Sad News: VoodooExtreme.com (VE3D in later years) is now dead

[ArithonUK]

VoodooExtreme was created in 1997 as a fan site and support blog for owners of 3DFX graphics cards by Billy "Wicked" Wilson. It was one of the first PC gaming websites and blazed the trail. The site had news, drivers and help on making your Voodoo graphics card work and which games were really cool to run.

I started reading the site early on and it was the first forum I ever joined in 2001. Later when IGN took over, they lost all our accounts and then "revised" the forums back to a comments page, sucking the life and personality out of the site.

The site was renamed VE3D in 2000 and bought out in 2003 (as I recall) by IGN (a subsidiary of Fox media) and the site went downhill (IMO) from there on, diversifying to cover console news and becoming a jack of trades. Gradually the original team departed, Robert "Apache" Howath being the last to go.

In January this year IGN cut the site's budget to zero, offering to "let the site continue" if the staff worked "on a voluntary basis". Nice.

Well, Ryan "Ohm Wrecker" Lord posted his goodbyes on Friday and now the site will, in all probability, go off-line before the end of the year.

So with my first 3DFX game in one hand (Carmageddon) and a beer in the other, I raise a glass and say "farewell VoodooExtreme! You were loved and will be missed!"

VE3D has gone to join its creator Billy Wilson, who tragically died in 2005 aged 33.

[Jamin]

I still have a Voodoo 3 somewhere and remember being stunned at the quality in Unreal which was my first venture into multiplayer online gaming.

[sulky_uk]

i still have my voodoo 5500 agp in a box in storage in the uk

[Liberator]

I threw away my old "Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo 2"  board a few years ago, the one you had to piggyback off a standard card. Cirrus Logic 512 2D card, with the VGA piped into the Voodoo 2 via a short cable. Made Quake 2 look rather pretty on my old 15 inch monitor.

[Tutonic]

i still have my voodoo 5500 agp in a box in storage in the uk

I had one of those. Utterly bonkers, clearly designed by a madman but it was one hell of a card.

I fondly remember turning on Anti-Aliasing for the first time (it was one of the very first cards to sport this feature), and though it instantly reduced my TFC frame-rate to rubble it made the game look gorgeous.

[kregoron]

still got my old voodoo 3 in a glorious box together with all the other bits from those days..

And my coleague has a early sample of the insane Voodoo 5 6000 in a frame at his home (now that was a big card)