Tonight shoutcast legend djWHEAT and pro-gaming guru Slasher will be talking about Quake Live in the 5th episode of the Live On Three: The Pro-Gaming podcast, at djWHEAT.tv. The show airs at 7 PM EST / 1 CET (Feb 26th) and phone calls will be taken.
For those who don’t know who either djWHEAT or Slasher are, here’s a short introduction:
Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham is a legend in the Quake community. After having shoutcasted some of the biggest and most memorable Quake 3 tournaments in history, djWHEAT went on to work for the Championship Gaming Series. Upon the recent failure of the Championship Gaming Series in November 2008, djWHEAT announced his return to both the Quake scene and his podcast shows Epileptic Gaming & Live On Three at djWHEAT.tv, promising a return to his good old no bullsh1t style of commentating.
Rob “Slasher” Breslau is deeply rooted and well connected in the internet gaming industry. Slasher headed sections of some of the largest gaming websites such as Gotfrag, SK-Gaming and Gameriot. In addition to that, Slasher also makes his presence known as a shoutcaster at some of the biggest Quake events in the world. His most recent appearance being at the 2008 Quakecon finals.
A stream of this episode is embedded below:
The Quake Live developers have recently created the IRC channel #quakelive.support, exclusively dedicated to troubleshooting players facing technical difficulties in Quake Live. So far most questions have been related to the queue system. The volunteers helping out in #quakelive.support have made it clear that it’s currently id software’s top priority to fix the queue system.
One day after the Quake Live public beta release, QuakeUnity published this interview with Marty Stratton, producer of QuakeLive and John Carmack, id Software‘s co-founder and lead programmer.
In this interview, John and Marty discuss several aspects of Quake Live such as backend infrastructure, their work with mod authors to bring additional features to the game and the hiring of developers from inside the Quake community.
Quake Live player FLeeck has created #quakelive.wars, an IRC channel for clans/teams looking to scrimmage against other clans/teams (also known as ‘wars’), regardless of the game-type or region. Instead of having millions of channels that serve same purpose, you connect the EU community and US through one channel where you can search out wars. A
As reported earlier this week, the Quake Live open beta is released today! The Quake Live closed beta website permanently shut down about 36 hours ago to prepare for the grand opening. All we could see these last few hours was a timer, slowly counting down to 0.
A lot of questions remained unanswered. The id software developers have done a great job teasing the community during the closed beta. Right before the site went offline, we were able to find a forum post by the developers, revealing very interesting information.
To all Quake Live rookies: grab your chance and start competing! The well known community Czech Quake will be hosting a Newbie 2 Lama Tournament.
This will be the ideal opportunity to learn the game and get to know the people in the community.
Details
- Registration start: Now!
- Registration end: Feb 28th, 2009
- Game Type: Duel
- Basic groups start: Mar 1st, 2009
- Rules: Best Of 3
- IRC: #quakelive.newbie
Today, February 20th 2009, exactly one year since the closed beta for Quake Live was launched, id software announces they will soon start the open beta fase of the Quake Live project. The exact date planned for the public release is 24th of February, which from today is in exactly 4 days. Open beta consequences
Two weeks ago we did a poll here where we asked about your Quake Live FOV. Nearly 400 people voted and the clear winner, with over 40% of the votes, was the 101 – 110 FOV setting.
Today we’re going to continue the trend of having a regular poll. This time we’re curious enough to ask you all how much time you spend every week playing Quake Live.
You can very easily check your play time for the last 7 days in the leaderboards by using the customize option.
Today ESL.eu announced a new Quake Live duel ladder! Everybody is free to participate and you can sign up any time you want. Details Location: [europe] Europe Type: Ladder Game Type: Duel (best of 1) Maps: qzdm6, qzdm13, tourney4, tourney6, tourney7 Prizes: Pride and honour. info: 1on1 Ladder info IRC: #esl.quakelive This is the second
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