GameSpy is doing an excellent cover of Doom III at the E3 (hehe that's cute to say... say it 10 times, faster each time). Some question with Marty Stratton from ID and a couple of pictures... The more interresting stuff will be tomorrow where they'll feature a 7-minute movie on the history of DOOM. Here's a little preview with Marty:

GameSpy: From the looks of things, it looks like you guys are planning something pretty big for E3 -- can you tell us a little about it?

MS: We couldn't be more excited about the show this year. It is our first public showing of the game (not just a technology demonstration), and we've planned the most impressive game demonstration I've ever seen -- and I've been at every single E3. I'll save the details for later. =)

Whoaaaa I wanna see that!

A new version of Æstats - Æon's Stats has been released bringing it up to v5.30. AEstats is a log file analyser for 3D shooters (including Q3Arena) with stats/ranking output in HTML. Revisions in this release include:

• Added return to castle wolfenstein support with 20 weapon and 20 suicide obituaries.
• Added jedi knight ii support with 30 weapon and 12 suicide obituaries.
• Updated support for strike force (ut mod) with 4 new weapon (widowmaker, steyr aug, m203, hkg36) and 1 new suicide obituary.
• Updated support for tactical ops (ut mod, retail) with 5 new weapon (9f2pistol, berg509, gl23, m4a1,uzi) obituaries.
• fixed a really bad crash bug, that would sometimes happen when aestats tried to generate html output pages.
• Fixed colored names for all q3a-engine games, specifically rtcw and jk2. the color escape characters are properly removed from the output pages.
• New cygwin1.dll included, this should fix some problems with winxp and nt.
• Æstats now supports 50 games/mods... wheee :).
• Started getting team stats in, new pages are calculated, but they are way from final! but i am keeping them in to do more testing etc.
• Future releases will not only include binaries for win32 and linux, but now also for mac os x.

You can check find out all the details of this parser and get the download at the Æstats website.

Well, things have finally quieted down at work (even though I'm posting this at 2:30 am!), so I'm back in business... Eternal Arena 5.8 and then 5.8.1 was released last week. The latest version has a bunch of goodies and fixes including:

- added Cloak gametype
- added MultiFlag gamemode
- added cg_gore cvar (bigger explosions, x2 blood, x2 gibs)
- added extra menu for additional gametype callvotes
- added Survival frags drop health
- removed health in Survival
- fixed some gametype callvotes not fitting onto dynamic menu
- fixed g_starthealth not initialising
- fixed team orders menu not showing for CTF Instagib
- fixed internal server browser sorting

Download the latest version here.

It's been a while since we got any new Quake 3 models from them. So here's the new stuff on our favorite models place. Churchill is one of the latest model who got a really good rating (9/10). The Brothers Grim are working on a nice looking model that you can see a screenshot here. It looks like a lot of people are skinning on it. A pretty cool looking model also that is available is Zorak from the TV show "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast". A magnificient VF-1J from the TV show Robotech/Macross. And lastly, someone who maybe had too much time available on his hands, a Hooligan(7/10). Okay that's it I'm dead, my bed is calling me.

Threewave 1.5 is out! Featuring 8 new maps, 3 additional gametypes and other changes... You can check their mirrors page here.

Okay here's a couple of related items to Quake 3 Fortress:

LeakSpot got a new map for the mod called The Space tube.

Interview with Ghetto, the Lead Quality Assurance member of Q3F @ The Fragzone.

Finally, the DTeam is working on a new map for, guess what? Quake 3 fortress.

Mmmm juicy...

Like I said a while ago, The Dark Conjunction has released their source code to the net. Check their download page for all the available mirrors.

Well, if you are, like me, into matrox video card, you may have heard about their newest product that has just been announced. The Parhelia has generated a lot of wild rumors but at last it's here and you can see all the specs @ The hardware zone. Now I wonder how Doom III will look with this new baby. Ho! Btw, the new card is not dual head anymore. It's triple head and yes, you can Quake with 3 monitors on it @ about 300 fps. Yes, I said 3 hundreds FPS.

Raven reports that SOF II has gone gold and will be released on May 21st. (I've pre-ordered it!!)

That's right! SOF2 has gone GOLD and should be found in stores next week. Seems that Activision has kept their schedule to release by May 21st as mentioned by EBGames.com (where I suggest you shop, personally).

Also, remember to keep an eye on SOFFiles.com for the SDK release. It wasn mentioned by Raven that the SDK would be released at the same time as the game... so get those download engines ready.

A new version of the anti-cheating software Punkbuster was released yesterday...

PunkBuster has been updated to a new version and placed on the master servers for auto update. Linux Admins who are experiencing a "non responsive" PunkBuster with the current version can download the new v0.987 Linux PB Server binary from here.

It's coming to get you alive! Mouhahahaha. Well not really but be ready for Threewave version 1.5 will be there next thursday. Fire up your modem, get ready to race for the download, this new baby will feature 8 new maps. Another reason for me to quit my girlfriend and spend all the rest of my life on this mod!

Whoooa 2 days in a row without any update... That's pretty long and sorry about it. It's really a busy week end for me and I've got 20 minutes to post something... So Quake game loader is a nifty utility to start/load a game of the old classic Quake. It seems also that in a near/far future it will support Quake 2/3 and Half life. Could be really usefull. But for the moment it stick for Quake only.

Dekard is giving us some news about our beloved CTF mod, Threewave. Instead of re-typing everything let me use one of the most usefull feature of a computer wich is called copy and paste.

