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  • CVE-2012-3345 symlink attack in ioquake3 >= r1773

    Background ==========   ioquake3 [IOQ] is a fork of the Quake III Arena (id Tech 3) game engine, and has become the de facto upstream for that engine since id Software ceased to develop it. It is also used (unmodified, modified or forked) in various open-source and proprietary games including OpenArena [OA], Reaction [REA], Smokin’…

  • Calling all content creators!

    Work has started on “baseio“, a project to create a small game to include with the ioquake3 engine download with Creative Commons licensed content. Work has already been started on textures, weapon models, and a player model, but there is still much to be done. Animations, mapping, and audio are most needed, but if there’s anything…

  • Turtle Arena 0.6 Released!

    Boasting better than HD graphics, the Turtle Arena team have released version 0.6 of their Turtle-Powered video game. Here’s what’s new: Four player splitscreen! The turtles now have tails, like in the original TMNT comics. Added cel-shading to many 3D models (code from ZEQ2-lite) Remade many images at higher resolution (most or all UI/HUD graphics…

  • Reaction Beta 1

    The first beta standalone release of Reaction, an ioquake3-based Action Quake 2-styled game is now available. Previously, Reaction required a full install of Quake 3: Arena to play. If you’ve never played Action Quake 2, you should know that it was in the style of your favorite realistic action movies. Guns akimbo, headshots, ridiculous trick…

  • Doomed

    If you’re interested in the Doom 3 source code release, check out iodoom3.

  • Ryan “icculus” Gordon speaks on Open-Source gaming

    including the Quake series:

  • High-Resolution Creative Commons Texture Replacement Pack

    Looking for a graphical update to Quake 3? Check out this new texture pack from Paul Marshall (aka Kpax). It replaces the original textures in Quake 3 with high-resolution versions, and it is licensed under the creative commons! Download now: xcsv_hires.zip (179MB) Unzip this file to your baseq3 directory, note that pure servers will need…

  • ioquake3 (kwaak3) on the Droid & G1

    Via Thunderbird’s excellent kwaak3 ioquake3 spin-off, I just tried out ioquake3 on a borrowed Verizon Droid (Motorola Milestone). I’ve also tried kwaak3 on a donated T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream): it is truly amazing that ioquake3 can run well on these platforms, not just for first-person-shooters or doom clones, but for new kinds of games to…

  • Relnav’s Quake 3 Announcement

    THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE! San Francisco, CA – After over four and a half years of serving the Quake 3 community, the developers have behind ioquake3 have decided to make some changes. Citing the need to keep with the future and keep up with the community’s demands, the ioquake3 team has teamed up…

  • ioquake3 on the Nokia n900

    One of the more interesting platforms for ioquake3 is the Nokia n900. The n900 is a smartphone running the Maemo version of Linux and a few months ago a project started to bring ioquake3 to it. Oliver McFadden maintains this version and demonstrated it in this video captured at Maemo Summit 2009 after the break.…