IGN Meeting

Update time! I was in Dublin yesterday for assorted meetings with IGN and Tinet staff, pretty happy with the way they went and I can see big things happening after the summer.

Without giving too much away, IGN now comprises of a number of sections including quake.ie, gamer.ie, kali.ie and the forthcoming gamescon.ie - each section is then represented by their head on the IGN council.

Did you spot a guy in GI uniform wandering the streets of the capital city yesterday? I was expecting to encounter some of the CT, II or Ebola patrol groups, but as you can see from this photo I met no resistance along the way.

Mystery Guest Identified

At long last I have solved the mystery of the other UCG Quake player we came upon once. Apart from Mouserat and myself, there are no other Quake 1 players in UCG anymore. Dinky was revealed today as being none other than CD_EarthwormJim, and I managed to dig up an image from my archives showing one of his first forays onto our server.

PureDM on quake.ie Q2

If you’re a Quake 2 fan you will have noticed we have added a new voting mod to our quake.ie servers, q2ffa1, q2war1 and duel1. Once 51% of the players on the server type “vote q2dm3″, the mod automatically changes to that level. The mod also features an enhanced weapons display hud, and incorporates the popular ServObits (customised death messages) and VWep (visible weapons) features. For more details, check out the homepage for this mod, PureDM.

The launch party for Rocket Arena 2 (Quake 2) is on tomorrow night, being held live on IRC I think. If this mod is as good as it sounds, we may run one on q2arena1.quake.ie shortly. Yes, my quake.ie servers plan has changed yet again - the vanilla Quake 1 servers just aren’t being used so I propose to remove these and replace them with permanent Quake 2 servers - then we would have ffa1, ctf1, war1, duel1, duel2, arena1, arena2, q2ffa1, q2ctf1, q2war1, q2duel1 and q2arena1.quake.ie.