OpenArena is a free open source FPS game that uses the the ioquake3 game engine which in turn was based on the id Tech 3 engine responsible for the popular game Quake III Arena. Development on OpenArena first started the day after the id Tech 3 source GPL code release. On October 31, 2008 the developers rolled out version 0.8.1 which features a re-organized single-player campaign, three new maps, and a couple of bug fixes. Is OpenArena still worth playing?

I've put all the CS 1.6 game servers in debug mode today and it'll probably last until most of the problems are fixed. This is because I can't monitor the game servers 24/7 and since only a few players care to report what actually happens in a server, I will never know which maps have bad spawn points or if the server crashes if it changes to that map, et al.

Just wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year! God bless you all and always be safe this holiday season. 2008 has been a wonderful year for PGN as a whole especially when you take into account the amount of players that we have lost after the protocol change on HL1 based game servers. Don't worry though, if you look at the top Counter-Strike 1.6 communities out there, we're still #1! Congratulations PGN!

I've put an anti-camping plug-in in the California server. Hopefully this will speed up each round as players need to continue moving every 30-45 seconds otherwise they will lose 10 points of HP every 1-2 seconds and their screen will fade to black. This will also slay AFKs each round if they don't move at all. Maps like de_dust will be a bit faster now hopefully!

Most of the maps being used in Gun Game - NY aren't suited for 32 slot CS 1.6 game servers and I have to edit them and then add more spawn points so that 16 players will be able to play on each side. If you see a map in Gun Game - NY that does not have enough player slots, please let me know in the forum. Thank you.

All CS 1.6 game servers are down. I'm working on all of them so every PGN admin can have in-game admin levels. ETA will probably be a tonight or if I ran into some problems 2-3 days. If you have any comments and/or suggestions please post them in our forum. Thank you.

Gun Game - NY is now able to connect to the main PGN database where all the admin levels, bans, et al are stored. It wasn't able to connect properly for the last couple of days due to the patch that allowed everyone back in. The reason why it wasn't connecting properly was due to a corrupted file and all I did was copy that same file from a working game server and then overwrite the old one.

I will be doing some maintenance on the DNS server being used by our website. You guys will probably be able to login to our website later since we have to wait until the new DNS entries propagate. It should not take that long but there would still be some downtime. This way instead of seeing something like ns1.domainregistrar.com and ns2.domainregistrar.com, our name servers will now be ns1.joinpgn.com and ns2.joinpgn.com respectively.

The dedicated server hosting the PGN IRC Bots will be undergoing maintenance today December 14, 2008. I will be migrating to a new operating system. ETA is unknown as I don't know what time I'll get done with it. This shouldn't affect PGN that much as this dedicated server is mostly used for the PGN IRC Bots and other shell-related stuff.

The New York CS 1.6 game server will now run the CS 1.6 Gun Game mod and it's new hostname will be cs16.gungame.ny.joinpgn.com and it's port will stay the same which is 27015. The Virginia CS 1.6 game server will now run the CS 1.6 Zombie mod and it's new hostname will be cs16.zombiemod.va.joinpgn.com and it's port will stay the same which is 27015. Happy fragging everyone.