According to Nerve Software designer Greg Stone, Activision is planning to release playable demos of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for both the PS3 and 360. No date as to when the demos will be made available or whether they will hit before the console versions this summer, but we will keep you posted.

ET: Quake Wars will contain all of the classes, key features and maps that the team-based multiplayer FPS had on the PC version and will also include bots and usability issues for the port to consoles has been addressed.

For more information on ET: Quake Wars, check out our previous posts.

Thanks: Eurogamer

Aspyr has announced that Enemy Territory QUAKE Wars is coming to the Mac. This shooter built on id Software’s MegaTexture rendering technology offers strategic game play and story-driven military missions. ET QUAKE Wars follows Neverwinter Nights 2, The Sims 2: Bon Voyage and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock all developed for the Mac by Aspyr.

Traditionally gamers have invested in PCs because gaming has been limited for the Mac. With more games in development for the Mac now, I wonder if we’ll start to see a shift in numbers of PC versus Mac sales among gaming enthusiasts.

via Aspyr

The 6th annual Mod DB Mod of the Year Awards are in the final stages. Every year Mod DB pays tribute to the best mods and Indie games of the year and the teams that developed them.

Mod DB has managed to narrow down over 4,000 nominees submitted throughout the month of December to the top 100. You’re invited to download and vote for your favorite five mods. The final selections run the gamut from the expected Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Battlefront and Quake mods; to mods for Freelancer and Star Wars: Jedi Academy. You can also get a glimpse of the most anticipated mod projects for 2008.

Make your vote count at Mod DB.

I’m disappointed to see that none of last year’s Oblivion or Neverwinter Nights 2 mods made it into the top 100 for 2007. I’m very curious to see what’s coming up this year though. I’d also like to know how the new Fallout 2 mod faired.

The development blog for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars yesterday brought disappointing news for Quake Wars fans, as the 1.4 update has been delayed. Problems were found while the update went through QA testing, including issues that are ATI card-specific. Developer Splash Damage is working with AMD and ATI to solve that particular problem in addition to ironing out the other issues that the update currently has.

As a result, it’s unlikely that the update will be released by the end of the year, so Splash Damage is now looking at an early January ’08 release. As disappointing as that is, it’s certainly a whole lot better than releasing a broken update that could have potentially prevented gamers from even being able to play the game.

If you tuned in to the podcast this week, then you already know what I’m about to tell you. If not, then listen up!

Gaming Today is hosting a FileFront Frag Night tonight. We’ll be playing Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on our very own FileFront server. Hostilities should commence around 9:00 PM EST tonight (11/10/07).

This event is open to the public, so come on out and join us for an evening of fragging, bagging, and tagging. The server IP is 38.118.213.150, or you can find us in your server browser under the name FileFront.com. See you there!

Joel Durham Jr., consumate mouse tester for Extreme Tech, claims that he can frag you using a two button ball mouse as easily as any of the super expensive gaming mice out on the market today. When it comes to performance in FPSs, despite what companies like Logitech, Microsoft, Saitek and Razer would like you to believe, you can perform just as well, or just as badly, with one of their gaming mice as a free Dell early gen optical mouse.

Here’s my point: Your super-expensive gaming mouse might make you more confident, but it doesn’t necessarily improve your actual game. Yeah, more buttons means you can map more stuff to mouse buttons, and comfort is certainly a factor… Nevertheless, after much testing, I’m simply not convinced that a supermouse makes a difference in how successfully I play.

I’m not trying to bash Logitech or Microsoft—or Razer or Saitek or anyone else for that matter—as they make terrific, responsive, comfortable mice. I’ve simply come to the conclusion that spending an ungodly sum of money on a mouse doesn’t help my level of competitiveness. I can plop a grenade down your pants from thirty yards with a 2-button ball mouse if I have to.

Do these super expensive high tech gaming mice really make a difference to your game, or are you just wasting money you could have spent on Call of Duty 4 on an extraneous piece of hardware?

via Extreme Tech 

Activision has announced record sales for its financial Q2 showing a 69% increase over the same quarter in the previous fiscal year. Chairman Robert Kotick commented the quarter’s earnings were the highest in Activision’s history. He also attributes some of the success to the acquisition of Bizarre Creations.

CEO Mike Griffith said Activision shipped more units of Guitar Hero III than any other game in it’s history.

“Within the first seven days, consumer sell through was more than $100 million in North America alone — our largest product launch ever,” he said.

Activision is also forecasting third quarter net revenues exceeding $1 billion. Titles due for release include the Bee Movie Game in connection with DreamWorks Animation’s theatrical release; Enemy Territory: Quake Wars in North America; Spider-Man: Friend or Foe; and Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground. In particular, the company is banking on the success of recently released titles Guitar Hero III and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Kotick is mirroring the warning of EA’s John Riccitiello regarding Rock Band estimating that Activision may not be able to meet the demand for Guitar Hero III this holiday season.

“Given initial consumer demand, it’s possible demand will outstrip supply across all platforms before Christmas. To help ensure we continue momentum, we have over 30,000 in-store kiosks where consumers can demo the game, more than triple the number of kiosks we had last year.”

via Gamasutra

Well it’s that time of week once again. Ron and Shawn have a new podcast and a new podcast link for iTunes users. Those interested in subscribing to File-N-Forget can now do so directly through the iTunes store or by clicking on this link.

This week in Episode 9: Battlefield Quake, Ron and Shawn discuss the latest Quake game – Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and compare it to the Battlefield series in good and bad ways. Can this multiplayer entry in the Quake series live up to the ET pedigree?

You can grab this episode of the File-N-Forget Podcast here.

Don’t forget, you can send us your suggestions for future podcasts by emailing podcast@filefront.com; and you can check out past episodes by visiting our FileFront podcast page at http://podcast.filefront.com.

TN Games is pulling out the stops at E for all, introducing its innovative 3rd Space FPS Vest and its new FPS game, Incursion.

TN Games patented impact-generating 3rd Space technology utilizes a quiet and durable air source to fire 8 pneumatic cells embedded in the vest. The cells are designed to simulate the direction and force of bullet fire in a first-person shooter game. In addition, a wide array of sensory experiences, from crushing explosions to fear-inducing finger taps on the gamers’ shoulders, can be experienced with the 3rd Space FPS Vest. The vest is available in black, digital camouflage and comes in two highly adjustable sizes ensuring a comfortable, custom fit.

The 3rd Space Vest will include Incursion and 3rd Space compatible version of Activision’s Call of Duty II will be shipped with the vest, which will be available for the suggested retail price of $189.00 USD. Gamers can place an order for the bundle pack starting November 21, just in time for the holiday season.

What’s even better is that there will be patches available to make Quake 3, 4 and Doom 3 compatible with the vest as well from www.tngames.com free of charge.

You can demo the 3rd Space FPS Vest at booth 906. Players up to the challenge will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a special edition 3rd Space FPS Vest, TN Games new Incursion game and a 3rd Space enabled version of Activision’s Call of Duty II game at this year’s show! The winning name will drawn at TN Games booth 906 at 12:00 pm on October 21st.

via Press Release

The folks over at Activision and Splash Damage have teamed up with id Software to bring us an updated Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo. Version 1.1 updates the demo to sync with the code from the retail release.

If you haven’t checked out this game yet, now’s the time. If you want to see just what changes are in this update, you can see the full change list after the break.

You can grab the full version 1.1 demo here.

If you already have the demo, and want to update it, you can grab the update patch here.

If you’re running a demo server, you can grab the update for your server here.

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