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| this week has seen the start of smackdown 5 and nations quake rank 3 both well known top level qw leagues. with alot of games already been played and loads more to come (nearly 1000 games to be played in both leagues) prepare for alot of quakeworld action over the coming months.
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over here on yahoo, there's an article announcing that warner bros. are planning to release a movie based on id's doom.
here's how it starts..
los angeles (the hollywood reporter) --- warner bros. pictures is in final negotiations to pick up the feature film rights to id software inc.'s video game property "doom" in a progress-to-production deal that will see the project go in front of the cameras in 15 months, or the rights revert back to the software company
lets hope they can do a better job putting doom on the big screen than they did with tomb raider.
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for any of you out there that insist on torturing yourself with linux, teamspeak.org have just announced that they have released a linux client.
quote...
today we release the release candidate 1 of the linux client. it weighs a hefty 15 mb, because we had to add a complete binary qt2 library in order to ensure that this client will run on every linux target we support. it has all functions that the windows client has, except for all the key interception routines. that means there are no push-to-talk or key-bind capabilities. this will be added later, if possible.
you can slurp the client here.
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the full barrysworld quake 3 deathmatch league results have been posted over on the barrysworld q3dml page.
demonic core took the title after iron fist shockingly withdrew from the league due to lack of players. up until this iron fist were the favorites to win the league. once that happened all their previously played games became defaults which left demonic core one point ahead of unr.
congrats dc.
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condolences to cian cabal aka lordkhan of q.ie, whose 3 year old niece was killed on sunday in a horrific car crash. our thoughts are with his sister and family.
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 the panel signups for the online team.ie tdm team has been finished. we have 21 names, which are going to be whittled down to about 8 - 10. from a glance at the panel, there is going to be fierce competition to get on the team. what i'm going to do is run trials on an internal praccy basis, where we pick 4 v 4 and see how people fare. might organise a game this wednesday or thursday. remember that what we will be looking for is teamplay, not score, and for the purpose of getting this team online and practising quickly, the panel will be picked after a few trials and it's going to be final.
team.ie panel
beast, benji, dest, gerry, jay, killy, koopa, mindphuck, overlord, rapier, saik, sky, spectator, vincent, z3on, (m1ke). reserve panel
havok, jedi, podgeen, slaanesh.
updateteam.ie trial 1
date: tba (sometime between mon 30th and fri 4th)
time: 9pm
servers: cloud.ign.ie (will have two servers up, and will drop other
servers for duration of trials.)
team a: beast, benji, dest, z3on.
team b: killy, koopa, (m1ke), rapier.
team c: overlord, saik, sky, spectator.
team d: gerry, jay, mindphuck, vincent.
9pm, server 1 (dm14tmp) : beast -vs- overlord
9pm, server 2 (dm14tmp) : killy -vs- gerry
9.45pm, server 1 (cpm4): beast -vs- killy
9.45pm, server 2 (cpm4): overlord -vs- gerry
a few things first of all. the team members are listed in alphabetical order,
the "captain" name is the first alphabetically and an attempt has been
made to make the teams even while also separating clan members to a certain
degree. everyone has to record a demo. if you don't turn up without a valid
excuse, we'll take that you don't have enough of an interest. this is the first
of a few trials. eight people of the sixteen will be probably be dropped after
the first trial, with the exception of one of the 8 being a good coach. i don't
think it's too severe after one trial, to be honest most of us could probably
list 6 of the 8 definites purely from playing with and against them.
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sorry about this, it appears one of our hd's on our ftp server has overheated again. as a result the ftp server and hosted sites are down until the server is rebooted again. normal service will resume asap.
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ts find themselves in group a of the first league, not surprising since on paper they're must be the best ctf clan that didn't get into the eurocup (5th in bwctfl div1 last season and 1st in savage div2, currently 3rd in bwctfl div1). they're in with the euro clan bop, german clans x and lab, and maybe the dutch clan lkff and the french clan ug (i say maybe because both of these clans are in playoffs for the eurocup). i've never heard of lab before, but i know ts can beat the rest of these teams, but i suppose all will depend on how seriously they take this league.
fh are in group a of the second league, alongside some familiar teams. inf beat us in bwctfl this season, but we were missing some important players for that game and had an inexperienced side, and attackers defending, so here we'll get another chance. omg are a belgian clan in our div in savage. also in group a are the french clan :e, the european clan uc, dutch mch (mighty cows of holland), and two clans i have never heard of - french clan super (fruits) and euro clan don (although their members list says they're all german).
