Some more recaps of last week's QuakeCon event on XSReality and Q3Center.

There are several videos of last week's QuakeCon on Gamespot. There are also interviews with John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead of id as well as three interviews with female gamers.

I just finished putting up the last few pictures I had from QuakeCon and the post-QuakeCon BBQ by Ritualistic. It has pictures from Carmack from his talk on Saturday and also pictures of Steve wearing a transparent cowbow hat. For captions go here.

For all the pictures of the past couple of days thumbnailed go here. The captions are on this page.

QuakeCon 2000 has come to an end and ZeRo4 is the winner of the tournament, taking home a 1Ghz AMD machine with a GeForce2 and all that cool stuff. There's a scoreboard on Net Games USA and Cached has demos.

Just got out of the Carmack talk and as most people were hoping he gave out a few more details on the next Doom game. I'll do a quick summary before I forget stuff and give you guys a more complete set of things by Monday. Here ya go:

- Doom will be going back to DLLs, and will be using C++ (with the exception of the rendering code) instead of C
- Carmack feels the visual 'wow factor' of the new Doom will be a greater jump than it was from the recent jumps between Quake/Quake2/Quake3. (Lots of neeto new effects), but it will also focus on actual gameplay instead of just that 'wow factor'
- Single player is the absolute focus, and Carmack feels it will be their best single player experience to date.
- The game and editor/tools are now combined. You'll be able to simply type doom.exe -editor for example (Or maybe even an in-game toggle)
- Spending more time on the sound code / game code with the new programmers on the team.
- There probably wont be much discussion on the gameplay specifics since what made Doom so big is always a subject of arguments. (No talking about the game itself)
- All of the Doom code is being written from scratch. Rendering etc.
- A port to XBox is likely, Linux is likely (although it will take some work) and Mac will be OSX only.

6pm update: I just realized I left out one important detail. Carmack mentioned off-handedly that there will be a test release of the new Doom.

I've put up my day 2 QuakeCon pictures (Steve forgot the memory stick for his camera, real smart). You can go to a caption overview of the pictures, or a thumbnail overview. If you missed the day 1 pictures, go here.

The QuakeCon 2000 Quake3 tournament scoreboard is fixed and updating again, have a look at the live results as they happen here.

If you would prefer to check out yesterday's QuakeCon pictures with descriptions, you can go to this page and see what's going on. I'll get a whole bunch of more pictures up today, so keep checking back. Here is the thumbnail overview from last night.

8:40update: Here are a few other places to check out pictures/recaps of day1 & setup: Stomped , PlanetQuake (and another) , D-OveRMinD's page , CoreMeltdown.com (Thanks BluesNews)

This is Maarten updating at QuakeCon (I'm not dead, as some might've thought/hoped), the big LAN event in Mesquite, TX. The event is absolutely huge this year, with the convention area being used which is a lot bigger than last year's space here in the Hampton Inn. Besides the big LAN and the tournament there are exhibitors like NVidia, Sega, Apple and Activision - they are showing Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Soldier of Fortune Gold, the Quake3 Mission Pack and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I snapped a bunch of pictures today for you all to take a look at, I'll caption them tomorrow.

QuakeCon starts today (Which I assume is where Maarten disappeared to this morning) and GameSpy has a little preview of sorts of the events. If you're in the Dallas area make sure and stop by. Hopefully gonna make it there myself this evening.

For those of you making your way to QuakeCon, here are a few pictures of the event setup as well as the spanky new id Software offices.

For all of you attending QuakeCon next week, the schedule page has been updated again, showing the workshops and seminars as they are scheduled right now. Various id employees will be there, Nvidia, Jake Simpson of Raven and many more.

The QuakeCon tournament page has been updated again, fixing a typo that listed Q3DM7 as a 1vs1 map, and adding the specs of the tournament machines (1Ghz, wooh).

If you're going to QuakeCon, the official site has been updated with info on the 512 player Q3 tournament. They have posted the prizes you can win as well, plus the waiver you'll need signed by your guardians if you aren't 18 yet.

If you didn't register for QuakeCon2000 yet and wanted to play in the tournament or bring your own computer, tough luck, as all spots for both of them have been filled according to the QuakeCon 2000 website. There are still spots for general attendence.

Anyone wanting to attend QuakeCon 2000, registration is now up (as was announced it would) on the QuakeCon 2000 website. Expect the site to be slow but hey, mad LAN / tournament action.

Tonight registration for QuakeCon 2000 will start, and for that a press release was sent out by the organization team. Registration is not up yet, but should be in a couple of hours (I'll post another story then).

QuakeCon 2000 weighs in as the largest to date, providing three days of round-the-clock networked mayhem for over 2,000 pre-registered gamers. This year's battle will feature a 512-player QUAKE III Arena tournament and a horde of other team, clan and celebrity competitions. It will also offer more than 1,250 slots for bring-your-own-computer (BYOC) fanatics -- double the size of last year's area. <snip>
Gamers can register online at http://www.quakecon.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external beginning today, May 5. Attendance is free. Walk-ins will be allowed as space permits, but the only way to guarantee a spot is to register online. QuakeCon 2000 will be held at the Mesquite Convention Center and Exhibition Hall in Mesquite, Texas.
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Quakecon.org has just posted a real news update, announcing QuakeCon 2000! This year it will be held August 3 - 6, in Mesquite, TX at the Hampton Inn. Better start booking rooms, because QuakeCon is THE Quake LAN event. Registration will start May 5, with free attendence limited to 2900 people. Be sure to hit the page for all the details.

Check this on eBay, you can bid on the winning Keyboard/Mouse used at QuakeCon by DieharD. Currently at a hundred bucks.

Remember QuakeCon99? Well if the Shack QuakeCon Picturebook wasnt enough for you then you should check out the pictures the Ritualistic guys took. Also the Lilith & Eve show will be showing some footage from the event on tonight's show. Lastly Blue pointed out that Cowboy Carnage Radio has a wrap-up as well.