I whipped up a cheesy little avi of the new marioesque "coin mini game" that is being added as one of the minigames in the new Episode voting portal. You can download the 4.2 meg bundle of joy right here. With the alternate Episode voting portal you will now be able to vote for 'sets' of maps or 'episodes' which you will play those maps with the gametype and episode that was voted on, then return to the portal for further voting. It's excellent stuff, 1.5 is looking to be the best release yet. More Threewave quality maps coming with this release as well!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I love that mod!

Kiltron from the Mean Arena is working on a new map (his second one, the first one was called Deviant) as a promotion for the new album of PitchShifter, PSI. The map will, of course, feature a song from the album. As usual, when the map will be available, I'll let you know.

As I was saying yesterday... The UMP patch is here. Fixing a couple of shaders problems. You can download the small 2kbs patch here.

It seems that it's the days for some map pack... But for this one you ain't on drugs for sure, you read me right, it's for Quake 1. Good ol' trusty Quake. This map pack was created for the Classic 3D games map pack competition. This contest from CocoT has brought us a map pack with some wacky ideas for Quake 1. You can download the pack here. But first make sure that you find your old cd of Quake and reinstall it. Maybe I'll do that this week end.

A couple of days ago I received an email from Snizh-Fize about a new Quake 3 OSP Clan movie. Pretty good player as I saw. The introduction must be in german since I didn't understand anything but I think that fragging is a universal language. Anyway some funny hello to Mortal Kombat and Star Wars. You can download that 72 megs avi here.

Not so long ago I posted a news about the UMP. There is some problems with shaders so they will release a patch to fix the problem. Of course I'll tell you when it'll be out.

There is a new JKII patch out from LucasArts. Here's a list of the fixes:

Multiplayer:
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* Corrects an issue where players were unable to cycle to detonator packs and trip mines on the “explosives” key unless they also had Thermal Detonators.
* Corrects an issue that prevented launching a multiplayer game on AMD(TM) dual processor machines.
* Corrected an exploit to prevent players from using illegal models in the game.
* Corrected an exploit that allowed players to have force powers outside of what the server rules allow.
* Added a keyboard icon that appears over the player's head when the player is chatting or configuring force powers.
* Backflip now requires that you double tap the jump button.
* Lightsaber usage in multiplayer has been modified to work similarly to the way it works in single player levels. This will enable better saber battles up close with your opponent.
* Lightsabers will do less damage at the very start and very end of a swing. This should prevent kills from just touching an opponent with the tip of your lightsaber.
* Other players will not see the glow from a player using force absorb until they are attacked.
* Force Heal and Force Drain have been adjusted to require more force energy to use them.
* Corrected an issue that prevent lightsaber locking from occurring in duels even if it was enabled by the server.
* Correct various Duel mode issues, including: * Reconfiguring force powers will not place your player at bottom of queue.
* If one player leaves during a match when dueling with more than 1 kill limit, the next person in line will not enter the match with the score of the person who left the match.
* Changing skins will no longer produce a loss score on HUD that includes fraglimit.

Single Player:
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* Corrected an issue that would cause the third AT-ST on Artus_Topside to disappear that prevented Jan from landing.
* Corrected an issue that caused enemies not to be alerted by the body of a comrade in their field of vision.
* Corrected an issue where enemies did not try to avoid thermal detonators that were thrown at them.
* Corrected an issue that would cause the player to be unable to attack for about thirty seconds if they were force pushed out of a saberlock.

Get more information, or download the patch here.

It's here gang! Version 1.2 has been released! Be sure to check their download page to get the file!

Mommy! I wanna download some maps from the Geocomp2, but where? Fear not! (I wonder sometime where I get my stupid lines to post news :P). Anyway here's a pretty good link for that. So here's the list of all the links to download all the maps. Easy uh? What do you think about all these maps? Wich one is your favorite? Why? What's the best one to frag? Gimme all your comments in this post!

Yep! That's right folks! Bid for power, the popular mod of the DragonBall Z universe, version 1.2 is coming for tomorrow. Here's a list of some fixes for this version:

More crunchy bugfixes than 10 bowls of 1.1.
6 new nutricious attacks.
1 new map, and 2 new improved versions of maps.
Complete rebalance of everything.

More news tomorrow of course! :)

Okay, pretty slow today. So on one side , Aspyr Studio got a nice FAQ of the game (for mac, of course) and also there is a review of the game @ Inside Mac Games. Also in the FAQ you can learn that the patch 1.31 is coming along.

GtkRadiant version 1.2.7 was released today. The release is for for bug fixes, no new game support.

- The mod editing configuration has been fixed and improved.
- The File menu has a handy shortcut to bring you to the website and check if a new version is available.

You can pick up the new version here.
They also have some comments about future game support:

We got a lot of requests lately for various games support. Here's the status:
Jedi Knight II: We are working on JKII support. There has been a lot of requests for JKII, and we hope to have a JKII game pack in the upcoming 1.2 releases
Soldier Of Fortune II: Is not even released yet! But obviously we will have support for it too.
Medal Of Honor: We don't get as many requests for MoH support. We don't have plans to put some developer resources into MoH at this point, but we will happily help some new developers who would want to get involved.
Half-Life: Is still under way. The first release of GtkRadiant with HL support will be a beta of the 1.3 series.
Quake II and Quake: Would be in the 1.3 releases too. We are lacking developers for this too.