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the demo (you've all been waiting for?) is out. download links here. don't get the version off nvidia.com, it's corrupt. and early impressions aren't good.
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well looks like the wait for ut2003 is almost over. read over on shacknews.
quote: the demo is nearly ready to go. it should be out sometime within the next few days. keep watching this space (the stickies) for an announcement. when it's ready we'll just be releasing it randomly to a few major sites so that hopefully it will spread like wildfire and everyone will be able to get it from their favorite games site. there won't be any special exclusives or anything like that. we want everyone to be enjoying it the minute it goes live. more details to follow, keep watching this space.
i've played the uk2003 beta for about 2 months now and theres plenty of eye candy but hopefully in the demo release the gameplay will be a bit more refined.
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zero sent me this link yesterday, its deadly. takes a while to load but its worth it.
look here
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i'm sure alot of you will have seen this extract wrote last year by nicky condon (aka beast) decribing the september 11th tragedy. well worth a read. i certainly puts things in perspective.
www.quake.ie/comments.asp?item=121
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we are going to get a few national "friendlies" going for the irish tdm team. if you are interested stick your name here and we'll pick a panel.
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bif's review of the bwdml week 7 is up here on quakenation.
nd finished up 5th place in div2b again, losing 4th place to ql on equal points, due to the fact that ql-nd game went to ql. again, a weak start to the league cost nd a decent finishing place in the league.
fh appear to be in a tight spot in div3c, which isn't over yet. with two games left to play, a win over sex this week will pull fh out of the relegation zone ahead of ftf, who will undoubtedly lose to wz tomorrow night. if fh follow that on with a win over the beatable da side, they should easily avoid relegation.
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the bbc have completed a tv piece on the world cyber games, filmed in london and featuring sujoy and greg edwards (from infinity-esports). you can view the video online from the website here.
computer gaming is a sport borne out of kids playing computer games in their front rooms – but now dedicated gamers are competing with each other all over the world. to this new breed of professional gamer the business of gaming is very serious indeed, and with big prize-money, sponsorship deals offering top-notch computer equipment, and flights to exotic competition venues – who can blame them?
the piece is also going out on the bbc world service - news24 from saturday and on bbc1 in the uk on sunday.
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utvi are now offering flat rate 56k/single channel isdn access. there's a 150 hours/month cap and you have to take carrier pre select.
this means that utv become your phone provider and eircom rent you the line. (thanks to ppc for that)
"utv internet today launched voice and internet services to irish consumers, becoming the only internet service provider to currently offer flat rate access. the new services will be available throughout ireland. they will provide consumers with savings of 25% on eircom call rates for local, national and international voice calls and off peak internet access (evenings and weekends) for a flat rate of €29.99 per month."
"further details of the newly launched services are now available at utv internet’s website, www.utvip.com, by telephoning 1890 926 000 or by emailing info@utvip.com"
robbed from boards.ie here.
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i mentioned this on the end of a column, but probably wasn't really seen. if you play tdm, get these locs. put them in your osp\locs folder and all the locations are way more specific and colour-coded for teamtalk and teamoverlay.
they are the ones we did up, they can be edited and added to, (with the \addpos command), as much as required.
the levels covered are pro-q3dm6, q3dm7tmp, cpm4, q3dm14tmp, and ospdm6.
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savage ctf league season 8 kicked off this week, ts' postponement request was accepted by the swedish clan wolfclaw. fh got a good start to the season with a big win over bwctfl rivals souls.
another postponement for ts in bwctfl, this time with the belgian clan scarab. fh got a full team out for the first time this season, against the uk clan pr. we were comfortable enough in winning w7 by 2-0 thanks to a strong defence, before losing on the unfamiliar wctf1 in the final minute of the game.
elsewhere, qw activity is likely to pick up again with the resumption of the nqr - a very busy league with 60 european clans entered, split into 3 divisions. the only irish clan there is clan gauntlet, in division 2 with some familiar clans such as jams and 4k.
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i just saw a link to this over on cyberfight.org. it's an article written by some guy who has a rather sarcastic opinion on the cpl. perhaps all 'normal' people have the same opinion.
here's a snip...
i guess that's the amusing part. as is indicated on the website, the cpl was launched to "...establish computer game competitions as a viable spectator sport." that's funny. that's very, very funny. can you see tommy jackson and stuart scott on espn covering the big unreal tournament championship? can you see 67,000 fans packed into the new seahawks stadium to watch a couple guys play half-life or jazz jackrabbit 2? move over, baseball, there's a new national pasttime in town!
you can read the rest here.
