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Quake2 Mods

A number of new Quake2 mods released today:

• Superheroes for Quake2 has hit Beta3a and is available on the homepage for download.
• Ionic Teamplay for Quake2 has hit version 1.32 and enables a form of teamplay for people who just can't wait for the Quake2 point release.
• C.R. Bot has hit version 0.99. This is mostly a bug fix release but doesnt offer very many new features, I suspec the big v1.0 will do that.

PGL Finals Stuff -Updated

• An even larger article covering the PGL "controversy" has been posted over at the popular Techweb page.
• Yet more coverage is popping up on the topic of Thresh's part ownership in a company directly involved with officiating and managing the PGL which he is competing in. This time over at PC Gamer.
• Gamers Extreme has posted a preview giving odds on the final 8 players in both the Quake tournament as well as the Red Alert tournament. Here are the Quake players: (I'm personally putting my money on Reptile to take it all.)
  - Thresh 2:1 - Reptile 3:1 - B2 2.75:1 - Unholy 3.5:1 - Frick 5:1 - Cabalist 6:1 - Kurtz 9:1 - Soulnet 10:1
• PlanetQuake of course will be doing live updates from the event in Seattle for everyone to watch.
• The guys over at www.allgames.com will also be doing coverage as well.

Interviews

• GamesLINK will be hosting an interview with American McGee of id Software tonight at 9pm EST. Just jump on irc.gameslink.net and join the #quake2 channel.
• Razor's Edge has an interview with John Romero of Ion Storm.
• Razor's Edge also has an interview with Noel Stephens of Ion Storm.
• Psych Gamer has posted their 2nd part of the interview with Brian Bruning of 3dfx. -VooDoo

Preview / Review Land

What everyone else is saying about the games you play and the hardware you use:

• Games Galore has posted a preview of Valve Software's Half-Life.
• GameSpot has posted their preview of todays Quake Killer, SiN from Ritual Entertianment.
• OGR has posted yet another preview of Jedi Knight's mission pack, Mysteries of Sith. -Blue's

SiN's JC

HardCorps SiN News has added JC to the gallery of color character sketches. JC is your handy-dandy sidekick, who gives you vital clues to help you through SiN in single-player mode.

Quake2 DM Models

PC Gamer.com has posted screenshots of one of the new player models to be included in the point release / DM pack release for Quake2 on their website. The model is called the "Cyborg" and well, looks like one.

Quake2 DeveLS

The guys over at Quake DeveLS have posted all kinds of crazy new things for you to check out, they've got 14 new tutorials on Quake 2 DLL coding. Here are a few other things ripped from PlanetQuake:

• Perl Interface -- Use Perl statements within quake. Useful for string handling, log files, password files etc.
• Deathmatch Scoreboard -- This is a new-look deathmatch scoreboard that shows more than just the top 12 players (useful for those 70 player games !)
• Star Wars Laser -- Red and Blue laser blasters ! Move over, Jedi Knight !

Quake2 Editing

Some stuff to read for all you Quake2 hax0rs out there:

• Obiwan has posted his lengthy rant to try and educate people on how to not abuse the detail brush and rotation in Quake2 maps.
• Big Al is hosting a Quake2 level editing contest for anyone interested at http://members.tripod.com/~dviper450/

DM Stuff

• Slade is hosting a competetion to name his web page where you could win 2 music CD's or a computer game, (winner's choice) sign up at www.neurogamer.com/slade
• Quake Fest '98 is a tournement that's going to be held at Purdue University on Febuary 15.For more info visit www.quakefest.org
• Round 2 of the Skillz Tourney has just ended... The field is down to 112 players (from the original 448).. Round 3 has officially begun and 25% of the matches have already been played.. If you're a part of the tournament or want to check out how it's shaping up stop by Skillz http://skillz.stomped.com
• Immortal is running a QuakeWorld DM news page which covers the highly skilled GamesNET DM community and the players who are involved in it.

Interviews

• PlanetQuake has done an interview with Joe Perez of the PGL.

Genocide 3

It's about to start! the largest QuakeWorld clan tournament ever, Genocide3. Asus just sent out the email to all the clans with the news that round 1 begins on February 3rd with round1. If you signed up for the tournament you better check out the homepage.

