Since its release in 1996, Quake has had many ports, allowing FPS fans across a huge variety of platforms from Sega Saturn to Nintendo Switch to enjoy its high-speed action. It turns out that the game also had Game Boy Advance port that, until now, has never seen the light …
Read More »26 years after its original release, Quakes latest update gives it a suite of accessibility options
The enhanced edition of Quake has added accessibility options more than two decades after the original game’s release. They say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but in the case of the iconic first-person shooter Quake, it appears that you can. The enhanced version of the game, …
Read More »QuakeCon started life as an internet chat room with fans and developers
The idea for QuakeCon originally came from an internet chatroom between fans and developers who wanted to play iD Software’s games together. As detailed in issue 227 of Retro Gamer, QuakeCon was born in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) room in the early 90s. Run for fans, by fans, the …
Read More »Id Softwares hiring for “a long-running iconic action FPS” – but what could it be?
Id Software’s parent company, ZeniMax, has posted a raft of new job vacancies, sending the rumor mill into overdrive, with many speculating that the new hires may be working on a new Quake game. A leap? Ordinarily, maybe. But ZeniMax has emphasized that the new positions (opens in new tab) …
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