Starting today, Steam is celebrating id and Bethesda’s Quakecon with deals on their games. Sales will change daily from now until August 8. Today’s deals include discounted games, free-to-play Brink, and in-game specials for TF2.
John Carmack is currently working on RAGE, a game that, from what we’ve seen, will feature a fair amount of violence. His resume, which includes legendary games like Doom and Quake, hasn’t exactly been short of violence either – so when he speaks up about the impact of said violence, it’s probably worth listening. Especially in the wake of the Oslo shootings.
Back in 1992, id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, a title that ushered in an entirely new genre and showed developers and gamers just how immersive and visceral a video game could be. Two decades later comes Rage.
In 2006, before Kinect and maybe even before Wii, gamer Niel de la Rouviere decided to make a motion-controller for Quake III. He says he was bored; I say that Niel de la Rouviere, armed with masking tape, was efficient.
Blazing your way through the original Quake from 1996 in less than 60 minutes might not impress hardened speed run enthusiasts, but what about doing so while also nailing 100% completion in Quake on its hardest difficulty?