Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Unity 3d 2.5 comes in the form of a free demo. Its a powerful games engine capable of anything you care to code into it. It comes with an editor which is on a par with Crysis Sandbox or BF2 editor in appearance but the scope to mod it with your own script etc is endless.
There are a few example projects out there and plenty of tutorials.
One big benefit to it is that it can create games that launch from a website and run in the browser.. but the quality can be as high as you like.. not like flash or shockwave etc.
Just visit the site click 'play' and you are in.. multiplayer etc is obviously available.
I have taken a look at it but not in too much detail.. with a few heads here looking at it.. especially those of you who are familiar with java or C+ (even a little) I bet we could make a very basic car game. What is important about this route is that we have total control. In addition we can (just for example) include advertising in the menus of the game, or even in game and actually monetize the game. we actually make money from people playing it... Im not sugeesting advertising is a priority but its a good example of how to make money from something that you can give away for free.. I have a copy but would really appreciate a few different opinions on it and thoughts from people familiar with scripting if you want to try this