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Quake Addicts
This site is for the Quake addict in all of us. Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Quake IV and now QuakeLive. We are all id fans, so anything id goes. It's a site for us addicts to get together and post our thoughts and ideas about the games. If you have a clan with no home, we can add a forum section for you. All comers welcome. You can add your screen caps of that high score game so you have a place to show your friends. So come on in, and join the group, post in the Forum, and don't forget, admitting your addicted, is half the problem.
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QuakeLive open to the public!!!
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A week or so late, but I've been playing. QuakeLive is open to the public. It's still in Beta, but open, none the less. The gameplay is much the same as Quake 3 Arena, but with small changes. They nerfed down a little bit, removing the gibs (gore) and changing some of the weapon damage. (removing gibs to appeal to a wider audience) Added some of the Team Arena powerups and old Quake 2 weapons. Re-worked the maps and added new ones. All in all it's a great game. Add the fact that it's free, and you can bet most gamers will love it. Go on over and check it out. It takes a few minutes to register, and a small (30 odd meg download) and your off to training. After the short training session you can play away online.
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| Posted by div (356 Reads) |
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GNi to Host New id Software QUAKE LIVE Title
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FTA... "GNi, a leading provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) hosting solutions, announced today that is has been selected by id Software(TM) to facilitate the delivery of QUAKE LIVE(TM), an innovative and free-to-play online multiplayer shooter experience based on the popular QUAKE Arena games."
Read the fulll story HERE
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| Posted by div (389 Reads) |
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CVG spoke with John Carmack about Quake Live!
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Carmack discusses pro's and con's of Quake live and assures us, "We're in no way shutting down the original Q3A scene, so anybody who wants to build things with the open-source code is still more than free to do so. That may even become a proving ground for moving things into Quake Live." Short but interesting read. Read the full article HERE.
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| Posted by div (468 Reads) |
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QuakeLive Played at Quakecon 2008
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Awesome in game video from QuakeCon 2008 of Quakelive 1v1 final for $15,000. Young kid wins against old school player. Have a look HERE.
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| Posted by div (510 Reads) |
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Quake live site goes live.
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Finally, the QuakeLive site has content. They have a video that purports to show in-game footage with all the info about the latest incarnation of Quake. You can also click on the characters next to the video and they will change into another character. Looks like we're getting close to a release by the looks of the site. Fingers crossed!!
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| Posted by div (544 Reads) |
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Quake Zero given a new name.
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id has decided to call it QuakeLive. There are some write-ups at several different sites and a beta testing program you can sign up for at Quakelive.com I also found some screenshots at VoodooExtreme. Have a look and sign up for the beta program. If anyone gets into the beta program, I hope you come and update us all on the game and release date etc.
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| Posted by div (865 Reads) |
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Quake Zero not actually in web-browser.
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FTA, "Quake Zero has been billed as a free, browser-based game of Quake 3 Arena supported by advertising revenue, but those of you worried that it'll be written in Java or something can rest easy - id's Steve Nix tells us it just uses the browser to get going." Read the full article Here.
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| Posted by div (1059 Reads) |
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John Carmack - Second team at id Software, and Quake Zero
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John Carmack talks about adding a second team at id Software to speed developement, and the release of an online free version of Quake 3 called QuekeZero that will be played through a browser and be able to be played on virtually any hardware. Check out the video Here.
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| Posted by div (1063 Reads) |
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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo is out.
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Description from Gamers Hell. "The Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars(TM) PC Demo (Multiplayer & Single-Player) comes with the final version of Valley, one of the larger battlegrounds in the game. Set in Yosemite, California, Valley has the Global Defense Force on the attack, as they attempt to foil a Strogg contamination plot centering on a water treatment facility. Valley features a great blend of close quarters infantry action, vehicle battles and aircraft dogfights, and the varied terrain combining mountains, waterways, tunnels and industrial structures allows for many different playing styles. To top it all off, there's a multitude of optional side missions and plenty of opportunities to try out the various defense turrets, artillery and radar deployables - Valley is a prime example of the frantic and diverse action you'll find in Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. The demo also features ETQW's bots, so you can explore the map and gameplay in single-player mode with computer-controlled opponents, or use the bots to fill up empty slots on multiplayer servers. We are also including the standalone server as well as the server launcher tool, so you can host your own online and LAN games."
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| Posted by div (1110 Reads) |
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Punkbuster installing services on your computer.
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I hadn't played Quake3 in a while since I had issues with my computer. I recently upgraded My PC and decided to see how much I'd lost since the last time I played. I have a fresh install of Windows XP and I am keeping things running clean and smooth (not like my last install) by not installing every piece of crap that comes along. I had saved my Quake III directory so I wouldn't have to download all the maps and mods. I copied it back over and fired up the game. OK, I expected Punkbuster to have to update, but it was taking forever. I ran pbweb and in 30 seconds or so, I'm good to go. I play for a few games (I lost allot since I last played) and closed out the game. Now I'm installing my trusty Photoshop and check my startup items in msconfig. Photoshop has a bad habit of starting things with the system that run all the time. I don't like that. I want programs to start their stuff when I start it, not when they think it would be best. And in poking around to make sure I got everything, I find PnkBstrA.exe running in the background. I check my startup again, no, not there, so I check the services, and there it is. What the heck is this for. I do a Google search and find out that Punkbuster has started installing a service without notifying me. No warning, no "by the way", nothing. This is something I would think they should tell you. It HAS to be running to play, so it is sucking resources on my computer whether I'm playing or not. It runs 24/7 unless I want to go in and stop and start the service when I play. This sucks. Read their FAQ for the story they give about installing a service on your PC without your knowledge.
This may be old news to you Quake fans, but I haven't played in months, and it sure is news to me. Maybe there is a patch or hack out there so I can start it with the game and when I quit the game, the service will be stopped. This little pest is the kind of thing that killed my last install. Little gems that get installed without you knowing about it. I wonder if you un-installed Quake3 if this PB service would be removed also, or left behind. It is talking to it's server and "Updating" punkbuster. Hmm, what else is it doing?
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| Posted by div (1140 Reads) |
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