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Mani's Classic Art #2

9:06:05 AM - 19 February 2008

mani is back this time making a recreation of quake art of another kind; action photography. Other critics have labeled it "Art imitating life".

Here you see the original photograph taken at Wart's Lan by australia

dirtbox followed by mani's work of the same title.

Venom in "Burn the Heretics"

dirtbox - 4 Comments

Mani's Classic Art

12:39:58 PM - 16 February 2008

Following on from my previous post Classic Moments in BesMella History I am now bringing you some exclusive new artwork from the talented australia

mani who has been known to create portraits of many very well known quake player.

Further to these new classic works of art we are appealing to anyone who may have copies of any of Mani's other previous (and now possibly lost forever) art including portraits of, but not limited to: Beasil, Harlsom, Wombat, Fatality, Scurge and more...

Scurge in "The Leprecon"

Harlsom in "Harlsom Potter"

dirtbox - 8 Comments

iPGN server upgrade

12:14:47 PM - 11 November 2007

Our beloved iPGN servers are long overdue for an upgrade and australia

causticsoda has got the ball rolling by getting in contact with the server admins. Progress is being made but he needs your help in terms of what needs to be improved/added.

KTX seems like the way to go, but what else? Maps? Settings? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

lemike - 53 Comments

Classic Moments in BesMella History

8:24:33 PM - 3 November 2007

I was having a discussion with australia

vb yesterday about some of the classic times in BesMella's history and thought I would like to share.

Whilst not updated much now, BesMella in its prime was the clear world leader providing the latest QuakeWorld News. This often drew some negative attention and jealousy from rival websites with, on regular occasions, our whole news posts copied, sometimes word for word and even our article images used directly on other sites.

With

ParadokS being the worst offender at plagiarism, we decided to hit back. Please find the folowing screenshots detailing what happens when you steal our article and link to an image on our server, you might just find the image changes slightly:

enjoy!

dirtbox - 22 Comments

The next best thing to an active QW website...

3:53:17 PM - 3 November 2007

I have created a group on Facebook called 'Active Australian Quake Players.'

This seemed to be the easiest, most convenient way to produce a collection of profiles for current QW players and is the perfect way for players to stay in touch, organise comp games, team games or whatever.

Anyone can join the group and Facebook has a bunch of tools that lend themselves to keeping a QW community happening in AU.

If you don't already have a Facebook account sign up and see what you've been missing out on. Its not only good for QW, half of your real life friends are probably already signed up.

I've posted the results from some random pickup games I played this arvo which is the first time I can remember anyone doing that level of 'granular' QW news reporting in ages.

Sign up, join our group and lets try to get a bit of community happening around QW again.

doc - 1 Comments

MVDSV freestyle contest

4:01:13 PM - 27 September 2007

A contest after my own heart. The MVDSV crew are holding a tricking contest to accumulate demos for an upcoming MVDSV promotional video.

france

pez will be editing the video, and germany

Spirit created the map, so we should be in for quite a treat.

Download the map HERE or HERE, 24bit textures for the map HERE or HERE, or read more/download the demos HERE or HERE.

vb - 1 Comments

BesMella.Duel 4.0 Deadline Tuesday

1:59:04 PM - 26 September 2007

The draw is now up for Season #4 of BesMella.Duel and the deadline is rapidly approaching. The following games are still needing to be played:

Round 1 - Winners Bracket

miyagi vs Mugsy
hashkey vs Puglet
assel vs phelon
psikaar vs billzoz
matrix vs dubYa
Yogi vs quakeguy
foe vs unnamed

DEADLINE TUESDAY

Click HERE to get the latest.

dirtbox - 1 Comments

ezQuake 1.8.2

9:04:08 AM - 18 September 2007

foe brings news of a a new version 1.8.2 stable build.

At this stage there is no news release or changelog for this release however follow the links before for when they come available.

Download � http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/download/
Security � http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/security/
Screenshots � http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/
Homepage � http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/

dirtbox - 9 Comments

BesMella.Duel 4.0 Poll Results

8:50:31 AM - 18 September 2007

Just confirming what I always new... Here are the results of the sign-up poll for BesMella.Duel 4.0

Best Map for 1on1 - The big 5.

dm4 32.00% (8)
dm6 24.00% (6)
dm2 20.00% (5)
aerowalk 12.00% (3)
ztndm3 12.00% (3)

I'm still 100% sure that the map selections for BesMella.Duel; dm2, dm4, dm6 and agreed-other are the correct choice. If there is going to be a BesMella.Duel 5 the same format will be kept.

dirtbox - 1 Comments

BesMella.Duel 4.0 Draw Announced

11:56:58 PM - 16 September 2007

The draw is now up for Season #4 of BesMella.Duel. Please use the forum to arrange your games. Winners bracket allows for 2 weeks for each match up to be played.

Round 1 - Winners Bracket