First Doom3 Tourney @ QuakeCon

Rogerpq3 writes "The battleground is set - it's confirmed that the 9th annual QuakeCon 2004 video game festival and tournament at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas on August 12-15 will host the first DOOM 3 deathmatch championship ever. Be there to game, hang out with 5,000 of your closest friends, and compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes in the NVIDIA QuakeCon 2004 Championship Tournaments. Online registration for QuakeCon 2004 has begun at www.quakecon.org, and the event is free to all attendees."

Comments

Re:Wha?

[scifience]

id.com is not the website for iD Software. idsoftware.com is.

Re:Wha?

[strictnein]

I thought Doom3 didn't have multiplayer? (Score:2, Informative)

How is an incorrect thought informative? Doom 3 has multiplayer. This has been known for almost a year now.

Re:Wha?

[DrEldarion]

It has multiplayer deathmatch with, I believe, up to a whopping 4 players.

Only the XBox version has cooperative mode, unfortunately.

Oh, and going to id.com won't help you much. idsoftware.com, on the other hand, is probably what you're looking for.

Gaylord owns

[zpapasmurf]

You obviously have never been to a Gaylord hotel if you insist on making fun of the name. Their hotels are some of the largest and niceset on the planet. www.gaylordhotels.com

Re:doom3 release date?

[strictnein]

if you had RTFA you would know that this is the first time that people will have played Doom3 multiplayer (even the leaked beta didn't have that).

Doom3 is still going to be released after quakecon. This tournament doesn't affect the release date.

4 player deathmatch

[t0qer]

The original doom was a 4 player deathmatch. Maybe they just wanted to keep it true to the original DM playstyle.

Re:doom3 release date?

[strictnein]

The article clearly states that Doom3 will not be released before Quakecon. The official release "date" for Doom3 is Summer.

So, Doom3 in summer (June ~21st - Sept ~21st), after Quakecon (August 12-15), narrows it down. Most people expect a late August release.

Re:If......

[EvilJohn]

The Doom3 tournament is played on QuakeCon supplied computers, and they'll be able to run Doom3 without any problem.

John "EvilJohn" Carney
Director of the BYOC
Quakecon 2004

Re:doom3 release date?

[Naikrovek]

-1: Wrong.

August 3

Hah!

[Obiwan Kenobi]

Online registration for QuakeCon 2004 has begun at www.quakecon.org, and the event is free to all attendees.

No, no. Online registration began back on April 14th, 2004. It was full in about a day.

However, there is a waiting list. When you get there there will be two huge lines snaking around the walls. The smaller line is for those who've pre-registered, while the other snakes around entire second floor of the place, each player hoping for a spot in the grand ballroom.

For those who haven't registered and wish to attend, be sure to get there EARLY. And I mean 5AM or earlier if you wish to get in.

Good thing I got registered 30 minutes after it began...

Re:Hah!

[tbradshaw]

We have never turned away anyone from the BYOC at any QuakeCon.

Travis "Ash" Bradshaw
Director of Staffing
QuakeCon 2004

Re:doom3 release date?

[Zed2K]

http://www.doom3.com/

Official Id Software site. Release date:

Coming soon.

About 1600 on list

[charnov]

looks like there is about 1600 people on the waiting list.

Re:doom3 release date?

[tbradshaw]

While this may be the first day that a lot of people play DOOM3 Multiplayer, it definitely won't be the first day that anyone has played DOOM3 Multiplayer.

At QuakeCon in 2003 there was a dedicated DOOM3 deathmatch booth that allowed attendees to play DOOM3 multiplayer. They shuffled attendees through in about 15 minute intervals for three days.

It was kick ass.

Travis "Ash" Bradshaw
Director of Staffing
QuakeCon 2004

Re:doom3 release date?

[strictnein]

It's not confirmed

Sorry, that's just speculation. The Aug 3rd date was first put forward by ebgames (who is always accurate as we know) and then every other retailer jumped on that date.

Re:NVidia-sponsored... Linux in Hollywood

[tjwhaynes]

You want quotes?

Although Linux has yet to achieve wide popularity in the computer game world ("Will Linux Be Computer Games' Dark Horse OS?" Computer, Dec. 2001, pp. 161-162), it is making rapid progress toward becoming the dominant operating system in the other major entertainment arena: motion pictures. Name a motion picture from the past year or two that featured stunning animation or dazzling special effects, and chances are the film's producers used Linux-based computers to splash those graphics on the big screen.

"In short, the big news in Hollywood about Linux is it is no longer big news. Linux has won not only renderfarm servers, but the artist desktops of the top studios. It's hard to find a large studio that does not rely upon Linux as its primary animation and special effects OS, and many smaller film studios have adopted Linux, too...

"You hear a lot about Linux not being ready to work on desktops," said HP's Jeff Wood, director of product marketing for personal workstations. "Well, here we have the perfect example of how Linux is more than ready for the desktop -- hundreds of animators successfully used Linux to create a film right from their desktops."

You want to links? You've got links:

• Linux in Hollywood: A Star Is Born
• Computer and Graphics World
• Sinbad Hears Linux's Siren Song
• TechNewsWorld: Linux in Hollywood

You want apps? You got've apps:

1. NVidia Gelato (available FIRST for Linux - Windows XP coming soon)
2. Maya
3. Tremor
4. Shake
5. Houdini
6. Renderman
7. Cinepaint

You want companies? You've got companies:

1. Pixar (although Steve Jobs is moving them to Macs)
2. ILM
3. Weta Digital
4. Dreamworks

Linux is the pre-eminent renderfarm for Hollywood and is the dominant workstation for artists. But don't trust me - there are plenty of links out there on the web.

Cheers,
Toby Haynes

Re:Nvidia, ATI

[Anonymous Coward]

Go download one of the newer source ports or get Winquake or glQuake.