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Quakecon 2008 Experience Video

I was browsing the QuakeCon forums when I came across this video and I asked the author if he would upload it here to QuakeUnity. It's a pretty funny and professionally done video by Death-Toaster which gives you a view of his experience at this past QuakeCon. You'll get to check our the party elevators, Ninjas attacking people, and the BYOC. Here on QuakeUnity, we tend to focus on certain aspects of QuakeCon such as the conferences and tournaments and neglect to give everyone an idea of how fun QuakeCon really is. This video will give you a good sense of what the event is really like.

id Releases Rage In-Game Trailer

Over a year after the public saw the first footage of id Software's upcoming "Rage" at QuakeCon 2007, you can finally download an official in-game trailer. It's the same trailer shown to the public at QuakeCon 2008 and featured on this site and many others via camcorder footage. Now you can experience "Rage" in a high definition H264 file.

QuakeCon 2008 CTF Finals & Awards Video

Video of the Quake Live CTF championship match between billymaysdaze and rage at QuakeCon 2008 is now available. The video includes both maps played by the teams; Q3CTF3 "The Stronghold" and Q3CTF2 "Troubled Waters" along with video of the award ceremony. Commentary for both maps are provided by Stuart "Django" Ewen and Rod "Slasher" Breslau. Download & Stream The Video

Upper Bracket CTF Video Set

A video set of the three maps played between billymaysdaze (cloud9) and inninitforthe$ in the top of the winners bracket at QuakeCon 2008 is now available. I had hoped on having the CTF Finals video available this morning, but I found some problems with the video and have to re-render and upload the new footage. Downloads: Map1 | Map2 | Map3

QuakeCon 08 1vs1 Finals Video!

Video of the championship match between SK-ZeRo4 and cypher in the first ever QuakeLive 1vs1 tournament at QuakeCon 2008. The video includes both matches played between ZeRo4 and cypher on qztourney7 'Furious Heights' and qztourney4 'Vertical Vengeance II' along with video of the award ceremony. Commentary for both maps are provided by Stuart "Django" Ewen and Rod "Slasher" Breslau. You can check out the rest of the tournament videos released here and you can expect the QuakeLive CTF finals video to be released tomorrow. Download:QuakeCon 2008 1v1 Finals & Awards The video is available for download in high or low quality WMV and H264 files along with the option to stream the video via Flash in standard quality or a H264 high quality.

QuakeCon Videos & Pictures

Our QuakeCon 2008 image gallery is now online and I am working hard on getting our tournament coverage up as fast as possible. Here's what's available at the moment: -QuakeCon 2008 1v1: fox vs. cypher: Map1 -QuakeCon 2008 1v1: chance vs. carnage Map1 -QuakeCon 08 CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map1 -QuakeCon 08 CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map2 -QuakeCon 08 CTF: rage vs. inninitforthe$ Map3 I'm also trying to put together some video of Carmack's keynote at QuakeCon. As mentioned earlier, we had technical difficulties as the result of rushing to setup our equipment properly. Thanks Wendy! ;p Once all our of videos are up, I will start on an article detailing my entire QuakeCon 08 experience.

id Press Conference & Carmack Keynote Hightlights

A much smaller than usual crowd was on hand to listen to id Software's press conference followed by John Carmack's keynote here at QuakeCon 2008. The main highlights of the press conference were the official DOOM4 announcement and the announcement of Wolfenstien RPG and Doom II RPG from id Mobile, the cell phone gaming division of the company. Very little new information was given about id's upcoming title Rage. Compared to last year's very exciting announcements of Quake Live and the Wolfenstein movie, this year was fairly uneventful. In John Carmack's keynote, the id Software president and technical director started off his keynote address discussing the issue of id's rapid growth. The company was tired of having very long development cycles as they did with DOOM3 and had to expand to keep up with modern development times. Carmack said the company will continue to expand even greater and hire additional help to complete Rage. Most of the keynote was devoted to mobile game development and the rewarding feeling Carmack gets from completing a game in such a short period of time. He talked about the problems associated with getting a mobile game published properly on distribution channels and that using well know game titles such as DOOM greatly helps with sales. Carmack spent a great deal of time praising the iPhone, but was unhappy that id Modile does not have a game of the platform yet. The iPhone, which Carmack said is more powerful than a Nintendo DS and Sony PSP combined, offers developers a SDK which provides developers a platform on which to design games with graphics on par with Sega's Dreamcast. John Carmack and fellow id programmer Robert Dufy even ported "Orcs & Elves" over to the iPhone to test out its capabilities, but were unhappy with the results. In the meantime, id Mobile is looking to hire additional programmers to work on future iPhone projects. Carmack then moved on the talk about id Software's upcoming projects such as the single player focused DOOM4. The DOOM4 project has replaced the next QUAKE series game in id's development time line. Although DOOM4 will be single player focused, Carmack assured the crowd multiplayer support will be better than anything DOOM3 had to offer. Discussing QuakeLive, discussed many of the same topics he has talked about in previous interviews in recent weeks. At the present time, QuakeLive has no plays for official mod support but will have support for custom maps. Concerning a SDK for developers, if one comes, will be over a year away. Carmack reiterated has he has many times before that he enjoyed Quake3 the most out of all the id title's and that QuakeLive is something that he has alot of faith in. Carmack said he hopes to see a new generation of gamers flock to QuakeLive and if they enjoy the game enough, he believed they would advance to the regular Quake3 and help grow that community. After Carmack discussed mobile gaming and QuakeLive, he reverted back to the old days of keynotes where technical ramble was the prominent topic. In this section of the keynote, Carmack said that the hardware does not even exist yet for what would need to power idTech6. Yes, that's right, IdTech6! He also mentioned that currently the idTech5 engine is in the hands of other developers and that Linux ports of future games were very very low on their list of priorities. Video and pictures will follow tomorrow most likely.

Win a QuakeLive Beta Key

Quake.cz has one free Quake Live beta key and they have decided to prepare a special competition for Czech and Slovakian players to win the key. Now, since invites into the beta are closed, it is fastest way how to join Quake Live. This tourney will take place on Saturday July 26th at 14:00 CEST. Players can sign up by e-mailing czechquake@gmail.com with their nick, name and nationality. Deadline for sing ups is Saturday at 12:00 CEST.