http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/quakecon http://kotaku.com/tag/quakecon Id's annual celebration of virtual people shooting other virtual people will take place August 2 – 5 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. If you start studying up for John Carmack's annual keynote right now you should be able to understand it by then! [QuakeCon] More »
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After getting an hour with Skyrim at QuakeCon last weekend, I was promised by I'd get a screenshot of the character I'd created from Bethesda when I returned home, like a souvenir. More »
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Being one of the largest LAN parties and nerd gatherings in the world, you may think Quakecon is an ugly, grimy, sweaty place. It can be! But this video from Matt Garza shows it can also be beautiful. More »
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I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn't give a dragon's ass about the story in Skyrim. It may well be wonderful, but as the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series—none of which I've played for more than an hour or two at most—I've never had any opportunity to understand, let alone grow to love, the story. More »
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About six months ago, Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines figured Feb. 18 was the perfect day to conceive a child, as the baby would be due on Nov. 11, the ship date for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. One couple conceived well early of that, but their baby's birth will still forever be associated with the game. More »
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The John Carmack keynote at Quakecon is always memorable and a bit of a mental marathon. The man builds games, invents gaming tech and created real life rocketships in his spare time. More »
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Hello, eerbody! I'm in Dallas, Texas, at QuakeCon, about to have my first play time with id Software's new marquee title, Rage. I hope to write up impressions later, but I thought you might enjoy seeing my notes live as I play. More »
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Direct from QuakeCon 2011, here's twenty minutes of Tribes: Ascend in action, filmed during a demonstrations of Hi-Rez Studios' revitalization of the beloved franchise. Makes me want to play it all over again. More »
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This afternoon, in an empty conference room inside the Hilton Anatole—a bizarre amalgam of hotel, conference center, and shopping mall—John Carmack sat alone in an uncomfortable metal chair, staring straight ahead. The technical director and co-founder of id Software, the company that invented the first-person shooter genre that now dominates much of the hard core video game industry, patiently waited to give the opening keynote of Quakecon 2011, a fan conference held annually in Dallas, Texas since 1997. More »
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• Rage has been in the pipe for six years. "We invented this genre and we followed it a long ways...Maybe we shouldn't have been quite as ambitious."

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]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827924&view=rss&microfeed=true During his kenote speech this afternoon at QuakeCon 2011, id Software's John Carmack revealed that the source code for Doom 3 would be released to the public later this year, sometime after the October release of Rage. More »
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We here at Kotaku are waiting, hoping, wondering if there will be Doom 4 news during the QuakeCon 2011 keynote that is occurring as I type this. We got a new Rage trailer already. We got some iOS id games going on sale. And now.... More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827838&view=rss&microfeed=true Bethesda said today that once the RAGE Facebook page reaches 100,000 "Likes", RAGE HD for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch will be available for free for one week. Like them on Facebook. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827825&view=rss&microfeed=true Starting today, Steam is celebrating id and Bethesda's Quakecon with deals on their games. Sales will change daily from now until August 8th. Today's deals include discounted games, free-to-play Brink, and in-game specials for TF2. More »
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For a time, years, whenever a person talked about a first-person shooter they called it a Doom Clone. Such was the power, the influence of one of the first, first-person shooters, the proto-FPS. More »
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In celebration of this weekend's QuakeCon and the 20th anniversary of id Software, id and Bethesda sent me the most hideous cake I've ever had sitting on my coffee table, and I shop at the Publix bakery. More »
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QuakeCon isn't just a celebration of all things id Software (and a touch of Bethesda) it's also one of the longest running bring-your-own-computer gaming events in the world. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5826562&view=rss&microfeed=true Fans eager to see what Atlanta-based Hi-Rez Studios is doing to the Tribes franchise should head for QuakeCon in Dallas August 4 through 7, where Tribes: Ascend will be available in playable form, with closed beta keys up for grabs. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5820991&view=rss&microfeed=true QuakeCon, the annual celebration of all things id Software (and now Bethesda Softworks), kicks off on Aug. 4 in Dallas, Texas this year. The event will run until Aug. 7 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. More »
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Doom 4 was a no-show at this year's QuakeCon, and id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead told me he'll take the arrows for raising expectations it would be there. He also share with me a sliver of details about the game. More »
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id Software's next big shooter, Rage, built on its next big engine, id Tech 5, now has a ship date. Get ready to wait a little longer for Rage, for it won't be out until September 2011. More »
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Stephen Totilo is live at Quakecon sitting in as three developers walk the audience through the latest on id Software's upcoming shooter, driver, role-playing game Rage. More »
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You cannot walk through QuakeCon out here in Dallas without spotting a large computer. People drag them in wagons or saunter through the halls of the host hotel with their arms in a personal-computer embrace. Let's start with this beast: More »
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John Carmack's thoughts today on Doom 3. The programmer says id Software was legitimately "dinged" for making the 2004 game too dark, wishing he'd added more lighting options to the tech, adding "the artists hiss at us if we turn on lights." More »
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We really thought that id Software would give us an update on Doom 4 at this year's QuakeCon. After all, id CEO Todd Hollenshead said at last year's event that we'd hear more about the next Doom in 2010. More »
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Where can you get 27 different id Software and Bethesda Softworks titles for only $70? At the Steam QuakeCon 2010 Sale, along with daily specials on the best games the two companies have to offer. More »
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During his keynote speech at QuakeCon 2010, id Software's John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone, running at 60 frames-per-second and able to "kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2." More »
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Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines just revealed at QuakeCon 2010 that its parent company Zenimax Media has welcomed another developer into its fold. Zenimax, which acquired Quake developer id Software last year, is also the new home of Arkane Studios. More »
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It's time to liveblog the QuakeCon 2010 keynote, everyone! What will id (and Bethesda) talk about? More »
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Today is day one of QuakeCon in Dallas, Texas. The main event should be the show's keynote address, which kicks off at 2:00pm in Dallas, which is 1pm Kotaku Time (aka MT). We'll be liveblogging it. More »
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Bummed that you can't make it to Dallas this weekend to hang with Kotaku at QuakeCon 2010? Quake Live TV will be bringing you live coverage of all the major tournaments, so all you'll need is a cardboard Totilo cutout. More »
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id software today announced a date, time and place for QuakeCon, its annual celebration of all things Quake. And Doom. And anything else id has ever done, or is doing in the future. More »
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There will be 12s in Rage, I was told recently. This was mentioned by an id Software developer as I tried to gather facts about id Software's next game. 12s? Oh, yes. 12s. More »
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John Carmack said he's a reason id Software didn't become more like Epic. He doesn't regret his company's graphics tech no longer being a go-to system for the industry. More »
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Ever walk into a room and get stuck on a table? No? How about in a video game? If so, Paul Wedgwood has a solution for you. More »
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"I think we've put enough content out there for this game," Fallout 3's Todd Howard told Kotaku in Dallas last week, having finished offering gamers an unprecedented amount of content fot a single-player game. More »
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The lights in the cavernous room are off, but an electric glow fills the 70,000-square-foot room. More »
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Paul Wedgwood, fervent gamer turned bold game designer, believes he has identified the greatest experience a player can have in a video game. And he's determined to make it possible for us all to experience it. More »
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Programmer extraordinaire John Carmack threw cold water earlier this week on the idea that id's popular free shooter can survive without charging some users something. More »
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Splash Damage's 2010 squad-shooter Brink wowed our Luke Plunkett at E3. Here at QuakeCon, a public demo of the game wowed several hundred more people. The game defies easy classification. It's ambitious. More »
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