Tag: id software

  • Robert Yang’s Quake Renaissance

    The Internet’s JP tweeted about this fantastic series on RPS from Robert “radiator” Yang about Quake’s history, how to play it with mods today, and the wonderful history of the scene around it: Quake modding symbolizes the opposite of work – it is life. And ultimately this is what the Quake Renaissance is about: when…

  • Quake 1’s Re-Release on Modern Platforms

    At QuakeCon 2021, Bethesda and id software re-released Quake 1 for Windows, and put it out for the first time on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series S/X. The Windows version is free to anyone who already owned it on Bethesda’s launcher or Steam. The re-release embeds the original game…

  • Quake Champions Closed Beta

    Bethesda and id announced a Quake Champions closed beta test with this trailer. I’m real curious how this turns out, but I’m already kind of skeptical about the character-specific powers. We’ll see how it turns out when the beta starts. Bethesda notably stopped sending out their games for review prior to the games being released,…

  • Noclip’s 2nd Documentary: DOOM

    Danny O’Dwyer‘s noclip has a 2nd documentary series out, this time it’s going to hell with id Software’s DOOM.

  • Quake Champions & Prey Get Gameplay Trailers

    Quake Champions and the new Prey were announced back at Bethesda’s E3 2016 Press Briefing. Both have new trailers out with gameplay footage during the annual Quakecon gathering. That has become Bethesda’s second conference of the year in addition to the traditional giant LAN party. I was initially pretty psyched for a new multiplayer arena-shooter Quake…