A new update for Quake Wars: Tactical Assault is now available containing weapon tweaks and a variety of other fixes. Tactical Assault aims to turn Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars into a more, well, tactical affair by adding realistic movement and increased damage for all weapons. The mod works with all of the 12 stock maps in the game (including bot support) and also comes with a slew of other features such as improved spectator controls, class limits, and several new weapons like the BFG10K. You can find the full changelog for the 0.3.4 update as well as download locations in the Tactical Assault thread in our forums.

With the Tribal Wars modification for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars barely out a month, the team behind it has already released an update containing a variety of tweaks and fixes. Among other things, jetpacks are now more powerful and most of the mod's weapons are on the receiving end of balance changes and new behavior. Visit the Tribal Wars website for the full 1.1 changelog as well as download links and installation instructions.

Want more Tribal Wars goodness? Check out our recent Tribal Wars interview with Alex "Arcanox" Halchuk!

Arguably one of the most anticipated mods for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, Tribal Wars is now finished and available for download! Inspired by some of the elements that made Starsiege: Tribes a gaming classic, Tribal Wars adds a CTF gametype along with jetpacks, several new weapons, and new maps.

You can grab Tribal Wars from one of the following locations:

Windows version:

• Mod-DB
• Fileplanet
• Filefront
• Megaupload
• Awesome Dudes
• Wolfmap

Linux version:

• Bravehardt
• Awesome Dudes
• Wolfmap

Once you've grabbed the release, don't forget to stop by the Tribal Wars forums. There's also a dedicated IRC channel at #twars on irc.quakenet.org.

Voting for this year's PC Gamer Top 100 is drawing to a close in less than two days, making this your last chance to ensure the Enemy Territory games make the cut. Both Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars are up for inclusion, with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory previously making PC Gamer's own Editorial Top 100 at #69.

Voting could not be simpler: Just make an account, pick your five favorite games of all time (use the links above to quickly get to ET goodness), and submit the list.

As an added bonus, the PC Gamer crew is also looking for user comments to be included in their upcoming print feature about this year's Top 100. If you fancy being featured in the article and want to tell them why you like the Enemy Territory games, drop them a line at pcgamer@futurenet.com or post in this forum thread on their website.

There have been a number of great community-made maps for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars over the years, and this Sunday, you'll get to experience four of them in special exhibition matches. Kicking off at 6 PM GMT, the matches will pit The Art of Warfare (TAW) clan against regular participants of the long-running Custom Map Nirvana event. The following maps will be part of the proceedings:

• Team Jungle by MoP
• Maridia by Chris
• Free Spirit City by []V[]
• Radar by Chris

You can grab these maps right here or, if you want to absolutely positively make sure that you've got the right ones, you can download them directly from the server at etqw.nett.org:27745 when the time comes. Continue reading »

If you were looking to get your Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars fix on the internet today, you'll have noticed EnemyTerritory·com redirecting to Activision's own site. Due to unforeseen issues, the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars websites - including the main marketing, Community, and Statistics sites - are currently inaccessible. Men with keyboards are working to get the issues resolved, but unfortunately there is currently no solid estimate for when that might be. We'll do our best to keep you updated on the situation.

In the meantime, if you're looking for some forum action, why not stop by Splash Damage's own forums? We've got StroggTapirs and everything!

A brand-new teaser trailer has been released for Quake Wars Online, the free-to-play version of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars being created for the Korean market. Quake Wars Online is in development at South Korean studio Dragonfly and features ETQW's familiar GDF and Strogg forces as they battle it out for Earth using a multitude of weapons, deployables, and vehicles.

Better yet, the game's freshly relaunched website has word that Quake Wars Online is moving into a limited public testing phase with slots for some 100,000 willing gamers. If you fancy participating, you can sign up until December 28, though it looks like this is available to Korean players only.

You can check the new teaser trailer out below. Continue reading »

It's hard to believe, but Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars arrived on your Earth on this date two years ago. A heartfelt thanks goes out to the Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars community past and present - you guys elevated the game to new heights and truly made it your own. Keep on fragging/constructing/hacking!

Incidentally, since presents always make birthdays better (scientifically proven!), why not give MoP's new map Teamjungle Beta a try?

The winners of the 2009 MI6 Awards are in and Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars has won another one of the coveted statuettes after already being awarded a Silver Muse for Best Wrapping last year. This time, though, the judges were apparently quite taken with the Projectile Dysfunction awareness campaign, which took home a Silver Muse in the "Don't You Wish You'd Thought of This" category. Earlier in the year, the Mobius Awards also honored the PD campaign with their award for Best New Media Campaign.

On a related note, congratulations are also in order for our friends over at Bethesda who are currently trying to dig themselves out from under pile of no less than nine of this year's MI6 awards for Fallout 3 and its various associated marketing activities.

Since everyone involved in our last PC Gamer/Splash Damage/community showdown had such a blast, we're getting together for another round on the 31st of March. Everything's set to start off at 7 PM that day and if you want in, just join the PC Gamer Steam Group - server IPs (there'll be more than one this time!) and passwords will be distributed via the group's chat room just before kickoff. We hope to see you there!