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i'm on a bit of a quake 2 rant tonight alright, but those of you who own a dreamcast will be happy to know that quake 2 has been ported over to the dreamcast. you might know that quake 1 has been available for the dc for ages now.
download quake 2 dc from
href="http://homebrew.dcemulation.com/quake2.htm">dc homebrew
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another mod along the lines of tenebrae, this quake 2 engine modification adds enhanced graphical features such as a dynamically lit particle engine, quake 3 style stain maps, spheremapping and detail textures to name but a few.
check out
href="http://www.planetquake.com/quake2max">quake2max
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there's been a change in the law over in greece meaning that computer gaming in general is forbidden. this includes arcades, consoles, pda and cell phone games etc. even in the privacy of your own home.
i saw this over on esreality. there's a petition up in protest now that you can sign.
an interesting topic for debate, or a cheap shot at changing the topic ? you decide.
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while dossing around and gawking at sites, i see that ek have a nice in-depth config guide done up on their site, have a look
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bigfoots week 6 tdm review is up on quakenation, go have a read.
to summarize the irish end of things, nd lost to mvc over two maps on wednesday, and pulled a draw against ek last night, keeping them in 5th position in div2b, while fh lost to wz on wednesday, keeping them in 7th place in 3c. (7th out of 10).
next week is important for both teams to make sure they stay out of relegation's way.
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nvidia has released a new version of their detonator win xp/2000 drivers, 40.41 this time.
"up to a 25% increase in performance"
sounds interesting..
download the new nvidia detonator drivers
if you're having low refreshrates there's a working fix at majorgeeks.com. seeing as most of the old fixes didn't work with the new drivers.
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i just stumbled across this. it's a new legoman model for quake3. it seems that whoever made this has a lot of time on their hands!
"the legoman is a tour de force of modelling and skinning prowess. on the surface, this model is very simple. simple geometric shapes and simple solid color skins make up this model, but closer inspection shows an attention to detail and style that is rare. as you can see, the legoman model is very versatile and completely customizable including hats, helmets, swords, shields, and peg legs."
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bigfoot send some recent news about the league servers and some ideas on what their going to do to improve q3 games on them.
following recent discussions on the admin mailing list, on public news sites and with arqon (the author of the popular cpm mod and someone with great knowledge of the way q3 works) i have decided that from this sunday onwards we will start to change the settings of the bw league servers in an
effort to further improve the connection quality players have whilst playing their league games (and others).
the first stage of this will be changing the sv_fps on the tdm & ctf league servers from 20 to 25.
this change should, as i understand it, gives a more accurate picture of what the actual state of the game is for people playing in it and effectively reduces your ping by some a varying amount. unfortunately osp currently does not have a minsnaps command so players must ensure that their snaps are set to at least 25 (simply bring down your console and type /snaps 25), you can use higher values but if you choose to do so it is reommended that you use a number which divides into 100 without recurring (for example 40 or 50). i know some of you use the values 30, 1337 or 666 as your snaps setting but as i understand it if you continue to use these settings you might not get the full benefit of this change due to rounding issues in q3's netcode.
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from "barrysworld:
gta3 vice city website
rockstar games have put up their gta3 vice city website. on the site you can get a trailer showing some in game footage and a handful of screenshots to look at.
private dancer
kaboom studios have undertaken a rather unique project for the pc gamer market. by gambling and winning against computer generated strippers, you get to see them perform for you.... check out their website here.
from shackes:
fragmart 2002 results
one of canada's biggest lans, fragmart, took place in british columbia over the weekend. you can see the results on shackes.
russian paper reports on quakecon 2002
some russian technology newspaper went esports crazy recently, and did a full page spread about the results at quakecon 2002. the bulk of the page is an interview with lexer, the homecountry hero that won the first prize. there's also an interview/picture with daler, however, which creates the strange situation where daler has appeared in a russian newspaper, but not in an american one. image.
from esreality:
esports pro q3 2v2 tournament
doubleteam2 is on the horizon, and it got a huge response from the north american quake 3 community with over 130 teams signing up. with this comes another promising quake 3 2v2 tournament, but in lan form. esportspro has announced they will be running a small quake 3 2v2 lan event in tampa, fl this weekend. with more and more competitions being offered for quake 3, this could mean the revival of quake 3 in the us.
from qwplayers.org:
name your baby turok
there's funny article on qwplayers.org and it's real.
"video game publisher acclaim entertainment inc. said on tuesday it will give $10,000 in savings bonds to the first family to have a child on september 1 and name it "turok," after acclaim's new game of the same name to be released on that day."
read the full story here.
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