TeamFortress v2.7

A new version of Team Fortress has been released to address the sentry gun cheat that has been running a bit rampant on the servers recently. Not sure what else has been fixed though. I'll take a wild guess though, minor bug fixes?

QERadiant

Yet another version of QERadiant has been released for you QE4 fans. Up to v0.38 now.

Rocket Arena for Q2

A new version of the beloved Rocket Arena patch for Quake2 has been released, here is the email I got from crt:

A new version of the Rocket Arena 2 server has been released on the Rocket Arena page: http://www.planetquake.com/servers/arena It includes both Win32 and Linux versions and is available from: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/idgames2/planetquake/servers/arena/ra2096sv.zip The new version addresses all current stability issues, and adds an awesome configuration system for server operators. This will most likely be the last Rocket Arena 2 release before the point release code comes out. During that time we will work on adding tons of features for observers and players. In addition, we have tremendous crew of map makers hard at work on the first Rocket Arena 2 map pak. All of them are WELL known mappers and they are making some awesome stuff for RA2.

The Ultimate Flattery

Ok, now this is just plain crazy, apparently the guys over at LinQuake got bored enough to actually compose an mp3 "theme song" if you will for my page which I am obligated to post. It's actually very good and I'll have to find a good permanent home for this file for people to enjoy in the future. (Shift click to download it)

Thanks a million guys, we got a great laugh here at the apt. :)

Review / Preview Land

What everyone else is saying about the games you play and the hardware you use:

• The guys over at http://riot.com.au have posted previews of both Unreal and Riot Mobile armor for you to check out. Haven't heard much out of the Unreal guys recently, they must be getting close? maybe? Thanks Glenn Murphy.
• GameSpot continues it's daily articles covering all the "Quake Killers" this time posting some info on Valve Software's Half-Life project which is getting pretty darn near completion. -VooDoo

Interviews

• Dingo and deathFOX from the Invite Capture Ring were interviewed at Captured.Com. They also ask Fox about his news site, Capture^2.

The Rebuttal

As many people are aware, Gamers Extreme, a company that Dennis Fong (Thresh) is a part owner of, is heavily involved with the running of the PGL tournament which is coming to a conclusion this weekend up at GameWorks in Seattle. There has been an article floating around the net recently calling for Thresh to "step down" pointing out a number of issues which concern "GhostGamer" in running a fair / legal tournament. Well, there is a rebuttal to this posted on PlanetQuake.

Quake2 Modeler

David Kruse has released his own Quake2 model editor that is based on the Meddle code. He calls it studioMDx and says that he will continue working on it and releasing future versions for all of us to play with. It already boasts a number of nice features worth checking out.

Bot Crazy

The Q2 Bot Epidemic has complete comprehensive reviews on the Eraser Bot v0.4a and the C.R.Bot v0.97. It also has extensive online help and setup guides for the bots. Check it out at: http://www.quake2.com/epidemic/

More Quake2 Stuff

• Quite possibly the easiest level editor ever, Deathmatch Maker, is now supporting Quake2. Check out the homepage at www.deathmatchmaker.com of course.
• Another patch for you Quake2 guys to play with. Expert Quake2 has been released.
• GSLogModv1.2, a Quake2 server log util has been release along with the source code being available for download as well from PlanetQuake. Check out the GibStats page.

.plan Wagon

What all the homeys are sayin:

• Scott Miller of 3DRealms and Randy Pitchford of RBR are both trading a few .plan updates with choice words for each other.
• Feeling that Randy is attacking all employees of 3DR, Chris H, a new guy over at 3DR felt like sharing his lengthy 2 cents on the little discussion.

