Open Arena, a game based on the Quake III engine and which is eerie similar with Quake 3 Arena, has been officially launched for Raspberry Pi.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has approved Open Arena to appear on their official store and have chosen to give it an Adult rating due to its contents.
According to the developers, Open Arena is a free, network enabled, multiplayer, first-person shooter bas
The official Quake Live website has word of an update to the free browser-based version of Quake III: Arena:
We took QUAKE LIVE offline for just a short period today to update our statsdaemon, a necessary adjustment to our back-end systems so that we could continue our work on improving scalability.
In addition to these back-end changes, [...]
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World of Padman (WoP) is a first-person shooter game that is developed and headed by the professional cartoonist and illustrator ENTE and his team. The game was initially developed as a modification of the original game Quake III Arena and was titled PadMod. After the source code for Quake III Arena was released, the game became standalone.
I am very new to Gaming on Ubuntu and so I have listed the problems that I am facing with several games.
Open Arena :
Working fine
Alien Arena :
No response
Urban Terror :
Keyboard stops working, there is always a square box near the shooter's hand of about 3cm x 3cm in 800x600 resolution.
Quake Live celebrated its first birthday with about 60 million games played. Quake Live was a tremendous success in the browser world games and the main reason is that Quake live has managed to move a fully fledged 3D gaming to the network without the need to install additional software or take out a license.
Alien Arena is a standalone 3D first person online deathmatch shooter based on the original source code of Quake II and Quake III, released by id Software under the GPL license.
The CRX engine that powers the game has many new features including 32 bit graphics, new particle engine and effects, light blooms, reflective water, hi resolution textures and skins, hi poly m
Are you a fan of the old school deathmatches?? Alien Arena brings out the old deathmatch with a new twist, rich colorful arcade like atmosphere giving a retro Sci fi feel. Combining the best features of Quake III and Unreal Tournament, giving an alien theme and stunning new visuals, Alien Arena 7.53 is sure to be a visual treat.
Quake Live for Linux is according to 1up.com just around the corner, .i.e. due this Tuesday, August 18th:
During the QuakeCon 2009 press conference, id President Todd Hollenshead announced what many non-Windows computer users had been asking about for months. Quake Live, id software’s browser based shooter, would be adding support for Linux and Macintosh operating [...]
A few Quake Live-related items:
Bethesda Blog interviewed id Software’s Marty Stratton about the genesis of the online shooter.
One of the most requested features in QUAKE LIVE and something that I think would be at the core of any premium service, would be the ability to very easily and quickly start a private match (that only [...]