Attention all Modders and Mappers! If you’ve been waiting to make your own mods based on Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, build your very own ETQW maps, create new vehicles and weapons, or are just curious to see how the game works then stand by for a veritable explosion of game-helpy stuff.

We’re just about ready to release a Beta version of the ETQW Software Development Kit (SDK), containing absolutely everything you’ll need to make your own ETQW Stuff™. Here's a breakdown of what you'll get in the Beta SDK:

We’ve had a lot of questions about how XP works in ETQW. What sort of actions earns you XP? What do you get rewarded with, and when? Does XP reward players or the whole team? We wanted to design a system that recognized and rewarded every kind of constructive team play. However you want to play ETQW, whichever class, whatever you do - as long as it helps your team, you’ll get XP for it. Rather than just tell you how we think we did, we asked Ifurita, author of the mind-bogglingly good ETQW4Newbies to look at ETQW’s XP system and report back on what he found. Here’s what he had to say...

I'm Jared 'jRAD' Hefty, Splash Damage's Tools and User Interface Programmer. I'm responsible for the upcoming Software Development Kit (SDK) for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, and thought I'd give all you enthusiastic Mod-Makers and Level Designers a status update and an idea of what we're packing into the SDK.

We couldn't have hoped for better reviews for our first ever retail game - over 30 publications and counting have scored the game at 90% or over, while we've achieved thirteen more awards from those same reviewers which brings ETQW's award and nomination count to over 50! On the retail front ETQW debuted in the US and the UK and immediately snatched the number 1 slot in the PC game charts of both countries. We're delighted, but don't have much time to hoot about it - the entire Splash Damage development team is still completely occupied with ongoing support of ETQW for the PC. It is less than a month since the game's retail release and we're almost ready with the next feature-packed update. Here's an overview:

We were very curious when we heard that BradyGames were going to be producing a strategy guide for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. Like most gamers we’d seen the racks of game guides in shops, and even bought a few ourselves, but we had little idea how they get written. Dragged between the snorting stallions of Curiosity and Caution, we got in touch with Brady’s star word-wrangler Phillip Marcus, abuzz with questions and ponderings.