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Quake Live Gets Linux and Mac Support

Back in 2007, id Software came up with the idea of Quake Live, a browser-based first-person shooter that preserved the spirit of the popular Quake III Arena video game. In 2008 the project entered an invitation-based closed beta stage, and an open beta was available starting with February 2009. The only problem was t...

14 August 2009
04:00 GMT

id Software Saddened by the Termination of Duke Nukem Forever

id Software, the prestigious developer that is responsible for cult titles such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, or Quake, has recently shared its thoughts about the dismantling of the team from 3D Realms, which was working on the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever video game. The company has said, through the voice of its Dir...

16 June 2009
16:41 GMT

New Gaming Console Zeebo Is Launched

This year’s Game Developers Conference has seen an event that might be considered, a few years into the future, as the start of a new era in videogaming. John Rizzo, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Zeebo, and Mike Yuen, who is a senior director with Qualcomm, have announced the launch of a new gaming cons...

24 March 2009
17:31 GMT

British Probe to Provide Insight on Moonquakes

Lunar quakes were discovered during the Apollo missions, and found to be of several types, but the actual source for each of them has eluded scientists so far, given that our natural satellite has no record of tectonic activity. And if we are ever to have a stable base on the Moon's surface, one that can take in...

24 November 2008
16:01 GMT

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Contest Puts $5,000 Prizes up for Grabs

If you're an Xbox 360 fan and love playing Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, you can now mix the two, blend them together, have a great time and enter a competition that could bring you some goodies - we're talking about prizes of over $5,000! All these thanks to UGO Networks, id Software, Activision and the New...

18 April 2008
15:16 GMT

A Megaquake Will Hit California Until 2037

We do not know if Superman will be around to save the situation, but by 2037, a megaquake could strike California. A new three-year analysis made by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), and California Geological Survey shows the existence of a 99.7% chance that a quake with...

16 April 2008
05:16 GMT

Mac Owners, Prepare to Enter Enemy Territory

Who says Mac owners don't benefit from the most popular games out there? Oh wait, that's us. Nevertheless, Aspyr Media, the same company behind The Sims Castaway Stories recently released for Mac, has also released the Mac installment of one of the most popular FPS games ever developed: Enemy Territory: QUA...

19 March 2008
12:02 GMT

'Dangerous Dave' Goes Mobile

WILDEC and DEVOLER in collaboration with Flat Rock Software just announced the release of Dangerous Dave in The Haunted Mansion, a remake of a classic platform game for mobile phones. You are to travel through the Mansion full of evil spirits, ghouls, and other threats, in search for your missing brother. After the e...

12 March 2008
06:03 GMT

Quake Hacked for Nokia N95 Support

One of the most thrilling PC games of the '90s, Quake, has just been adapted in order to perfectly run on a Nokia N95 smartphone. Some individual developers have achieved this success and not a company looking to make profit from this. A user of the "all about symbian" forum has posted a thread along with a link...

4 September 2007
06:25 GMT

Quake Con 2007 - Id Software Reveals 'Quake Zero'

You'll never believe what today's Quake Con keynote revealed. According to well known gaming site Kotaku.com, folks over at id Software announced they have a team of developers carrying out work on a new Quake - a sort of a smaller project. Quake Zero is the name, and shooting will be the game, as you might...

6 August 2007
04:30 GMT

World's Second Geyser Field, Swallowed by a Landslide

A geyser is a type of hot spring that erupts periodically, ejecting a column of hot water and steam into the air. Their emergence needs a combination of factors (water, heat and fortuitous plumbing) that exists in only a few places on Earth, and so they are fairly rare phenomena. There are about 1,000 worldwide and a...

7 June 2007
10:30 GMT

A Huge Tsunami Hit Britain 400 Years Ago; A Mega-Tsunami Will Do it Soon

They did not even know what struck them, but a tsunami was what hit an England shore 400 years ago, bringing about the deadliest natural disaster in the British history. The massive flood on January 30, 1607 went over the Bristol Channel (southwestern England), submerging over 190 square miles (500 square km) of lan...

9 May 2007
04:16 GMT

Slow Deep Quakes Forecast the Big Destructive Quakes

The big earthquakes are triggered by the high-frequency seismic energy stored within a certain time length in a seismic zone and can turn into sand castles the strongest buildings in just a few seconds. But the recently discovered slow earthquakes can last for months, not seconds, and give off little or no seismic e...

7 May 2007
05:28 GMT

Consoles Will Die Out by 2010 - Mobiles and PCs Will Take Over. Really Now...?

OK, this, you gotta hear. Ishaan from gaming site Flame War ADVANCE sat down with execs at Exigent, a Noida-based Indian outsourcing company that deals with video game art and spoke about India, China and the future of gaming. So, Exigent's Chief Creative Officer Paul Steed, talks about India's role in futu...

30 March 2007
11:20 GMT

Quake 4 Combat Tips and Tricks (Xbox 360)

In a desperate war for Earth's survival against an unrelenting alien enemy, the only way to defeat them is to become one of them. Armed with advanced weaponry and vehicles and aided by an elite squad of marines, you take the battle to the heart of the Strogg home planet and become Earth's only hope for vict...

5 March 2007
06:17 GMT


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