Die Timewarp Crew ist bekannt für ihre guten Mappacks in der UT Classic Szene.

Nun hat sie kurz vor dem Release ihres neuen Packs eine komplette Homepage auf die Beine gestellt, wo sich das ganze Team nebst beigesteuerten Maps vorstellt.

Außerdem können alle Packs, die bisher veröffentlicht wurden, heruntergeladen und kommentiert werden.

Ein Besuch ist die Seite auf jeden Fall wert, wer sich auf dem neusten Stand halten will, für den lohnt es sich durchaus regelmäßig mal einen Blick drauf zu werfen ;)

Vor wenigen Stunden wurden in den offiziellen Epic Foren, in einem extrem übersichtlichen Posting, die Gewinner des MSUC Phase 1 bekannt gegeben.

Für unsere Community sind wohl die Gewinner der Deathmatch Level Kategorie besonders interessant:

The Best Deathmatch Level category winners are as follows:
Salvation, a gorgeous multi-level map by Daniel “KaMi” Díaz, first place;
Calibrah, a map with beautiful visuals and notable weather effects by Matthias “sklare” Cytatzky, second place;
August, a stunning one-on-one level by Nick “neoduck” Donaldson, third place;
Acquisition, a thoroughly fun duel map for up to six players by Ben "Slainchild" Edney, fourth place; and
Xiao, an ancient temple map with great gameplay by Sander “ZixXer” Vereecken, fifth place.

Auf diesem Wege: Glückwunsch sklare!

Quelle:
 - Epicgames
 - Beta Thread

Homeslice's bit is below (posted whilst I was typing mine up!), and now it's my turn to basically say the same thing but with more words! Mainly this: Insite is officially closing its doors effective immediately.

It would be wrong to blame UT3 for this completely, but it would foolish to pretend it didn't have an effect. Interest, both locally on our team and in the overall community, started dying out a couple years into UT2004. Slowly but surely reviews were turned out less and less frequently, and we lost many good reviewers to the ravages of time.

The latest arrival in the tournament series was supposed to bring with it a resurgence of activity throughout the community, but such a thing never came. UT3 arrived far too broken and subpar for most people to give a damn. Those outside the UT community easily shunned it, and a very large percentage of those within it also turned their backs on what was clearly an inferior product.

While UT3 originally stood in a unique position in that it could have proven to the gaming world at large that arena-style shooters aren't a dying breed, in the end it did exactly the opposite. As far as generating team interest by providing a fun and engaging experience, UT3 was essentially the worst thing that could have happened to Insite. It was, more or less, the final blow that knocked us to the ground.

Now, as far as anyone is aware, Epic is currently under contract with Midway to produce another UT in the coming few years. Whether it's a proper version of UT3 (a la what UT2004 was to UT2003) or something totally different, if it's good, Insite will probably come back to cover it. And if we do come back, it will be with a totally new design. Until further notice, however, we are out!

Thanks to anyone and everyone who was ever involved with Insite, reviewers and readers alike. We had a good run, but it's time to move on.

-- T2A`

Es war eigentlich abzusehen, aber Insite hat jetzt offiziell den Betrieb eingestellt. Größtenteils liegt es am Desinteresse für UT3 und dass Insite mit der Zeit viele gute Reviewer verloren hat, was dazu geführt hat, dass die Reviews immer unregelmäßiger kamen. Die Datenbank bleibt aber für alle erhalten, es geht also nicht wie bei Nalicity alles verloren.

Wird Insite wieder kommen? Hoffentlich! Aber wenn, dann erst zum nächsten UT. Dann aber auch in einem völlig neuem Design.

Insite.beyondunreal.com  

Due to issues beyond our control, the server that NaliCity has been hosted on since 2001 is no longer a viable hosting platform and as of a few days ago is gone. This has the unfortunate side effect of Nali City being completely down with no estimate on when it will be back up.

 

For several years now, all of BeyondUnreal has been hosted on a newer, better server, but for technical reasons Nali City has never been able to be moved over to this server from the ancient server it was on.

We hope that the Nali City community will continue to function on the forums while we work on a way to restore the website to a usable state. For the record, we have not lost any of the site data, the hard drives in the old server were not affected by this and the database was never on there.

If anyone has any ideas how we can help the NaliCity community through this time, please let us know.