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QuakeCon 2012 Dated For Early August

9:45AM January 25, 2012 | Mike Fahey

Id’s annual celebration of virtual people shooting other virtual people will take place August 2-5 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. If you start studying up for John Carmack’s annual keynote right now you should be able to understand it by then! [QuakeCon]


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Technically, This Is A New Skyrim Screenshot

2:40AM August 13, 2011 | Joel Johnson

After getting an hour with Skyrim at QuakeCon last weekend, I was promised by I’d get a screenshot of the character I’d created from Bethesda when I returned home, like a souvenir. More »


In Real Life

See Quakecon 2011 Fly By In Just 1:11

3:00PM August 9, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Being one of the largest LAN parties and nerd gathering in the world, you may think Quakecon is an ugly, grimy, sweaty place. It can be! But this video from Matt Garza shows it can also be beautiful. More »


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An Hour With Skyrim. It’s Amazing.

4:00AM August 9, 2011 | Joel Johnson

I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn’t give a dragon’s arse about the story in Skyrim. It may well be wonderful, but as the fifth instalment in The Elder Scrolls series — none of which I’ve played for more than an hour or two at most — I’ve never had any opportunity to understand, let alone grow to love, the story. More »


In Real Life

Pregnant Mum Fends Off Labour Long Enough To See Skyrim Demo

6:00AM August 8, 2011 | Owen Good

About six months ago, Bethesda Softworks’ Pete Hines figured Feburary 18 was the perfect day to conceive a child, as the baby would be due on November 11, the ship date for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. One couple conceived well early of that, but their baby’s birth will still forever be associated with the game. More »


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Watch One Of John Carmack’s Fabled QuakeCon Talks

4:20AM August 6, 2011 | Brian Crecente

The John Carmack keynote at Quakecon is always memorable and a bit of a mental marathon. The man builds games, invents gaming tech and created real life rocketships in his spare time. More »


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Live From QuakeCon, A Rage Playthrough Liveblog

3:30AM August 6, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Hello, eerbody! I’m in Dallas, Texas, at QuakeCon, about to have my first play time with id Software’s new marquee title, Rage. I hope to write up impressions later, but I thought you might enjoy seeing my notes live as I play. More »


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20 Minutes Of Tribes: Ascend In Glorious Shaky-Cam-O-Vision

2:40AM August 6, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Direct from QuakeCon 2011, here’s 20 minutes of Tribes: Ascend in action, filmed during a demonstrations of Hi-Rez Studios’ revitalisation of the beloved franchise. Makes me want to play it all over again. More »


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Choice Quotes From John Carmack’s 2011 QuakeCon Keynote

10:40AM August 5, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Rage has been in the pipe for six years. “We invented this genre and we followed it a long ways…Maybe we shouldn’t have been quite as ambitious.”

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id Sets Quake 3 Source Code Free Post-Rage

7:00AM August 5, 2011 | Mike Fahey

During his keynote speech this afternoon at QuakeCon 2011, id Software’s John Carmack revealed that the source code for Doom 3 would be released to the public later this year, sometime after the October release of Rage.