Category: ioquake3

  • Merry Quakemas!

    Merry Quakemas!

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

  • 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…

  • ioquake3 git branch renamed to “main”

    This is the bare minimum of work to dismantle white supremacy. If you’re in the United States, please donate to a bail fund, join BLM, help organize your community against the white supremacist state, join your local Tenants Union, and join Food not Bombs around the world. If you compile your own ioquake3 from git…

  • A New ioquake3.org

    Way back in the middle of 2019 the ioquake3 project ran into a security issue, 2020 was an almost complete tire fire and 2021 is… not great! Still, we are finally digging our way out of that mess and moving on. Some things are broken today, but the meta server remains operational and you can…

  • ioquake3 Security Notice 06/13/19: Test Builds Possibly Compromised

    Update May 20, 2021: Test builds are available again See this news item for the update or continue reading to see the original news post from 2019. Summary: As an initial notice, I want to warn ioquake3 players and server operators that precompiled test builds downloaded from our website may have been compromised. Please do…

  • Thank You, Zack Middleton (zturtleman)

    Zack Middleton (zturtleman) announced that he’ll be leaving the project, and Quake 3 engine development in general, on October 10th, 2018: October 10th 2018 is the 10 year anniversary of when I started modding ioquake3. It was my third attempt at creating a Ninja Turtle fangame within a three year time period. I intend to…