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Games » Quake III Arena
ABOUT THE GAME
Developer:id Software
Publisher:Activision
Released:December 1999
Engine:Quake III Arena engine
Catalogued:26 mods, 0 maps, 2 tools, 33 engines, 1 articles

id's multiplayer-only arena shooter, and the reason half of this community owns a three-button mouse. There is no story worth mentioning and no campaign beyond the bots, and it has never needed either. The engine underneath is now licensed to half the shooters on the shelf.
MEDIA FOR THIS GAME
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ENGINES FOR THIS GAME
ENGINEBYLICENCESINCE
cake3 raynorpat GPL -
Daemon Unvanquished Development GPL -
DarkMatter Engine themuffinator GPL -
dfengine ykram GPL -
DXQuake3 Richard Geary GPL -
FQuake3 TIHan GPL -
id Tech 3 id Software GPL 1999
iodfengine runaos GPL -
ioq3-for-UrbanTerror-4 Frozen Sand GPL -
ioq3-renderer-bgfx jpcy GPL -
ioquake3 ioquake3 team GPL 2005
ioQuake3DS masterfeizz GPL -
ioquake3 for UrbanTerror mickael9 GPL -
ioUrbanTerror Urban Terror developers GPL -
Lilium Arena Classic Zack Middleton GPL -
OpenArena engine OpenArena Team GPL -
OpenWolf TheDushan GPL -
OpenWolf (XreaL) illwieckz GPL -
planet_quake Brian Cullinan GPL -
Q3lite cdev-tux GPL -
Qio Vodin GPL -
Quake3e Eugene Bartosh GPL -
Quake3e-UrT travmon GPL -
Quake III Arena Kenny Edition kennyalive GPL -
QuakeJS inolen GPL -
RBQUAKE-3 Robert Beckebans GPL -
Spearmint Zack Middleton GPL -
SWiSH_ioUrT strata GPL -
UrTDevs-Client UrT Devs GPL -
vkOpenArena suijingfeng GPL -
vkQuake3 suijingfeng GPL -
WolfcamQL brugal GPL -
XreaL Robert Beckebans GPL -
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DOWNLOADS FOR THIS GAME
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MODS FOR THIS GAME
MODTYPEAUTHORMAPS
3wctf Capture the Flag coltongit 0
Aftershock Competitive pbrochart 0
Aftershock XE Competitive Irbyz 0
Afterwards Deathmatch ElderPlayerX 0
baseq3a Gamecode patch Eugene Bartosh 0
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TOOLS FOR THIS GAME
TOOLTYPEBY
netradiant-custom Editor Garux
TrenchBroom Editor Kristian Duske
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TUTORIALS FOR THIS GAME
Adding Homing Missiles to Quake III Arena Tutorial
Posted by icarobr  |  Sep 15, 2026 05:00am  |  Permalink
The homing missile is the mod most people write first, and there are good reasons for that. It touches the entity list, the think scheduler, a console command and the trace system, and it does all of it in about a hundred lines spread across four files. You do not need to understand any of those systems yet to get it w...
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Quake III Arena has nobody attached to it. If you made it, the staff can put it under your name.

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