More release dates coming your way. Gamers in attendance at QuakeCon 2007 were the first to find out that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars will be on EU store shelves on September 28 and North American store shelves beginning October 2. The game is being developed by Splash Damage.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is set within the Quake universe in the year 2065. You can either play as the human GDF or alien Strogg in one of five character classes.
The shooter is also in development for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, but there’s still no release date announced for the …read more

The guys at Splash Damage talked to the community about in-game advertising in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, that hot shooter built using a modified Doom III engine. And you know what? The response seems to be generally good. For now, at least.

Neil Postlethwaite, managing director at Splash Damage, explained that the developers want to keep supporting ETQW and not just “walk away” after releasing the game. Postlethwaite thinks in-game advertising would help maintain the persistent stat servers and the community site, in addition to the updates and improvements that they planned.

The public beta test for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is coming, and boy, everybody’s itching for the details. According to the official community site, there will be 60,000 public beta slots available. Half of the slots will be given to FilePlanet subscribers, and the other half to people with free FilePlanet accounts.

If you guess I belong to the second half since I’m such a cheapskate, you’re correct.

The ETQW public beta client won’t work without a valid beta key. To get this beta key, you’ll have to log in a special ETQW mini-site that will go up in …read more