3dfx and Sega

We all remember the deal falling out between Sega and 3dfx a while back, well lawsuits have been filed, etc etc. The 3dfx website has been updated with this little bit of info: -Quake2.com

3Dfx Interactive™, Inc. (Nasdaq:TDFX) today announced that on January 9, 1998, the Superior Court for Santa Clara County entered an injunction ordering Sega to return to 3Dfx Interactive, and prohibiting Sega from using or disclosing, 3Dfx Interactive trade secrets and confidential information which had been shared with Sega pursuant to the Development Agreement between 3Dfx Interactive and Sega which Sega terminated without cause in July 1997. The January 9th injunction formalizes an injunction that was originally filed by the Court on December 22, 1997. 3Dfx Interactive filed suit against Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and Sega of America, as well as NEC Corporation and VideoLogic Group, Plc. for claims arising out of Sega's termination of the agreement to use 3Dfx's chipset in Sega's next generation video game console. 3Dfx Interactive, a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: TDFX), develops high performance, cost-effective 3D media processors, software and related technology that are designed to enable a highly immersive, interactive and realistic 3D experience across interactive electronic entertainment platforms – personal computers, coin-operated arcade systems and location-based entertainment ("LBE"). Current 3Dfx Interactive products include the Voodoo family of accelerator chipsets, Voodoo 2 Graphics, Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo Rush. Visit the company on the web at http://www.3dfx.com.

.plan Wagon

Zoid has made an update to his .plan talking about some Linux Quake2 server stuff:

rootshell.com has posted an exploit for Quake2 under Linux. This exploit was talked about on the buqtraq list a day or two ago. I've known about this one due to loading shared libs. I forgot to specifically mention in the readme that Quake2 should not be setuid. If you want to use the ref_soft and ref_gl renderers, you should run Quake2 as root. Don't make the binary setuid. You can only run both those renderers at the console only, so being root isn't that much of an issue. The X11 render doesn't need any root permissions (if /dev/dsp is writable by others for sound). The dedicated server mode (+set dedicated 1) doesn't need to be root either. I will look at solutions to this problem in the next release. Problems such as root requirements for games has been sort of a sore spot in Linux for a number of years now. This is one of the goals that GGI is targetting to fix. I plan on supporting a ref_ggi in the near future.

Brian Hook has made a pair of .plan updates talking about his um, strong opinions on Boot Magazine and a couple of articles contained in this months issue.

The RBR .plan wagon is back online, Both Landon and Billy have both made .plan updates to celebrate. :)

Hexen2 Mission Pack

A bit of news from the Hexen2 front. The Hexen2 Mission pack, Portal of Praevus Officially Announced! This official announcement on the Hexen II Mission Pack: Portal of Praevus, from the Activision Press Release:

"Battle an Evil Wizard Bent on Resurrecting the Hell-Spawned Serpent Riders in Raven Software's and Activision's Upcoming Hexen II Mission Pack Highly Anticipated Add-On Pack Features 15 New Levels, Three Formidable Foes And An All New Character Class"

• There is a new Mission Pack Interview #3 for Hexen2 with John Zuk at http://www.activision.com/games/action/hexenII/main.html#zuk
• Also, there is a set of the Newest Mission Pack Screenshots http://www.activision.com/games/action/hexenII/main.html#shotsb

Thanks William Mull and Phoebus.

Speaking of Mission Packs..

Word has propogated through the net that the Jedi Knight mission pack has gone gold and is now finished. It should be available on shelves for everyone to snag on February 16th. Thanks JediKnight.net

Previews -Updated

Got a couple more previews for you guys to read:

• MeccaWorld has gotten a hold of a couple new screenshots of Valv'e Half-Life and gives a nice little preview of the title which is still slated for an April release.
• Gamers Extreme has posted a preview of this coming weekend's finals with the 8 Quake players they decided to fly up to Seattle's GameWorks for the finals. Also, the PlanetQuake guys have sent out some email stating that they will be doing some live coverage of the event which you can follow on this page. Also, JUDGECAL sends along word that www.allgames.com will also be doing live coverage of the event as well.
• Oh, also check out the Total3d preview on AVault. This is the best RIVA128 chipset based vid card I've gotten my hands on. The thing just hauls balls, plus it has some nifty TV input / output stuff to play with. :) -VooDoo

QERadiant

Work seems to never stop on the Radiant project, working to make QE4 more user friendly and usable on lower ended systems. Build 0.37 has been released on the homepage for open testing.

