The upcoming Wolfenstein title has been reviewed by August's edition of Game Informer and subsequently leaked by the kind people at the yoyogames forum. The upcoming title so far hinted at being called 'Secret War' has been previewed mainly from its Single Player narrative, though there are extensive in game screenshots that certainly wet the appetite of fans of the story. In addition to that there is one line regarding the multiplayer, stating it will follow in the footsteps of Wolfenstein: Enemy Teritory.

The title is being developed on the ID Tech 4 engine by Raven, though multiplayer is being handled by Threewave (though their was no mention of them in the article). The game is set for simultaneous release on XBOX, PC & PS3 next year.

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Column - Play it again Sam

Scheduled: 11:30 CDT, 19 July 2008 to 15:30 CDT, 19 July 2008
Schedule: Passed

Another cpm tourney will take place this Saturday organized by the Russian Promode Community. This time it will be pure cpm ctf. hf!

Information:
Date: 11:30 CDT, 19 July 2008 - 15:30 CDT, 19 July 2008
Game: Challenge Promode 1.46
Rules: Single Elimination, best of three, random seed
Mappool: cpmctf2, cpmctf3, cpmctf4
Admins: toy, lisk, death
IRC channel: #play.cpm on Quakenet
Signup Limit: 8 teams

Bracket will be available here

The signups are open from now till 19 July 11:00 CDT. You can signup here

The ESWC Masters event in Paris was the first big test on how well he could do in Quake 3 for Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager. It did not bring a definite answer, as the hero of the PainKiller era lost to k1llsen and lnk1n but took maps from czm and ZeRo4 who topped the group.

Where is this fascinating individual's place among the elite of Quake 3 players, how he handles the new experience of losing in practice all the time and why he is not affected by the shutdown of Amsterdam's Red Light District? The answers can be found in the video interview below:

Shack's Nick Breckon had a chance to talk with id Software co-founder John Carmack and executive producer Marty Stratton. The focus of the interview is obviously on Quake Live but there is some crazy talk on PC gaming and even iPhone development. Here's a snippet:

Shack: Getting back to Quake Live--is the plan still for the game to be totally ad-supported?

John Carmack: We think that there may eventually be some kind of--I think that there will likely be some kind of premium subscription at some point, but we really don't know what it is. We don't know what we want to offer.

It would not be eliminating the ads, because the ads are actually--if you turned the ads off in the game, it would look worse. The game is so wrapped around this kind of ESPN-ish look and feel that if all of those turned into blank billboards, it would be a detraction from that experience rather than any kind of enhancement...

Head on to the Shack for the whole piece.

Here are two more interviews from ESWC Masters in Paris. Enjoy!

Interview with SK|Rapha
As one of the newer player Rapha hopes to gain a lot of experience from playing at ESWC Masters.

Interview with Noctis
DDK is interviewing Noctis in this video and Nocits just loves the camera. We were outside, so I hope you can hear it all even if it’s windy sometimes.

Time for another season of the successful rookie tournament, now with a new crew under it's wings.
Anni Making head-way and setting the Ignition3 tournament up. This online tournament has opened it's signups today and aims to get new players into the game.



The IRC channel for this competition is #ignition.qw on Quakenet, there's also a neighbor channel #qwrookie Both packed with friendly people who will help you out after you have downloaded nQuake

Signup will be open 2 weeks as of today


Visit the Ignition website

Noobs Anonymous will organize another Challenge Promode duel cup for beginning players.

This edition is intended for people inexperienced with CPM and also for people who are curious to try it. It's aimed towards european players so matches will be played on euro servers.

Registration will open 45 minutes in advance of the tournament. (11:15 CDT). If you want to play make sure you're on IRC in #cpma.na on QuakeNet.


Visit the following link for the Cup's website noobs-anonymous.net

According to fnatic.com and serious-gaming.com, ESWC masters winner Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky joined serious gaming and will from now on train with av3k for the upcoming final event in San Jose.

Related Links:
serious-gaming.com/articles
fnatic.com/news

At ESWC Masters in Paris I made some video interviews and here are the first ones out. It takes a few days for Dailymotion to code the movies in high quality, so the ZeRo4 video is the only high quality now, but hopefully the others will be as good shortly.

Interview with ZeRo4
This interview was made early in the tournament where only a few games had been played. You get to know his opinions of the different Quake3 maps and what he has been up to last year.

Interview with Anouc
Anouc is an old school Quake player. At ESWC Masters she competed with her CS team Badgirlsclan and they won a spot an the ESWC Finals. She talks about her CS team and also about Quake Live.

Interview with Jibo
Jibo talks about how he has prepared for ESWC Masters and how he and Cooller will prepare for the next event.

**UPDATE
Interview with czm
The interview was made in the beginning of the tournament. Find out why czm prefers dm13 over nodm9 and how he as an old school player might have some advantages against the new school players.

http://www.dailymotion.com/tritoproductions/v...ideogames”>Interview with 4K^DDK
An interview with DDK while we were having lunch. This interview got banned from Dailymotion because of obscene language, so I had to censor it in this version. DDK has a unusual way to prepare for Quake 3 tournaments… He plays WarCraft 3.

