Some games just will not die. Thanks to the wonder of ports, re-releases, download sales and rabid fan communities, certain titles remain part of the gaming landscape long after their original release window. Some deserve it, and some are Mortal Kombat II, but thankfully Quake 3 Arena is one of the former. And now, three years after the 360 port's announcement in 2007, it looks like id's masterful multiplayer shooter will finally be arriving on home consoles.
Which of course prompts old PC Quake snobs like myself to point accusingly at the console controllers I ordinarily love and lambast them with cruel, cruel laughter.
HAHA! STUPID ANALOGUES! HAHAHA! Etc. Ahem.
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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.
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
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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 ....
Activision has somehow managed to shake loose two more shots of the mighty PC and Xbox 360 shooter, .
While these shots might be low in number, their high quality reveals just how you, playing as Matthew Kane, plan to march right into the heart of the Strogg Empire.
Powered by the Doom 3 engine, this sequel follows our hero as he becomes part Strogg and then uses their alien technology against them.Quake IV will deploy on to Xbox 360 and
We were quite taken aback when we saw the PC version of Quake 4 at Activision's pre-E3 conference. To say that in places it was highly unpleasant and completely unnecessary is telling just half the story.
, viewing from the first-person, we got to experience the stages involved in being turned into a Strogg. Stages that involved brutal stabbing and dismemberment. It was wrong on so many levels.
However, wrong or not, some people will like it, and we're sure these people will welcome the news
As part of one of the hottest FPS franchises in existence, the latest instalment of Quake is by no means just another release. This is as important as anything else, and it's coming to Xbox 360.
Unlike the arena-based wonders of Quake 3, Quake 4 is the true sequel to Quake 2, featuring a single-player mode that, when all is said and done, looks a lot like Doom 3. It seems that if you use the Doom 3 engine, your game becomes Doom.
The first part of the demonstration we saw was worryingly
Activision has belatedly confirmed that Quake 4 will be released for Xbox 360 (we kind of guessed as much after was shown on MTV last week).
More pertinently, however, the publisher has released one - count it! - screenshot from the game. As expected, blood, gore and massive weaponry all feature prominently.
"Quake 4 utilises the power of our groundbreaking Doom 3 engine to transport players into a war-torn, science-fiction universe graphically realised like never before," reckons Todd
Speaking at a launch event for the Xbox version of Doom 3, id Software's CEO Todd Hollenshead confirmed Quake IV will be playable at QuakeCon X - which takes place in Texas on 11-14 August - before going on to speak about the development of id games on next-generation platforms.
Prompted by a question from the crowd, Hollenshead spoke frankly about the development of future id games - including Quake IV - on next-gen consoles, pointing out that it's in the company's financial interest to do