Quake2 Mods

A few more Quake2 mods to hit the net for you guys:

• Fight Til Finished has just been approved by the guys at www.openquake.com and is similar to the old deathmatch 4 rules that Disruptor was trying out on the id QuakeWorld servers a long time ago. (Jack up your ammo / weapons on every spawn) -Blue's
• If you missed it yesterday, yet another version of Loki's Minion CTF for Quake2 has been released. CTF in Quake2 is a whole new experience from Quake1. Really pretty cool.
• Quake2 Weapon Accelerator is a cool simple mod for Quake2 that has just been released. Check out the homepage for a new toy.

Interviews

Got 3 more interviews for you guys to read:

• Craig Hubbard, who should be working his way up that top 10 list of most interviewed people has done another Q&A session talking about his teams work on Riot: Mobile Armor. -Willie
• Paul Schuytema of 3D Realms has done an incredibly long interview with the guys at AVault. -Angel
• Glock9, one of the organizers of the Respawn LAN party to be held up there in Canada took time out to answer a few questions over at the Capture News Page.

werd

Well, I've finally moved my computer out of giggler's house and into the new apartment. I somehow broke something though while I was moving the computer all of 20 yards to the other place and spent a good couple of hours hosing down my computer trying to figure out wtf was up with my com port goin goofy on me. Dunno what happened, but I rebooted about 15 times and it started working again, oh well.

Loki's Q2 CTF

A new version of the immensely popular Loki's Minion CTF for Quake2 has been released, here is a bit about it:

- Optimized code to allow approximately 50% more players for the same CPU usage - 4 Strogg Artifacts of technology (runes) added: Haste, Damage, Resist, and Regen - Ability to disable any or all of the runes individually - Optional offhand grappling hook (aka Expert hook) - Added sample "server.cfg" and "motd.txt" - "ctfhelp" command now gives listing of ctfflags - customizable server features such as "Allow Invulnerability", "Used Balanced Weapons", "Automatically re-pick teams each level", and "Disable team switching" - New effects, such as an optional "Star Wars" style laser blaster with team-colored lasers. - Ability to drop artifacts or flag, allowing you to do a team "hand-off" - improved maplist functionality - removal of spawn points too close to the flag

More .plan

A few more updates to the ol' .plan wagon for you guys to read.

• John Cash of id Software made an update talking about a possible simultaneous release of Zoid's CTF patch as well as the Quake2 point release being a possibility. This is a good thing. The fact that he is mentioning that they could be released on the same date must mean that the release can't be very far away. "soon" possibly?
• The Wieder man over at Ritual is suffering through waiting on the new office to be constructed. He sheds some light on just what kind of guy he is though. Did you guys know he drives a truck?

Preview

Just one more preview for you to check out today, another look at 3DRealms long in development Prey title. -Blue's.

Happy B-day Momma

Hey mom. Happy birthday lady. I'm a crappy son who forgot to bring your phone # with me to LA and didnt call. Now the whole world knows. I hope you don't trade me in for canned goods or something. :(

Quake2 Stuff

Oh my goodness, I'm actually home again and don't have any trips planned for the next month! Could it be? I know.. this is freaky, there is an actual possibility that the page will be updated regularly again. In fact, um.. I think it's my job or something. I'm home, back from the many trips, and uh.. get ready for a ride. Weekly sections are resuming, news is resuming, hi. Oh, don't forget to keep an eye on the sCary Express version of this page. Much lower bandwidth, I'll keep prettying it up.

All that is Quake2:

• Thresh and Kenn's Quake2 Bible has been redesigned again along with the website Gamers Extreme.
• Deconstruct, hosted over at www.frag.com is looking into the cinematic format of Quake2, and they have posted a short little .cin file for you to look at if you are interested. Paul Steed of id Software also updated his .plan on the subject with a bit more info on just how they were created.
• A new Quake2 model for you to check out, Astro Boy is here! (linked from Blue's) Oh, also at Deconstruct in the link above is some models for you to check out as well.
• Superheros for Quake2 is continually being updated. A new version of the mod is of course available on the homepage.

