ioquake3 news

  • Fundraiser for Jennell Jaquays’ Heathcare and Funeral Expenses

    Jannell Jaquays was one of the key level designers for Quake 3: Arena and worked on many other games as well. Her work outside of games included fighting for transgender rights. Jaquays passed away today and is survived by her two children and wife Rebecca Heineman who is raising money to pay for medical expenses…


  • Merry Quakemas!

    Merry Quakemas!

    We’ve got a holiday live stream and a game server!


  • ioquake3 Social Media Updates

    We’ve moved our social media to two main platforms, Cohost and Mastodon. Please give ioquake3 a follow on those services to stay up-to-date with the latest updates about ioquake3. Do note that if you’re looking for help and support the place to go is as always our discourse forums helpfully provided by the fine folks…


  • 7dfps Game Jam Running From December 8 to 16

    Want to try making your first first person shooter? Maybe you’ve made a few already. The 7dfps (7 Day FPS) challenge is running from December 8th 2023 to the 16th on itch.io. The 7dfps challenge is a great opportunity to get started using ioquake3 to make your FPS. 7dfps has their own Discord server for…


  • Thank you, Digital Ocean!

    For a few years now ioquake3 has been proudly sponsored by Digital Ocean. We’re proud to renew this sponsorship again and wanted to thank the generous and fine people at Digital Ocean for doing so. Digital Ocean supplies projects, companies, and people with excellent cloud hosting services from fully managed hosting, app platforms, databases, and…


  • Legacy and M1 macOS ioquake3 support

    macOS now has two kinds of Universal Binaries. The first were from the mid-2000’s when Apple started their transition from the PowerPC platform to Intel. The second are for Apple’s transition from Intel’s 64bit x86 platform to Apple’s in-house ARM-based Apple Silicon processors. If you visit our Downloads page you will now find two new kinds of test builds…


  • ioquake3 and Xbox Game Pass

    On August 19, 2021 during QuakeCon 2021, Quake III: Arena was added to the Microsoft Store for Windows, available for purchase or included with Xbox Game Pass for subscribers, adding a new way for gamers to be able to play the game, and a new source for the data files needed to use ioquake3. ioquake3…


  • ioquake3 IRC moved to Libera

    The freenode situation is a little complicated, but we moved our IRC presence to the new Libera.chat systems a few days ago due to those events. Today the new owners of freenode responded by removing our control of the #ioquake3 and #iodoom3 channels which makes it pretty clear that sticking with Freenode would have been…


  • Test Builds Available Again

    Head over to the downloads page to download a test build of ioquake3. The test builds are very bare-bones but can be extracted over a regular installation of Quake 3: Arena’s data files and then launch the ioquake3 executable to use our updated software instead of id’s executable from 2005. You may see warnings from…


  • Wiki content moving to website

    Just a quick note to say that some content from our wiki is now available on our website. For example the Player’s Guide, SysAdmin Guide, and Get Involved. More is on the way.