During today's Quake Con keynote the id folks announced that they have a team of developers working on a little pet project called Quake Zero.
QZ will be a free web-based version of Quake 3 multiplayer. Todd Hollenshead told Kotaku they decided to kick off this project for several reasons. First and foremost, id hated to see their game, once quite popular for online matches, losing its prominence in the online gaming scene, this will allow virtually anyone with a computer to play matches of their games.
The latest update for Quake Live brings many important fixes to Mac and Linux users and new client-side game options, including indicators for damage received and damage dealt.
These new options are intended to improve your ability to assess when you are taking damage and how effective you are at dealing damage to your opponents.
As promised last week at QuakeCon, id Software has now added Mac and Linux support for their browser based free-to-play first person shooter Quake Live. In their release notes, they mention that for now Mac support is confined to Apple's Safari browser but they hope to have Firefox Mac support up and running soon.
Love Firefox, all the plugs are awesome... But for me, Safari is just Snappier...
A premium subscription service for Quake Live is on the way to the free online game, according to id founder John Carmack.
During his QuakeCon keynote address, Carmack explained to the crowd that in-game advertising was not enough to support the web-based title.
lol...why not just ask for 5 bucks a pop. a subscription on quake arena? that's borderline activision'ish
omg thank you!!! thank you! i love quake 3 soooo much! awesome!
...I agree it's too bad Quake's dieing out in favor of newer titles, but I would rather pay $50 for a well-executed Quake 5 than get Quake 3 for free (particularly since I've already played the game for over 8 years and own 2-3 copies of the game).
how are you planning on geting it for free lol?? anyway i cant wait for this little gem cant wait to get sum quaake action on live BRING ON THE PAIN