3D Card Chart

Tom's Hardware, a page you should all have bookmarked, has posted several charts which should help you in purchasing a 3D card. It pretty much just tells you to buy a 3dfx or possibly a RIVA128, but still it's interesting. :) It shows the relation between CPU speed, 3d card, and fps.

Speaking of 3D cards

Pre order a VooDoo2! Electronics Boutique is now taking pre-orders for the Diamond Monster3D 2 which features the VooDoo2 chipset. I'm gonna head on over there myself to order one. -Redwood's.

Eraser Bot

Well, this was released a couple of days ago while I wasn't around, but I thought it was well worth mentioning. The Eraser Bot, by far the most impressive Quake2 bot I know of has hit version 0.4a now. Just grab a copy of the self installer from the homepage of Team Impact.

Holy Wars

A new version of the Quake2 mod, Holy wars has been released. They are up to version 1.5 now. I've played this mod a bit a while ago and it's a pretty cool change of pace.

Quake2 Utils

A few utils to enhance your Quake2 experience:

• Jason McKnight has sent out his new Quake2 server setup util to a bunch of us webmasters to distritbute to you guys. It's called EzServer and weighs in a bit over 800k.
• The Radiant project, a port designed to make QE4, the level editor released by id Software usable on the more average user system has been updated again with a new version. They are up to v0.36 now and it's looking pretty stable.
• QRANK is a util that well, helps you rank players that are in a Quake2 game. As some people have figured out, the format of your status bar can be controlled by the server which makes for some really interesting mods.

Quake 1 Stuff

A few mods are still being released for Quake "classic"

• Um, I havent checked this one out yet, but apparently there is a snowboarding TC for Quake having just been released.
• Team Reaction has finally released the Code Red TC for Quake. If you've been around for a while you probably remember seeing bits of news about this TC being posted on PlanetQuake every once in a while. Well it's here!

Interviews

Got a bunch of interviews for you people to read:

• Kornelia, one of the top 10 lan players in the world, and a female on top of that is interviewed by LilBrat.
• Net Insider has posted an interview with Thresh, ever heard of him? -Blue's
• PC Gamer Online has posted a team interview with the Ritual Entertainment guys talking about the development of SiN.
• Next-Gen has posted an interview with Billy Zelsnack and the RBR team talking about their upcoming revolutionary hardware only 3d action game. (I've been lucky enough to see bits of the game, it'll blow you guys away)
• GamesLink will be hosting an interview with Level Designer / Sound dude American McGee of id Software on January 30th.

Little side note, kolinahr has posted a profile of top interviews being posted on the net. His top 10 actually, with John Romero of course at the top being the most interviewed man in the world or something. heh

.plan Wagon

What all the homeys are sayin:

• Gary McTaggart of Ritual has made a pair of .plan updates talking about going to lunch with Billy Z of RBR, then Brian H. of id Software to convince himself of trying Java for the new Uber Engine. He also posted a follow up talking about Visual Basic.
• Paul Steed of id Software has made a lengthy .plan update talking about the process of creating a .cin file (Cinematic scene) for Quake2.

werd

Whew, I've been flying all over the damn place recently, a trip to DC one weekend, and LA the next. I was actually going to be flying to Seattle for this next coming weekend, but figured I better not and hang around to actually update this damn page eh? I'll try to finish up the http://scary.vrgames.net/fast.html pages tonight, and also the server side include stuff with QuakeFinger might actually be fixed finally soon. I'm home! This time for more than 2-3 days! w0000.

T3 Finals go to DeathRow

Well, as I mentioned before I left on Thursday morning, VRGN was nice enough to fly me out to witness the T3 Finals match between U4 and DeathRow held at SlamSite.. I'll have a full writeup on the game as I saw it when I return and posted here as well as a bit more technical look at the page posted on CSN. Just a quick impression though is that U4 and DR were much more evenly matched than was anticipated by some. I felt that the turning point was the 2nd game 2nd or 3rd pent spawn where Thresh picked off a pair of U4 players. The match could have gone either way at that point, which if U4 had gotten that pent, they would have walked away champions winning 2 straight matches in a sweep. Hell though, that's what makes it so exciting eh? Ok, here is what everyone has been itching for, Demos from all the players.

