The Aftermath of QuakeCon

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."

Comments

Just what we wanted!

[frovingslosh]

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.

Still paying after all these years

[My name is Bucket]

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!

Re:Still paying after all these years

[thegnu]

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.