ioquake3 – Play Quake 3, mods, new games, or make your own!

Zack Middleton (zturtleman) announced that he’ll be leaving the project, and Quake 3 engine development in general, on October 10th, 2018:
October 10th 2018 is the 10 year anniversary of when I started modding ioquake3. It was my third attempt at creating a Ninja Turtle fangame within a three year time period. I intend to release Spearmint 1.0 as the end result of 10 years of working on...

ioquake3 is an entirely volunteer-run project and we need more volunteers! Please share this post with your friends.
If you love maintaining Linux servers, and specifically Ubuntu Server, this is the role for you. The ioquake3 project is looking for a qualified Linux Systems Administrator to assist with maintaining our Ubuntu VPS. We need someone to help maintain our...

Ryan “icculus” Gordon has surprised us with a cross-platform auto-updater for ioquake3.
Created thanks to contributions to his patreon campaign, here’s how Ryan describes it:
I’ve written an autoupdater for ioquake3, with the intention of the game operating much like Google Chrome…it just stays up to date and you don’t really notice. This has been a long-time wishlist item for the ioq3 team…as they are locked out of platforms...

Last month I wrote about an important security update, and we were lucky that the news was spread far and wide but many players still didn’t see it.
Even if they read the news, and they updated to the latest build of ioquake3, they wouldn’t have caught the follow-up security commits to the code repository unless they downloaded another test build more recently....