EUQL.org Interview with reigning Quake Live champion Cypher

The guys at EUQL recently did an interview with 2008's Quakecon and ESWC Quake (Live) champion Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevksy.

Everybody was allowed to send in questions for the young Belarusian which resulted in some mildly interesting conversation:

How do you turn the tides of a game when the opponent has item-locked you? (Cabelekse)
That depends a bit on my opponent. When you play someone like Av3k, it is very different to get control back then when you play an aimbased player. So either you wait till your opponent makes a timing mistake or like in Av3ks case you need to show extreme patience cause he doesnt make a lot of timing mistakes. You need to get well positioned so you can draw first blood if it comes to a fight or gradually wear his health/armor down.

See Cypher in action at the 2008 Quakecon finals at Quakeunity.com to see what all the fuss is about... or head straight to EUQL.org to read the full Cypher interview.

djWHEAT talks with pro-gaming guru Slasher about Quake Live

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:

Carmack & Stratton Quake Live interview at QuakeUnity.com

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.