Quake Live at E3 2008

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Fr0dus Maximus

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6193726.html

Just a snippet from the article.
It isn't at all unusual to hear the word's "pioneer" and "id Software" uttered within the space of a breath. After all, the Mesquite, Texas-based outfit dramatically revolutionized the gaming industry in 1993 with the ground-breaking first-person shooter Doom. Since then, the developer has maintained its position as a technological innovator, thanks in no small part to programming wunderkind John Carmack.

At last year's QuakeCon, the notable studio first teased its next ambitious effort in the gaming industry, announcing a free-to-play, ad-supported version of Quake III Arena. However, forgoing the traditional brick-and-mortar distribution channel, and outright leapfrogging the fledgling digital download market, id revealed the game would be streamed as a native application through an everyday Web browser.

Nearly a year on and a partnership with in-game advertising kingpins IGA Worldwide later, id is preparing to open the flood gates on QuakeLive.com, the platform that will host the free-to-play, browser-based Quake III Arena. With id expecting to flip the switch on QuakeLive.com as soon as next month, GameSpot sat down with id Software founder and technical director John Carmack as well as executive producer Marty Stratton.
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Anyone with a browser can play this game for free and anyone that has a computer that was released in the passed 10 years will be able to run this. What I like the most about this, except the fact that they changed the name from Quake Zero to QuakeLive, is that anybody and their grandmother can enjoy the excitement of Quake 3 Arena style gameplay for free. Thanks to Mega for the article.

I'm sure to see the faces from EGA on QuakeLive when it comes out in the next month or so.
 
I'm sad that it's not a digital download, the browser-based gaming makes playing LAN with friends slightly more difficult unless they still add a server browser and the ability to host custom games.
 
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