Doom 3 is out!!!!! Hehe.. I know what I’m doing this weekend. 🙂 Well, maybe not the whole weekend… nah, who am I kidding!

DooM ]|[
It’s been a long time coming, but Doom 3 is finally here on store shelves. I picked up a copy and though the game definitely lives up to the DooM legacy, the software leaves something to be desired. The first problem I encountered was with the included Macrovision copy protection software.

There are several references to this issue online (such as this one, this one, or this one) as well as one reference to it on Activision’s support site that didn’t help. Ultimately I ended up getting the no-cd crack from game burn world. Of course this is only a temporary fix until Activision/Id come out with a real patch for the game. All this time in development, you’d think they’d have tested the copy protection software a little more rigorously.

With little else to do today, I remembered that the next LAN party is only 2 weeks away. If you’re in the greater Charleston area and you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. It’s only $10. (pre-pay, $20 at the door) As with most LAN parties, this event is BYOC. They even have drinks and snacks to keep you going for 10+ hours. (and Bawls, for a $1.50 if you need that extra boost..)

Jan. DTDM
Joe posted his pics from the last DTDM event on the forum site. I archived a few of them here in a more compressed form for those without broadband. The last event was a lot of fun, as I’ve mentioned here before. Looking forward to the next one. Thanks to Joe and the guys at DTDM for putting this event together!

UT 2004
The guys at EPIC/DE/ATARI have released the beta demo of the next chapter in the Unreal Tournament series, UT2004. The demos for PC, Mac and Linux are all available, so if you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can get it here. If you don’t have high-speed internet access, get a friend to burn you a copy.. it’s that good.

Stop the presses, watch for flying pigs and strange weather.. Clay has actually updated his website!! Yes that’s right folks.. a page that has seen no updates in over 2 years has suddenly been rediscovered by it’s creator. 😉

DTDM Round 2
Last night’s Downtown Deathmatch LAN party was great in spite of the low turnout. The Unreal Tournament 2003 match was probably the most intense, most fun 4 hours of the entire event. (Joe seems to think so too…) We played bombing run with low grav and instagib and I must say it rocked. If you’re into PC gaming and you haven’t checked out this event, you definitely should. Downtown Deathmatch

First Time @ DTDM
My first time at Downtown Deathmatch was the November event of last year. I didn’t really know anyone there, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Being that this was the first time I’d ever played Counter Strike with a group, I was really surprised to be on the team that won the double-elimination tournament. I have to say, all the credit should go to my teammates. This was also the first time I’d brought my black-n-blue modded monster machine out in public. I’ve still got some work to do on it, but I think it did really well considering. Here are some pics I grabbed off of Joe’s site: