Voting for this year's PC Gamer Top 100 is drawing to a close in less than two days, making this your last chance to ensure the Enemy Territory games make the cut. Both Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars are up for inclusion, with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory previously making PC Gamer's own Editorial Top 100 at #69.

Voting could not be simpler: Just make an account, pick your five favorite games of all time (use the links above to quickly get to ET goodness), and submit the list.

As an added bonus, the PC Gamer crew is also looking for user comments to be included in their upcoming print feature about this year's Top 100. If you fancy being featured in the article and want to tell them why you like the Enemy Territory games, drop them a line at pcgamer@futurenet.com or post in this forum thread on their website.

ClanBase's Spring 2010 Cup season is about to kick off and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is once again among the games featured this time around. Players will be able to compete in two different types of tournaments - OpenCups, for which anyone can sign up, and ClanBase's trademark EuroCups, which are invite-only and feature Europe's top teams. Sign-ups for the latest Enemy Territory OpenCup will start this Sunday and run for exactly two weeks until March 14. The actual cups will then start at the end of March. For more information, head over to ClanBase's EC/OC Cup Spring 2010 page.

The latest issue of PC Gamer magazine here in the UK contains the PC Gamer 100, listing their 100 best games of all time. In a feat of sheer amazement and delight to us, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory made the list at #70, sandwiched comfortably in between Freespace 2 and Battle of Britain 2. According to PC Gamer, Wolf: ET was picked for its class-based gameplay that focused on team-play rather than straight-up shooter-ing, accusations we can't really deny. Thanks Aristotle for the tip.

Better yet, PC Gamer is now turning over the reigns to all of you and letting you determine your own Top 100 Games by way of this easy-to-use website. It's a fairly simple affair - just register an account, assemble your 5 favorite games, put them in order, and submit them. The website presently has Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory sitting at #69. Let's see if we can exceed that, shall we?

The European Sports League (ESL), the continent's largest and most prominent online league, has announced its line-up for the ESL Major Series Season V. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is featured with its own league, allowing the winning team to walk away 500 Euros richer. Sign-ups are now open and are set to close on September 27th. For more information, check out the ESL's ET Season 5 page, while those interested in signing up can do so via this posting on Crossfire.

With sign-ups closed and the final groups announced, the latest season of the European Sports League's Summer League for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is all revved up and ready to go. There are over 200 teams participating in 1 on 1, 2 on 2, and 3 on 3 matches this time around, making the ESL Summer League once again one of the largest Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory competitions in Europe. Things will officially kick off on July 20th, with a no doubt epic, rifle grenade-filled conclusion on August 23rd. For those looking to keep tabs on it all, match coverage will be provided by Crossfire.nu, own3d.at, et.owned.pl, and et-scene.de.

The Splash Damage astrolabe and sundial are in agreement, the Twelve Tapir Sages nod in unison: there can be no dissent - somehow it's six (6) [SIX] years to the day that Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was released. No, wait. There is absolutely no way that can be true. Really? Really? OK. OK, if you say so. Crikey.

A massive, enormous, colossal, firm yet still sensitive thanks to everyone who made Wolf:ET (and not-very-indirectly-at-all Splash Damage) the success it/we is/are. It's been and remains a splendid and extraordinary ride and we have you to thank for it.

For old time's sake, why not take it out for a spin? Coincidentally, we've cobbled together new portal-ish page for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory with download links, a leaderboard, and other helpful bits and pieces. And while you're at it, why not take Salteh's Wolf:ET birthday quiz? Continue reading »

The European arm of the Electronic Sports League has announced its Spring 2009 leagues for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. The leagues come in 2 on 2 and 3 on 3 flavors, each with its own map list and set to kick off on May 24th (which is just a few days before ET's six year anniversary, actually). If you want to get in on the action, now's a great time to do so so as sign ups are open and being accepted until March 21st.

And if you're interested but just can't get your head around this whole ESL business, check out their handy Starter Guide.

We are happy to announce that we have received approval from Kevin Cloud over at id Software to release the source maps that we created during our development of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. This is a belated present to mark Wolf:ET's fifth birthday that we reported on last month. The package is a modest 6 Megabytes in size and includes source .map files for all six of the officially released maps.

On a side note, for those of you wanting to import the maps into Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, jRAD and Torchy assure me that this is indeed possible as EditWorld will happily import *.map files. Keep in mind that it will require some of the obvious texture path replacements and entity work, though.

You can grab the map files by clicking here.

It doesn't seem possible but Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, our first actual factual released game is five of your Earth-Years old. Today. Soon it'll be old enough to drink. And vote. And play with other games.

An enormous thank you to everyone who worked on Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and played it and are stiiiiillllll playing it and made it so popular and thus helped Splash Damage become the Pulsating Temple of Possibilities that it now is.