A DM test of the Star Wars Quake TC has been released. This is a mod for Quake 2, and has been in development for a pretty long time. This DM test is a 25mb download and focuses "on the core design of the TC, namely force use, saber use, and weapon use together with player movement". Here are some screenshots of this bad boy

The question of course is, will this mod go the way of other "foxed" mods such as recently the Duke to Quake project ? LucasArts is usually incredibly protective of the Star Wars property.

An update for the 2.24 release of Gamespy for registered users on Fileplanet. A bug affecting the Quake2 server list has been fixed.

With the 1.27g privately released for mod makers, there have been a number of mod re-releases, and there will be more. The latest one is the Coliseum2 mod, which is like Lithium for Quake2. Over the weekend we had QBind, OSP Tourney and Reqieum. The Alliance CTF website has a new movie showing off new features from the 2.0 version that's coming out soon, compatible with 1.27g as well.
If you still need 1.17 for some servers and so you aren't using 1.27 yet, this program allows you to switch between the two. And lastly a mod that isn't yet but there are new pictures, Quake3 Rally featured on extreme-players.de.

Rocket Arena and Keygrip programmer crt has been interviewed on Machinima talking about his Keygrip editing program, of which a version for Quake3 will not happen any time soon as crt dedicates his time to Gamespy and Rocket Arena.

Machinima has the latest Quake2 engine movie, Hardly Workin'. Actually you don't really notice its the Q2 engine since everything has been changed. It's available as DivX, RealVideo or .DM2.

GameSpot is carrying a really interesting story about a VR Quake2 setup done by the guys at NCSA that will blow you away. We're talking a multi-million dollar investment into making Quake2 a reality. Check it out. Here is the homepage.

The guys at Quakeforever.com are hosting a new 1on1 Quake2 tournament which is scheduled to begin in about 2 weeks.

I'm pretty sure this is a first for the whole gaming scene. There have certainly been a number of people who have met through online gaming and eventually got married, but according to this page, well. This couple is going to get married IN a Quake2 game simultaneously with a real-life ceremony. They apparently met in real life fyi.

We're fortunate to share a very special event in the lives of BadBoyBubba, and db_High who will tie the knot of love on a Quake2 server at 7.00PM on Monday the 14th, which is Valentine's Day!We'll be coming live to you with this event. Stay with us as the first Quake2 wedding on the planet unfolds.

A new Quake2 movie to download this weekend. Check out A Warriors Life which I've been told is pretty good as far as these things go. Thanks JayZee

raYgunn fired off an email telling us Rust/Gamedesign has a tutorial on making Q3 like jump pads in Q2 through the use of "angles" key.

Riding the Rocket is a Quake 2 demo showing off Q2DM1 tricks, with rocket jumps ranging from a simple or doublejump to the more advanced circlejump. Looks very nifty.

There's a new server side version of Rocket Arena available, with improved competition mode, a new damage scoring option and selectable arena.cfg files. Saw that on Blues.

According to Blues, the PSX version of Quake 2 has shipped and will be in stores soon.

One of those female gamer things we all know and love reading so much. Wired News talks about the female gamers tournament that will be concluding at CPL GroundZero tourney taking place in New York starting this Friday. As for why women must be seperated considering they are just as good as the male players is beyond me. Oh wait, it makes for good press. Thanks Rick B. On that note, I will be opening up sign-ups for my all red headed tournament in the near future. Hopefully I can get Wired to cover it.

The final version of KeyGrip, the Quake2 demo editor has been released. There really isnt any other demo editing tool that I'm aware of that can compare, so if you're gonna try to make those movies or highlight reels this is all you need.