Bethesda this morning announced that this year’s QuakeCon, which would have been the 25th anniversary of the event, has officially been cancelled over the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Carmack, the legendary iD programmer and chief technology officer for Oculus, has announced he’s leaving the company to focus his efforts on artificial intelligence.
Quake 2 is a dark, flat game, and not the most obvious choice for a company wanting to showcase new graphics tech. But then, maybe that’s the whole point behind Quake 2 RTX, an updated demo version that’s got a lot of ray-tracing.