One of our fellow hardcore Unreal/UT brothers has gone, well, hardcore!  He’s recorded a guitar cover version of Unreal Interlude II! Nicely done Valter!

Here’s the original for reference:   Unreal: Return To Na Pali – Interlude II

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Wow, lots o’ changes at Epic going on.  First Cliffy, now Mike Capps.  Read more HERE.   It will be interesting to see how this affects future direction.  Seems like the original guys are bailing out.  If Mark Rein ends up bowing  out, I doubt we will see a new UT any time soon.

Bear with me while I migrate my site to a different server on my hosting account. This stuff rarely ever goes smoothly! 🙁   Several parts of the site are not functioning at the moment.

*Update 1 (3/7)*: Almost back… fingers crossed…

*Update 2 (3/8)*: Spoke too soon.  Going to disable much of the site functionality for the next day or two and attempt a switch from Windows to Linux hosting. Hopefully that will solve the problems.  Stay tuned…

*Update 3 (3/9)*: Seems like everything is stabilized again.  Let me know if there any issues remaining.

The Mapraider website (link also on left) has been completely redone and the new layout is VERY sweet!  As before, it still has downloads for many different games including all UT’s.  Make sure the check it out and support it by commenting and rating on the site.

Neillithan has released an updated version of DM-1on1-Pure with a “Pro2” version.  It has improved lighting and other subtle changes.  I particularly noticed the dynamic shadows on the floor originating from the asteroid belt outside.  Way cool.  This one has nice clean action and a beautiful skybox!  Get it HERE.

As widely reported on the net, IGN is closing its doors.  Along with it, the Gamespy website and all of the “Planet” websites (Planet Unreal was mostly dead already anyway).  The scary part for us UT3’ers is what happens to the in-game browser, and game log in which was run in conjunction with Gamespy??

On the slightly unnerving side of things, Flak just posted on the Epic Forums “We’re checking into it.”.  I’m a bit surprised/worried that the answer wasn’t readily available.

Most likely everything will be fine but a worst case scenario would be that it would completely break the UT3 game log in preventing us from playing online at all even through direct IP.  I’m sure even in that case, a fix would be found at some point.

Wizd3m has retooled and renamed his website!  What was once The Alternative Gamer is now The Master Foundry or T.M.F for short.  The site still contains his excellent UT3 reviews in the Liandri Vault section.  See the left sidebar for the new link!

Andrew Yoder (aka Mclogenog), has released a new HOLP style map called DM-UntoldStorage.  Andrew has made a number of awesome maps including a fave on the server, DM-Psi.  More pics and download link on the Epic forum.

SKaa3w has been cranking out characters like a machine for UT3 recently. His latest are Greyson and Trishka from Bulletstorm. Check it out HERE. Might have to throw some of these on the server!

Chonglee (aka Moonflyer) has started a new map (*rejoices*) called DM-DeepBlue.  He is building the architecture and collision model in 3DSMax.  He’s got a long way to go, but I’m sure it will be another keeper!  For more info, check the Epic thread HERE.