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id Software Bethesda Softworks have today revealed the date and location of this year's QuakeCon. A celebrated annual event in the gaming calendar, QuakeCon sees thousands of gamers meet to engage in their passion as a community.

Everybody's talking Crysis these days. But what about the aged Doom 3 engine that powers games like Prey, Quake 4 and ET: Quake Wars? What kind of graphics quality can be achieved? PCGH.com makes the test.

Philips announced today that they have signed an agreement with id software to provide an amBX mod for Quake 4. Now, those with the amBX peripherals can experience custom light, rumble and wind effects to help enhance the experience. An amBX enabled version of Quake 4 was shown off at QuakeCon, where it was received positively.

Next-Gen's hearing buzz that id is going to announce a deal with Valve at Quakecon this week... No, it's not your dream FPS where Gordon Freeman battles Strogg, but it sounds likely that id will be bringing its games to Valve's Steam digital distribution platform.

A new Quake 4 multiplayer demo has been released by id Software, the new release featuring the updates in the Quake 4 1.4.2 Point Release Patch that the developer made available last

id Software's CEO Todd Hollenshead has revealed that videogame piracy "has pushed id as being multiplatform." In a lecture on videogame piracy during last week's GDC, he explained that the Doom and Quake developer started to eye console platforms as a method to battle the financial loss piracy incurs. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was given as an example of id's multiplatform direction. Originally in development for PC at the hands of Splash Damage and id Software, the multiplayer-focused

DIRECTV announced today that the the second U.S. Championship Gaming Invitational will air Feb. 10 and 11, on DIRECTV's The 101. Gaming legend Johnathan Fatal1ty Wendel will capture the action as the exclusive play-by-play commentator and global league spokesperson and advisor. WHO: PARTICIPATING ATHLETES INCLUDE: Emmanuel Master Rodriguez, Adande Swoozie Thorne, Caitlin Venus Buckshaw, Brian Bboyle Boyle, Winfield 7humbs Hill, Vanessa PMS Vanessa Arteaga and Kristin Vanity Assassin Neglia GAMES IN COMPETITION INCLUDE: -- Counter-Strike: Source -- Dead or Alive 4 -- Project Gotham Racing 3 -- World of Warcraft -- Quake 4 ....

It appears that NVIDIA SLI owners cannot run the recently released Prey demo. NVIDIA has issued a statement with a workaround as well as word on an upcoming driver patch: A few enthusiasts have commented that the recent Prey demo does not support NVIDIA SLI. NVIDIA is currently testing a Prey SLI profile, which we expect to release later this week in a new driver on nZone.com. In the meantime, users can simply copy and paste the Quake 4 profile to make Prey scale. Prey and Quake 4 were developed with the DOOM 3 (OpenGL) engine, and SLI scales very well on Quake 4. NVIDIA recommends users download the new 91.31 Forceware drivers for Prey. This driver works great on the Prey demo with all NVIDIA GPUs.