Guess what?

Heading off to LA in the morning for the T3 VRGN SlamSite finals thingie. Now, I know these guys have a net connection, so thankfully I'll be able to update, unlike DCCON.

Oh, and wanna know a secret? It's actually 12.32am and I'm not changing the date in the header, teehee.

Bored?

I'm goofing around with the new page setup at http://scary.vrgames.net/fast.html if you feel like lookin at it. Yea, links broken, etc etc.. but hey, don't email me about it! Oh, and yea.. the fast pages means that the weekly sections will be making a return. We'll just start it fresh next week.

3D Roundup

Tom's Hardware page, an invaluable source for anyone looking to buy computer hardware has been updated with a great look at 3D cards that people may be looking at buying. -VooDoo

ClanRing Mod

I see on Blue's that a new version of the #1 competetion mod for Quake, the ClanRing mod has been updated. This is the same mod that will be being used at the upcoming T3 finals to be held on Friday / Saturday.

Slamsite VRGN T3 Finals -Updated

It's coming.. the T3 finals, the face off between Clan U4 and DeathRow. Check out the participants page also.

SlamSite, a leader in location-based multi-player gaming centers, today announced that VRGN has agreed to co-host the T3 Tournament. Sponsored by NetPower, LogiTech and 3DFX, the T3 national finals will be held live at SlamSite's Mega Center in The City of Industry, California (near Los Angeles). The 2 finalist Clans (made up of four players each) will compete on January 24th at 10:00am. <snip>

I was speaking with Pat Carmichael of VRGN and he brought to my attention that there will in fact be a 1on1 as well as a clan tournament hosted at SlamSite during the weekend events. This of course in addition to the big T3 Final match. I will be setting up as many QTV connections as I can at the event.

CSN etc. -Updated

The Cyber Sports Network page is updating again, with demos of the Thresh / DMann 7 to 5 squeaker on DM4. There is also a list of the small group of players who get to play on the LAN for the PGL victory.

Also, speaking of those gaming leagues, Cyberathlete RI-X is being featured in a national ad campaign by Micron. Just pick up some of your favorite gaming magazines to see a photo of RI-X and a link to www.cyberathlete.com

I will be sending out a couple of articles to CSN while I'm at the T3 finals to keep everyone updated on what's going on over in LA. (Flying out to LA yet again tomorrow)

Since so many people have requested it, here is Thresh's POV during the PGL semifinals.

Quake2 Stuff -Updated

All the stuff that is Quake2:

• A new version of the Quake Model Editor, (qME) has been released on the homepage.
• The Art of Strogg page has a new Quake2 font for you to download if you're interested.
• Couple of Quake2 deathmatch tips pages for you to look at. First of course is Thresh and Kenn's Quake2 tips page hosted by Gamers Extreme plans on being any good at Quake2 should check out. which everyone who
• The other Quake2 deathmatch tips guide which is worth checking out if you are still hungry to learn.
• The Quake2 Tower project looks like it was a success. There are screenshots galore at ftp://24.1.244.19/
• Randy Pitchford of Rebel Boat Rocker has posted an updated version of the very interesting Quake2 weapons FAQ that he has been working on. It goes quite a bit in depth covering the effects as well as uses of each weapon in Q2.
• Brett "3 Fingers" Jacobs, the author of the quite popular Quake / QuakeWorld section hosted here on my pages has sent out his new version of the Quake2 tweak guide for you to download and read.
• Quake2.com has updated their Unofficial Quake2 FAQ again.
• Battle of the sexes has been updated again at Spinozas Page.
• The Impact Development team has released another version of the Eraser Bot for Quake2. This thing is much more advanced than I thought could be possible so early in the life of Quake2. A must grab for honing your Quake2 DM skills.

VooDoo2 Stuff

Well, 2 companies now have announced that they will be shipping VooDoo2 chipset based 3D accelerators in the near future. The latest being Orchid, who were pretty much first out the door with their original Righteous 3D a while back.

