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The Aftermath of QuakeCon

Posted by Zonk on from the everything-old-is-new-again dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "This past week quite whispers and rumors became fact as two FPS giants, id and Valve joined forces to bring id games back catalog to Valve's Steam. This marks a huge influx of old classics as well as opening up the possibility of bringing some of the newest, most anticipated id games to Steam. That wasn't the only news, of course. There were many announcements by the FPS veteran: Quake Wars is slated for October 2nd release. Quake 3 is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Their next big game is called Rage , and will feature the id Tech 5 platform technology. All the details can be found in Eurogamer's full convention report. Probably the most interesting news from id was the revelation that they're working on a web-browser based version of Quake 3 . It's going to be completely free, supported by ad revenues."

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  1. Just what we wanted! by frovingslosh · · Score: 4, Funny
    Probably the most interesting news from id was the revelation that they're working on a web-browser based version of Quake 3 .

    Boy, I hope this can satisfy us while we wait for the colaboration with Infocom to bring us a text based version of Quake 4.

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    1. Re:Just what we wanted! by aichpvee · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well they already have a text-based version of Doom 3 for Linux. For some odd reason you type "clear" to start it. Weird.

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    2. Re:Just what we wanted! by Excors · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I've experimented with a simple FPS engine using the HTML5 <canvas> element (which provides a 2D graphics API for JavaScript). It's not exactly Quake (it's much more like Duke Nukem 3D minus the gameplay), but it works in most browsers and it's not too terribly slow. It can even do multiplayer AJAX deathmatch, though that's not available online right now...

      I expect id would do something more sane, though.

    3. Re:Just what we wanted! by babbling · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's already been done for Quake 2.

  2. Still paying after all these years by My+name+is+Bucket · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why are we getting a free version of Q3 when we still have to pay $10 for Doom? The game is so old, I've had to re-buy it 3 times-- once because the disc actually decomposed, and again when I left it by a tree and the tree grew over it, and finally when MIT procured it for carbon dating. Come on, give us old-school gamers some slack!

    1. Re:Still paying after all these years by thegnu · · Score: 4, Funny

      I hope you're not being serious. I mean, really, disc? I've still got the original Doom 2 floppies - the game isn't as recent as you make it sound.
      I think he may have been referring to the original sanskrit on clay disc distribution that failed early on.

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  3. Carmack's other announcements... by everything_X3N · · Score: 3, Informative

    Carmack also said yesterday in an interview with Game Informer that "there will be a Doom 4" at some point and "there's going to be a Quake Arena sequel." The Quake Arena sequel will be built with the id Tech 5 engine. Also, Carmack stated that id Tech 5 will probably not be changed to Direct3D 10 for the PC version of Rage (the engine uses OpenGL). http://gameinformer.com/News/Story/200708/N07.0803 .1731.12214.htm?Page=1

  4. Quake by samwh · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, its not Doom, but the original Quake maps were open sourced by Mr. Romero recently: http://rome.ro/2006/10/quake-map-sources-released. html

  5. ooo we definitely need all those games available by nomadic · · Score: 3, Funny

    This marks a huge influx of old classics as well as opening up the possibility of bringing some of the newest, most anticipated id games

    Great, the variety of Id's library is amazing. Futuristic/Horror Shooter 1, Futuristic/Horror Shooter 2, Futuristic/Horror Shooter 3, and of course the legendary Futuristic/Horror Shooter 4.

  6. Games on Steam... by micpp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From what I've heard the various DOS games that id has put on steam seem to use the DOS emulator DOSbox to work. DOSbox is GPL but it seems id has neglected any idea of following this license agreement. Do you think this could cause some problems?

  7. No music in Quake 1 or 2 on Steam. by samwh · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ugh. They have yet again left the music out of the Quake 1 and 2 games from Steam (they left the music out of Quake 2 that was bundled with Quake 4). While it is certianly a sad thing for Quake 2, it is a TRAGEDY for Quake 1, which had it's soundtrack done by Trent Razor. It is a shame to leave the music out of these great games...