Interview with fox
An interview with fox after the final game against Cypher. Fox talks about his games in the tournament. You will also get an answer to the question: “fox or fojji?”

I will have more interviews up in some days, uploading takes a while.

Sports weekly a new show from Wipido, Xleague and QuadV bringing you your weekly 'dabble' with all things competitive gaming has returned for episode 6.

This weeks dabble is all things ESWC Masters, with extended highlights of both the Quake & CounterStrike tournaments from the semi finals onwards. In addition to that there are interviews with both Quake and CS Winners! Make sure you catch this weeks episode as its 100% gamefootage and interviews!


Watch it HERE

id Software Announces Competitive Event Lineup for QuakeCon™ 2008

MESQUITE, Texas – July 9, 2008 – The thermometer is rising and it’s time to warm up those keyboards and controllers as the QuakeCon tournaments are upon us.  QuakeCon 2008 will play host to a diverse and exciting line-up of events for competitive gamers, including the first ever Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars™ console game tournament, the return of the any-one-can-win Quick Draw contests and the debut of competitions using QUAKE LIVE™.  The Tournaments will take place during the 13th annual QuakeCon which is being held at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas from July 31 – August 3.  More than 6,000 gamers from around the world are expected to attend the four-day event.

The QuakeCon 2008 Competitive Event Lineup is: 

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The Intel QUAKE LIVE Championships
QuakeCon 2008 will mark the debut of the first-ever Intel QUAKE LIVE Championships pro tournament.  QUAKE LIVE is id Software’s new game created to deliver the excitement and energy of a first-person multiplayer  game to a broader audience through a free and easily accessible browser-based experience.  The Intel QUAKE LIVE Championships will feature a classic $12,500 One Versus One tournament along with a $12,500 Capture the Flag Team Tournament.  

The Activision Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Team Championships
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars™ makes its second annual tournament appearance with the Activision Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Team Championships.  Featuring competitions on both PC and for the first time on Xbox 360, the tournament contests will enlist six-person teams to battle it out in double-elimination bracket-style competitive play, in which each squad will have the chance to attack and defend.  On the Windows PC side, 16 teams will compete for $15,000 in prize money and in the Xbox 360 competition, eight teams will vie for $10,000 in prizes.

The Alienware Quick-Draw Challenge
For anyone who’s dreamed of competing for prize money on the QuakeCon main stage, the Alienware Quick-Draw Challenge offers $10,000 in prize money to randomly selected attendees competing in special QUAKE LIVE competitions throughout the course of the event.    

In addition to their prize money, the top 2 finalists and teams in each of the above competitive tournament events will also be given tickets to the previously announced “QuakeCon Ultimate Power Up” raffle contest, sponsored by Ventrilo, for the brand new 2008 Corvette.  Additional raffle tickets and eligibility will be subject to contest rules.

“QuakeCon 2008 will be the grand slam of competitive gaming with the best games and an amazing prize list,” said Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software.  “We’ve partnered with our sponsors this year to bring the top competitive players what they want most: skill based games, top money prizes, the most enthusiastic fans and audience and the world’s best Finals party!”  

More information, including map names, prize money distribution, detailed format and rules, and sign-ups for both tournaments will be available soon at www.quakecon.org.

QuakeCon Ultimate Power Up Rules:
QuakeCon 2008 registered attendees who are 18 years of age and older AND are legal residents of the United States, its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia are eligible to participate.  No purchase necessary.  250 raffle tickets will be distributed throughout the event.  Additional information about contest rules, eligibility and requirements will be available at www.quakecon.org.

 

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The independent computer and video game magazine website Kikizo (mind you it's not Japanese) has a brand new interview with id Software's CEO Todd Hollenshead. He talks about Rage, the overwhelming id Tech 5 engine and what it means to the games industry at large. Here's a snipped:

Kikizo: To what extent would you say that id is in competition with Epic, both now and moving forwards?

Todd: Todd: Certainly from a licensing standpoint I think that right now those guys are quite frankly the industry leader, and we're obviously in competition with them because we're going to be talking to the same people about licensing our technology for similar types of games. I think that what they do with their tech is different than we do with ours in a number of respects, and so maybe there are some people that our technology fits a little bit better with; maybe there are some people that they have a better fit with Epic. And I expect that you will see that. But I really do think that regardless of whatever your preconceived notions of that technology are, if you're looking for something as a multiplatform solution, if you don't take a hard look at id Tech 5, then you are making a very, very bad mistake. Probably a mistake that ought to cost you your job.

The entire interview with this fascinating individual and Rage's lead designer Matt Hooper, is right here.

Movie from Quake Nations cup by Legie. Directed and made by silu.hf.

Creator: silu
Game: Quake 3 Arena
Type: Frag Highlights
Length: 15m13s
Size: 525 Megs
Resolution: 1280x720
Codec: x264

Here are a selection of short video interviews from some of this years Quake III ESWC participants. Featuring...
(fooKi, CZM, Av3k, Zero4, Jibo, vo0, Matrox, Chance, Rapha)

Thanks to Sting (Matr0x's twin brother) and FXTV.