UGN3D sits down for a Q&A with Mark Jamieson: Director of Creative Labs Canada. Warning: they don't talk much about Creative Labs stuff as much as personal music tastes, hockey, and South Park. This was during the Canadian Comdex in Toronto I believe.

It's TC everybody! rapping with 3DRealms' Joe Siegler about the elusive Duke Nukem Forever, a mention about the balls of steel, and the number of Duke 3D downloads.

People bored off of their asses (or completely clueless to what deathmatch is) might want to read up on Game Center's 10 commandments of DM.

Gamespot UK has the incredibly short (short!) deal on the Blood2 EP.

A more respectable length comes from GameSpot with their review of Kingpin, which they call a "decent shooter". We still need that patch!

What? What are you looking at? WTF!?

Oops, forgot to post this sooner, sorry about that. Here is the new weekly demo courtesy of DieharD-r3v. Actually it's a pair of demos in a single zip that are worth checking out.

The new IOTD today should bother you quite a bit if you are an animal fan. Think you're captain funny guy and got a caption? Enter the caption contest and win a big wet one from my mom!

The winner for the IOTD contest for the last contest was incredibly difficult to decide on, in fact there are so many good ones I'm gonna just wuss out and call it a draw. That picture was just calling for good captions.  Here is a list of all the entries.

Here is the previous IOTD (captions), and For now you can just check out this link for the index of all the previous IOTD stuff until I finish my work on the thumbnails etc

I've finished up the article with all the details on the next Quake3 release that I could muster. I've sent off the article to Graeme to make sure my facts are straight so I dont tell you guys some wrong info. Graeme has also been so kind as to agree to give me a couple of screenshots to show off the new rail effect and 1on1 map. Hopefully if things go well it will be golden late tonight. I'll get back to posting some more news stuff for you guys now :) Feel free to bitch and moan about how the man is holding you down and keeping information away etc on the Quake3 messageboard. (Which has been stable for months now, go Sander!)

Well, I just got home from several hours of testing up at id Software on the latest build of Q3Test. We checked out the new weapons, a few new maps, played around with the 1on1 tournament stuff on the new tourney map, and most importantly had a look at the new rules and item placements for clan matches on Q3Test1. Tim Willits was kind enough to take a lot of input from a few of top level clans and players and came up with a setup that I think clan players will love. Also had a look at the lightning gun which is just about done, there is all kinds of cool / interesting stuff to tell you guys about. Graeme gave me the go-ahead to write up anything I want so I'm gonna give you guys just about all the details I can. I'll spend most of the day tonight / tomorrow writing stuff up and checking my facts with Graeme. I imagine it will be done by late in the evening Wednesday, more realistically though I'll have it online Thursday. Depends on how fast I can work and how quick the id guys are at responding to email :)

Feel free to post in the comments section any questions you have and I'll try to include it in the mini-article.

The new IOTD today should really disturb you, especially if you are an X-Files fan. It just bothers me.. a lot. Ack! Think you're captain funny guy and got a caption? Enter the caption contest and win a big wet one from my mom!

The winner for the IOTD contest for the last contest goes to Satellite with ""Maintenance Area. Caution: this road is not finished and therefore not supported. This is only a test version of the finished road. Some drivers may want to wait until the final version before driving this road. Please do not report any potholes/missing pavement/etc. until auto_setup is performed on vehicle"  Here is a list of all the entries.

For now you can just check out this link for the index of all the previous IOTD stuff until I finish my work on the thumbnails etc.

Under the stuff to look at category, if you are an EverQuest fan this link to the sale of an incredible level 43 character on EB should pretty much drop your jaw. Then you can have a look at the NetGamesUSA vs Epic Games UT match about to get underway.

A new beta of the PSX emulator Bleem! is available. Thanks Demonews

3DGameGeek has a new interview with Rick Johnson of RavenSoftware. Rick doesnt pull any punches in this interview and has quite a few interesting things to say. Probably my favorite quote here which will ruffle a few Ion Storm feathers:

Rick:
Just as a final note, SoF will mark the 3rd time that I've been working on a project that is scheduled to be coming out the same time as Daikatana. But who's counting?

The interesting article of the day comes our way via ArsTechnica. Have a look at DNA computing of all things. Here is a quote from the Ars guys:

It looks like researchers are getting that much closer to making workable computers out of DNA. So far they've been able to solve pencil-and-paper math problems with them, and sometime this year they hope move up to solving problems that require a computer. One of the potential applications of this type of computing is encryption cracking.

The new IOTD today just goes to show that no matter how good you are at one job, it doesnt mean you cant expand your horizons... . Think you're captain funny guy and got a caption? Enter the caption contest and win a big wet one from Marcus!

The winner for the IOTD contest for the last contest goes to JinXed with "What moron stold my Playbear?!?!"  Here is a list of all the entries.

Previous IOTD's:  santa.jpg (captions) pork.jpg (captions)  arkansas.jpg (captions) starwar.gif (captions) doggie.jpg (captions) gates.jpg (captions) parade.jpg (captions) hotcurry.jpg (captions) msteam.jpg & realmsteam.jpg (captions)  unfunf.jpg (captions) cat.jpg (captions) paint.jpg (captions) nuts.jpg keyboard.jpg theguys.jpg tattoo2.jpg aussie.jpg spears.jpg ms.jpg clint2.jpg drunke3.jpg q2chick.jpg fruit1 fruit2 fruit3 fruit4 and fruit5

The latest edition of wack-ass links has been posted, by request I'll start giving credit to people who send in the links, you have to specifically ask to be credited however since a lot of people dont really like to see their name anywhere near that link they send in. :)

The GamersVoice guys have a bit more word on whats going down at LucasArts with confirmation on the departure of Mark Hutchinson. Also that Steve Dauterman (Director of Development) is still around the office however he has turned in his letter of resignation and it's just a matter of packing up and shipping out.

A new version of WinAmp has been released for all you MP3 lovers.

A few different things for you aspiring game developers out there to play with. Firstly you can have a look at the latest version of the Blitz Engine from ACID REIGN. Then for the texture artists among you head over to the Wally homepage and grab the latest version of this handy-dandy util. (Thanks Blue) Also I've also gotten word that Nels Bruckner from Dynamix has announced that a Worldcraft converter utility for TRIBES should be released late this afternoon.