20 Years Feature

20th Anniversary of the PadMod 20 Years Feature

20 years of PadMod: World of PADMAN

It’s hard to believe, but 20 years ago today World of PADMAN was born as a modification for Quake 3 Arena, Happy Birthday! After two and a half years of hard development work, the first beta version was released on June 18th, 2004. It contained 11 maps, six player models with a total of 14 […]

20th anniversary of ModDB 20 Years Feature

20th Anniversary of ModDB

This month marks the 20th anniversary of ModDB. ModDB was originally started in July 2002 by Scott aka INtense! as a database for game mods with the goal of providing a place to go for mod content and the opportunity to collaborate. Back in the day, mods were uploaded to various game hosting sites and […]

ENTE's PadHangar (JK2) 20 Years Feature

20 Years of ENTE’ PadPack for Jedi Knight 2

ENTE’s PadPack for Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast turned 20 years old on June 6th, 2022. This pack contains a total of four maps for the duel game mode, in which two players primarily compete against each other with the lightsaber. Therefore, the maps are kept rather small, but are also playable in the FFA […]

ENTE's PadStation (JK2) 20 Years Feature

20 years of ENTE’s PadStation

ENTE’s map PadStation for Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast already turned 20 years old on May 12th, 2022. It is his first map for the game by Raven Software, which was released a few weeks earlier, on March 27th, 2002. Actually ENTE wanted to concentrate completely on the PadMod after his last map PadCrash for […]

ENTE's PadCrash (Q3A) 20 Years Feature

20 Years of ENTE’s PadCrash

20 years ago today ENTE released his tenth and last PadMap, PadCrash for Quake 3 Arena, even though he didn’t really call it a typical PadMap. This quite colorful map is a so-called platform map with, for his standards, quite few details and therefore did not correspond so much to the style of the PadMaps […]

ENTE's PadGallery deLuxe (Q3A) 20 Years Feature

20 Years of ENTE’s PadGallery deLuxe

20 years ago today, ENTE released a heavily revised version of his original third PadMap, PadGallery deLuxe for Quake 3 Arena. It is very different from the first version, bigger, more colorful, more detailed and simply much better. Of course, ENTE has remained true to his original concept, as it is still an image gallery. […]

ENTE's PadShop (Q3A) 20 Years Feature

20 Years of ENTE’s PadShop

In 2001 ENTE continued to create PadMaps, including PadShop, ENTE’s ninth map for Quake 3 Arena. At that time it was called “The American PC Gamer presents PadShop”, because he created the map on behalf of the computer game magazine PC Gamer and therefore it first appeared on March 13th, 2001 exclusively on the magazine […]

ENTE's PadKitchen (Q3A) 20 Years Feature

20 Years of ENTE’s PadKitchen

20 years ago today, ENTE released his eighth PadMap; PadKitchen für Quake 3 Arena. It represents a small kitchen with breakfast table, oven, toaster, microwave, kitchen cabinets and even a small area in the sewerage system, below the floor. The map contains some gags and lots of fresh textures and details. For example the radio […]

Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force 20 Years Feature

20 Years of Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force

On September 20th, 2000 Activision released Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force, a first person shooter from Raven in the Star Trek universe based on the Quake3 engine. As the name suggests, the game is all about the spaceship Voyager, from the well-known TV series of the same name, which is on its long journey […]