Quake Live Open Beta Begins Feb. 24th

The Quake Live team has announced that the beta will open to the public on Tuesday, February 24th. On Monday, they will take the servers down, wipe all stats and prune inactive accounts, then re-open on the public site. Personal settings and current account info will be maintained for active accounts. They also said, "We're going to post some additional information in the Developer Notes about the opening of the game, what it means to leave the 'beta' tag on the site during this time, and discuss some features and functionality that we're planning for the next couple of months that we know you'll be interested in." GameSetWatch ran a story recently by a columnist who tried out the closed beta, and we discussed John Carmack's thoughts on the game a few months back.

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13 years to the day since QTEST

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I was thinking about this the other day, but QTEST was on fpt servers on Feb 24 1996 - the worlds first glimpse of the awesome 3D game, Quake.

Of course the actual game didn't come out until June 22 of that year.

I played QTEST only after the event, as I only got my computer in the summer of '96, and I can still remember hacking about with the arcane text files and hacked utils to get BSP files which allowed me to create a box room and run about in it with a monster or something. This was before graphical level editors were widely available.