A few things while I'm here:

• We are seeing reports of problems connecting to servers because pak013.pk4 is missing. That's the QuakeMas maps, which you can get from our ftp [1] and mirrors. The final installer for 1.1 will bundle QuakeMas maps and several new maps so that will go away.
  
  
• The Linux client does not support SMP or VoiceChat at this point.
  
  
• The SMP code in Quake 4 takes advantage of multiple cores for rendering purposes only. It will not affect dedicated server performance at all. It will not send both of your CPUs to 100% usage either.

How did you beta test QUAKE 4?

Activision (the distributor for QUAKE 4) has a large Quality Assurance division and they beat the heck out of the game. We also had countless hours of our own time playing and playing the game and looking for issues (both balance and bug issues as well as a good “fun” pass.) Lastly, we had a (very) small private beta for the multiplayer side of things to check out how the game would run for the average user at home.

Valve's Robin Walker, designer/engineer on Episode 1, informed us that Episode 2 "has been in development for some time" in an interview that'll be winging its way to you shortly. Although he didn't elaborate further, it sounds as though Episode 2 may appear sooner than we could have hoped. We're definitely keeping trigger fingers crossed on that one, especially as the developer has aimed to offer "between 4 to 6 hours" of gameplay time with Episode 1, according to Walker - shorter, perhaps, than fans might have expected.

Q. How did RO stick around? I mean we see so many WW2 mods claiming they are so much better than every one else and claim to be so different but and up dying because everyone already has a favorite?

A. Red Orchestra is more sim oriented then most currently available WW2 games. This approach already made for a very different game play experience in the MOD, on which we vastly expand in the retail game. Playing RO is just 'different' and, in my eyes, a next step in WW2 FPS mainstream gaming. People who are open to new experiences will have a good time switching over to RO.

This is the BETA of our broad QUAKE 4 update. It fixes issues and adds gameplay elements throughout both single and multiplayer including voice chat in multiplayer, a forecemodel option, a one-minute warning for tournament matches, fixed pure server autodownloading, Hyper-Threading Technology support, smooth stairjumping and a ton of multiplayer specific fixes which have been requested by the community and discovered during our own gameplay. In short, multiplayer is fixed. ;) For a complete list of new features, fixes, and changes, please see the ReadMe file.

This update will bring any previous version of the game completely up to date, however it will affect pure server and protocol consistency. Therefore, players who update to 1.1 BETA will only be able to play multiplayer against other 1.1 BETA users, and save games created on previous versions of the game will not be compatible with the 1.1 BETA update. Please use the form at www.idsoftware.com/bugs/ to report any issues you find with the 1.1 BETA update.

Once we are satisfied the 1.1 BETA is completely solid, we will release the FINAL 1.1 update. This will be a required update and will be available through the Update option in the game. With that release, we'll also be including 4 all-new multiplayer maps in addition to the QUAKEMAS map pack (3 maps) that was released in December.

We are currently working with the mod team community to deliver the 1.1 SDK and bring their mods current as soon as possible. Lastly, stay tuned in the coming months for additional free game content including new maps and gametypes.

3 - Pee Ess Three

The plan was simple - two shooter franchises - Unreal Tournament for the PC, Unreal Championship for the consoles.

Now, we have nothing against consoles, much less the PS3 (which if we are to believe Sony comes with its own personal jetpack, allows you to lose weight while playing and doubles the size of your penis). However, after the hideous abortion that was Unreal Championship 1, you'll forgive us for being a tad worried to hear that UT2007 will be coming to the Sony's next-gen box of tricks as well as the PC.

In order for UT2007 to be done right, it needs to be first and foremost a PC title. Hopefully Epic won't lose sight of this while developing UT2007 for PS3 alongside the PC version.

"A lot of videogame companies are wrong in how they support videogame-based movies, because they get a fee for the licence and then don't do anything to promote the movie."

"They don't do videogame tie-ins, they don't do cross promotions... They count on the fact that the movie will support the game sales, but they're not willing to spend any money in cross-promoting anything. This is not healthy."

"The reality is that a lot of the videogame companies are quite sloppy - they are happy to sell the licence, but then they don't give a sh** about it, and this is not the right approach."

"I personally think that with the budget they've planned, Halo will be a failure. I think Halo will not make the money back in the end."

GtkRadiant is the heavily modified version of QERadiant and Q3Radiant (id's level editors used during Quake II and Quake III Arena development). It runs on Microsoft Windows platforms, GNU/Linux, MacOS X, and supports level editing for many id technology games.