Second Update
ProdigyXL has finally released XL1DM4 - XL Game Over.(220Kb). Initial impressions. Disappointed. I just can't stand the texture set used. Its like the one used in Bless to Kill by Headshot. Its just yuck. After a little playing though I found that it plays really well (4 in FFA) and has some extremely cool architecture.

The Fat Controller is now here at PQ with a brand new spanking cool look. Shambler should like it, it has a subtle injection of purple. Stecki has also put his site back up. I was browsing through his site and found something about a car he has called the Doom Car. Interesting I thought. What I particularly like is the way the oil guage bounces to the bass line of whatever is playing on the radio. Kaiser has once again redone his site. I quite liked the old look, all green and everything. Apparently though Kaiser didn't, so now we have a more stream lined look.

Excessus has added a new section to his site called the bin. This is basically a page full of screenies of maps which will never be finished =(. He got the idea from Prod who originally did this on his own site.

First Update
Here are 2 new Featured Author Interviews. Thats not all the Featured Author Interview though, they'll be another 2 next week.

Some good news for all you Quake 2 authors. We will *soon* (read : S-O-O-N, not now but later in a few days, just NOT NOW. OK!) be accepting Quake 2 maps again. Now heres the deal. We still have a backlog but I've decided to scrap it for a few reasons.

• First is half of the download links for the maps are crap.
• Second, I'm sick of the shit from people complaining. Some of the emails though were very amusing =). SH4MBLER!!!
• Third there are too many duplicated requests, some people think spamming us with their maps will get them reviewed quicker. The answer to that is no, its more likely to get binned. Also on a few occasions maps got reviewed twice. (I'm only human! I do make mistakes).
• Fourth if you really want your map reviewing then you'll resubmit it.

I checked the Generations site yesterday to see how things were going and I find out the damn thing has been canceled! Ouch. When they started the project they asked id over a year ago whether what they were doing was legit. Due to some confusion on both sides, work went ahead on it. The project continued until a week or so ago when id got in touch saying what they doing was in violation of licensing agreements etc. The guys had two choices. Convert it to the guidelines id had set (basically remove all legally binding references and so turn it to crap) or stop. They made what I think is the correct decision given the circumstances and stopped work on the it. Kinda sad really. For the full low down check out their site. Good luck to whatever the Generations team works on next.

ProdigyXL is going to be releasing XL1DM4 sometime today. All I can say is about fugging time! Speaking of Prod his website has turned into a regular news site. You bored or something? j/k.

My favourite net util, Getright, has just been updated. Currently its only a beta (v4.0) but I'll be checking it out anyway.