Quake Lives! , the Quakeworld revitalization project has released the first public secure beta. This is the first public release of the client proxy and new server (for QuakeWorld) to prevent the cheating that has been going on since the Quake 1 source release.

Blues has word of the release of IRCQW , a GL QW client modification that allows the user to IRC while playing Quake. Why someone would want to do that is anyone's guess though, might as well just alt-tab or quit Quake altogether.