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Quake-related news from recent daysof note:

• Shacknewspointed out that pre-orders for EnemyTerritory: Quake Wars began in the US this week. The username registrationreferred to in the pre-order is just for stat-tracking; it’s not your in-gamenick.
• OpenArena is an open-source contentpackage for Quake III: Arena licensed under the GPL, makingQ3A a stand-alone free game. Character models, maps, sounds, and textures areincluded.
• World of Padman is anotherstand-alone Q3A-based game project; they anticipate releasing it later thisweek. In the meantime, you can play the mod version of the game, whichrequires baseq3.
• Yet another Q3A-based stand-alone game which began as a mod, Urban Terror, will see a release in thenext week as well.
• A new version of DarkPlaces, an engine basedon Quake 1, wasreleased with various bugfixes.
• The map repository ..::LVL has addedsections for DOOM 3 andQuake 4.
• The newly-launched QuakeUnity.comhas posted an interview withid’s Marty Stratton and Steve Nix from GDC. Engine licensing, digital distribution,and other topics are discussed.

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