277585

Ultraviolet Productions, the makers of Wolfenstein movies have released QuakeWars Impressions Trailer. Its their first movie project in Quake Wars.
The trailer is only 43 MB in size, contains nice frags and features a new custom map by iceweasel. The frags are taken from Team Speed-Link, Team Dignitas, 4Kings, Kompaniet and Stofftiere Online.

Type: Frag Highlights
Length: 1:16
File Size: 43Mb
Release Date: Monday Januray 7th 2008
Video Editing: Hannes
Codec: x264
Frame Rate: 30 FPS
Resolution: 1280x720

Source: crossfire.nu

In this clip, you'll see "a classic Super Mario Bros. level recreated in 3D, using the Doom engine." Though the skin may not be perfect, it's definitely a conversation piece to say the least.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadge...meets-doom

Own-Age.com brings us a new Quake 3 stunt/trick flick today. The movie by KOS is called w3sp strafes and it weighs in at 382 MB, running over 12 minutes in length.
Looks like we have some DeFrag action combined with CPM and VQ3. Apparently the movie consists of only world records and according to the director, the tricks are pretty outstanding.

Creator: KOS
Game: Quake 3 Arena
Type: Trick-Stunt
Length: 12m12s
Size: 382 Megs
Resolution: 740x420
Codec: x264

You can find out more at Own-Age.com.

Thanks to Jube @ PlanetQuake

4k^nkm from Four-Kings.etqw has released his first frag movie. Its a railgun/sniper Flick mostly.

"Contains frags by myself from recent matches.
My first attempt at a fragmovie so be gentle!"

Created by: 4k^nkm
Game: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Type: Frag Highlights
Length: 9 min
Size: 266 MB

Source: crossfire.nu
#4kings (on Qnet)

i have a simple question, did the new FEAR addon have a multiplayer.
is it a new MP with other weapons and maps or its compatible with FEARCombat.

i looked everywhere but cant find any info about that. :[ ]

Ventrilo is subject to United States export controls. Ventrilo may not be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported: into (or to a national or resident of) Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria or any other country to which the United States has embargoed goods; or any organization or company on the United States Commerce Department's "Denied Parties List."

LOL.
http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

QuakeCon 07: Press Conference
Show Begins @ 4:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Central, August 3rd

This are the major announcements from id Software from their press conference on Friday on the QuakeCon 2007.

Source: Shakenews Blog


:: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars ::
- Hollenshead announces ETQW release date for PC: October 2, 2007.

:: Return to Castle Wolfenstein ::
- Raven developing RtCW, Threewave Software contributing to multiplayer (Nerve is out).
New Wolfenstein game will be rather different from past Wolfenstein games, said Carmack.

- Return to Castle Wolfenstein feature film in development.

:: Quake 3 ::
- Carmack wants to do a Quake Arena Nintendo DS game.
- Quake Arena Arcade announced, developed by Pi Studios and id for Xbox 360.

- Quake3 for free.
Creating an new dev team to do Quake 3 Arena game called "Quake Zero" powered by id Tech 5.

John Carmack: "Quake Arena was always my favorite game, my favorite id game." Not the company's biggest blockbuster, but "I have always liked the simple, straightforward and elegant game."

(its a little bit confusing to read about the Quake3 project at this time)

:: Steam & Orcs&Elves 2 ::
- Every single id game on Steam.
- Orcs & Elves 2 for mobile, coming by end of year. Orcs & ELves for Nintendo DS this year.

:: RAGE - the new game titel ::
- id Tech 5 Engine, game titel of the new game is RAGE. Rage is apparently massive, will ship on 2 DVDs or one Blu-ray.

Hollenshead: id Tech 5 will run equally well on any platform, not in any company's pocket, "and for you press, you can print that."


Thanks nellie for posting this link in #esreality
I hope later that RogeR from Quakeunity will film the press conference and the following keynote-speech from our techguru John Carmack.

Gametype: Duel
Map: ztn3tourney1 - Blood Run
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: czm / ZeRo4
Version info: dm_68 OSP
How to play back Q3 demos



"Democast" of QuakeCon 2004 Super Final

ZeRo4 vs. czm

with a synchronized radio commentary which was provided live by iTG. Shoutcast by iTG`trillian & iTG`DeeAy.

Files, 34 MB
czm-vs-z4@ztn(czm)-with-warmup.bat
ZeRo4-vs-czm@ztn(qcon2k4-superfinal).bat
ZeRo4-vs-czm@ztn(qcon2k4-superfinal)-with-warmup.pk3
ZeRo4-vs-czm@ztn(qcon2k4-superfinal).txt

copy all to osp directory and start the .bat
Run <q3a>/czm-vs-z4@ztn(czm)-with-warmup.bat [czm pov]
Run <q3a>/ZeRo4-vs-czm@ztn(qcon2k4-superfinal).bat [ZeRo4 pov]

Gametype: Duel
Map: pro-q3tourney4 - Vertical Vengeance
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: Socrates
Version info: dm_67 OSP
How to play back Q3 demos


"Democast" of WCG USA from 2002.10.06
69Daler vs. reebHimself (Socrates)

with a synchronized radio commentary which was provided live by Team Sportscast Network, djWheat--Democast.

Files, 19 MB
69Daler-vs-reebHimself.bat
69Daler-vs-reebHimself-pro-q3tourney4-(reebHimself)-2002.10.06.pk3
read_me.txt (copy all to osp directory and start the .bat)

Gametype: Duel
Map: pro-q3tourney2 - Proving Grounds
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: ?
Version info: dm_67 OSP
How to play back Q3 demos


"Democast" of WCG USA 2002: Socrates vs. Fatal1ty

with a synchronized radio commentary which was provided live by Team Sportscast Network, djWheat--Democast--Interview.

Files, 19 MB
ck-fatal1ty--vs--reebHimself.bat
Tsn--djWheat-interview---fatal1ty-vs-reebHimself.pk3
readme_.txt (copy all to osp directory and start the .bat)

Gametype: Duel
Map: pro-q3dm6 - Campgrounds
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: LeXeR
Version info: dm_67 OSP
How to play back Q3 demos


QuakeCon 2002 Q3A championship match (Aug 17, 2002)

Grand Final
M19*LeXeR (Russia) vs *69|Daler (USA)

with a synchronized radio commentary which was provided live by Team Sportscast Network, djWheat--Democast.

Files, 20 MB
lexer-qc2002.bat
lexer-qc2002.pk3
readme.txt (copy all to osp directory and start the .bat)

Gametype: Team Game
Map: Various Maps
Mod: Capture The Flag
Viewpoint: Multiple Chase
Version info: 1.32 OSP
How to play back Q3 demos


20.5.2007

Quake 3 Q3A CTF - Clanbase OpenCup Spring 2007
q3wcp1 & q3ctf2