Speaking of Tournies

The Genocide3 Tournament looks like it will indeed be the largest and best QuakeWorld Clan tournament ever assembled. Several of the "old school" Netquake clans have made the transition to QuakeWorld for the big tourney including Clan Postal as well as Deathrow.

A look at g.o.d.

I just spotted this huge article on GameSlice (10 pages worth) talking about all the implications of Mike Wilson's new publishing company, including interviews with: Ion Storm, 3D Realms; Raven, Software; GT Interactive, Terminal Reality, Ritual Entertainment, PopTop Software, and a few others.

Cool pics

Paul Steed has sent out a couple of new windows backgrounds for everyone to use. (Remember those christmas ones?) Well these are the straight Quake2 versions. 800x600 as well as 1280x1024.

Quake2 at 320x200

Yea, this kinda belongs in the "Quake2 Stuff" section, but I thought it was cool enough for it's own headline. The Epicenter guys, who recently released the patch to increase the speed of Linux Quake2 has now put out a patch for all you Win95 / NT users.

Preview / Review land

Everyone elses opinion on the games you play. Quite a few of them to look at recently:

• AVault has updated their SiN preview which is pretty lengthy.
• GamePen has posted their "development pic of the week" this week's subject is Ritual Entertainment and their SiN project which will of course blow everyone's skirt up when it's released.
• The boys at JediKnight.net have gotten a hold of 10 more exclusive screenshots of the add on for Jedi Knight, Mysteries of Sith. -Judd
• Speaking of which, there are also even more new screenshots released by the LucasArts guys for you to gaze upon as well on their homepage. -Blue's
• aCtivision has posted the first ever screenshots of the Hexen2 mission pack being worked on. There are just 2 screenshots there, but both of course are very cool looking.
• GameHut has posted a new preview of Daikatana. Havent heard much about this project in a while. Something tells me those guys are working their asses of and may really blow some people away.
• There are some new screenshots of the Blood2 project, using a new engine available at OGR.

Quake1 Stuff

All the stuff that is old school Quake:

• A new Quake movie (Which I can't download and post, due to being 28.8.. sorry. next week guys) is available. It's called Eschaton-Darkening Twilight and of course is available at the Eschaton homepage. (located in the UK)
• The Quake Server Info page has been updated with news on a new version of the Java based Quake server browser. This version is just a bug fix, so if you have the previous version with no problems, no need to update just yet.
• XQF for Quake1, a front end utility has been updated to v0.2 now.
• Creeper CTF has been updated to a new version at the homepage.

Editing Stuff

All the stuff that is Quake / Quake2 editing:

• Gateway of Rogue has been updating his QE4 manual for everyone out there lucky enough to have a machine capable of running QE4, the editor of choice for most development houses. (BSP running a close 2nd)l
• the qED page by 3D Matrix has an updated version of their editor available for download. There is now support included for Quake2, Hexen2, and even the X-Men TC.
• The PlanetQuake guys have posted a "Worldcraft: Preliminary Findings" article which goes in depth looking at all of the new features to be included in the v1.6 release of the popular Worldcraft editor.

.plan Wagon

Well, just about everyone has updated their .plan file recently. (Speaking of which, man I hope we can get that QuakeFinger insert working here soon, it's kind of a bummer not having it at the top of the page)

• Paul S. of 3DR, project leader on the Prey team has updated his .plan talking about marketing of Prey.
• Brian Hook of id Software has made a few updates since I last mentioned his .plan file of course. Just read the whole thing at Stomped. The most recent is a reminder that he will be giving a lecture in Florida tomorrow if you wish to attend. It's free!

Back! Finally..

Well, as I'm sure you guys noticed, there happened to be no net connection at DCCON for me to or Redwood to update from. We got home last night, and I've spent most of today driving around getting stuff so that I can get online. I'm chillin at giggler's apartment right now. (heh, poor guy) using his phone line and modem, while using Sabian's monitor and phone cord. Also had to run to buy a new serial cable and a couple of other things at Office Max. All this scrambling and now here I sit on an incredibly bad ISP so that possibly we can have a news update this evening.

so.... as you read this paragraph, I am at my computer sorting through the events of the weekend etc and working on an update for you puds.

And hey! I missed you guys... :)

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