It’s not our tradition to report about news that’s not about Quake Live, but this time we just had to make an exception.
Over the past few weeks DerQuaker.com, together with own3d.tv, organized a Quake 3 movie contest sponsored by Dell. The requirements were that the video was about Quake 3 and lasted no longer than 99 seconds.
The prizes included a Dell Mini 9 Netbook for first place and cash money for all top 3 finishers.
Spontangames.de is making it a tradition to organize a duel cup on a monthly basis. Their past editions (edition #1 and edition #2) have been a success so I can only cheer for this! Details Location: [europe] Europe Registration start: open for registration! Registration end: When full Places: 32 Game Type: Duel Event date: 05/04/2009
After having recently launched a Quake Live ladder, ESL.eu yesterday announced their Quake Live spring league, which will run from 30 March to 31 May.
A league system is different from the ladder format though, so allow me to explain the system for those who are not familiar with it yet.
Groupstage
After having signed up, all competitors are being placed into several groups. Each player has to play against all other players in their group. If you win a match against a player, you get points. If you win enough matches and end near the top of your group, you advance to the playoffs.
The playoffs
Once you reach the playoffs all players will be organized into brackets. From now on, if you’re knocked out, you’re out of the league.
In order to make the Quake Live community strong and long lasting, we need both oldskool and new players to keep playing the game. Many experienced Quake players know their way around the game to have it look and feel exactly as they want. For new players, this is chaos. The flood of questions on the #quakelive irc channel proves this.
We from Holysh1t saw this flood coming and started preparing some important pages to help those players feel comfortable in playing and fine tuning the game.
About a week ago we announced a restyling of this website. We kept our promise and here it is! The old design was limited in options and a reorganization of the layout was badly needed.
Although the new design might still be a bit buggy the first few days, most things should be running smoothly if you’re running IE7+. Bugs in IE6 will be fixed later on.
Either way… Lets review some of the major improvements in this theme.
Probably the most exciting event of the year for all quake fans, QuakeCon, is coming! The new QuakeCon 2009 website tells us all about it.
This year’s event will be held at the Hilton Anatole – Dallas, Texas from Aug 13th – 16th. This means you can combine a great gaming experience with a luxurious stay at one of the famous Hilton hotels.
It’s been 10 days since Quake Live went public beta. The press and interest for the game proved to be overwhelming and totally unexpected, as many first timers had to queue up for hours and hours trying to play the game for the very first time.
Today things have settled, the queue system has been removed and things are running smooth again.
Now that everybody has had the chance to test the game we were wondering what your first impression of Quake Live was, the very first time you played.
You can rate your first impression from a number from 0 to 5 and optionally share your thoughts in the comments.
Complexity Gaming is organizing a Quake Live movie contest. The contest was announced February 27th, so the news reached us a bit late. You’ve only got time until 20 March 2009 to submit your entry, so if you still want to participate, better get started now!
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