World Video Game Hall of Fame announces 2025 inductees
Game developers rejoice. Defender, GoldenEye 007, Quake, and Tamagotchi have joined the World Video Game Hall of Fame at The Strong National Museum of...
Making Doom and building the FPS industry at 100 miles per hour | John Romero interview
John Romero is perhaps the ideal person to record the early history of first-person shooters, the genre of hardcore gaming with tens of billions...
Prime Gaming offers Quake in December as Luna catalog thins
Amazon has announced the final round of free games coming to Prime Gaming subscribers in 2022. The December 2022 offering includes the classic Quake,...
The RetroBeat: Quake is back at a perfect time
Sometimes, things really just go my way. I recently developed a hankering for retro first-person shooter games. Just last week, I talked about how...
Quake ‘revitalized edition’ is imminent as game appears on ESRB rating site
The Quakecon fan event starts today, and shockingly, it looks like Bethesda and id Software plan to reveal some news about the classic shooter....
The RetroBeat: Can Microsoft save Quake?
With Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of Bethesda, everyone is buzzing about how the Xbox brand now owns huge franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout,...
Watch QuakeCon (and the first Doom Eternal gameplay) live right here
The annual celebration of id Software and its publisher Bethesda Softworks is underway once again, and you can watch it live by clicking play...
Quake Champions gets a free trial — that will stay free if you download it
Bethesda announced today that Quake Champions would be getting a free trial, making the news onstage at the publisher’s showcase event ahead of the Electronic...
Saber Interactive: Classic shooters show off technical chops
Presented by Intel With Quake Champions, Saber Interactive has set itself the task to make a modern Quake: frenetic and crazy as it ever...
GamesBeat 2017 latest speakers: Thresh, game investor Ping Li, and Adam Sessler
GamesBeat 2017 is at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6, and we’re delighted to announce our next three speakers. This...