Quake World Championship takes place August 26 for $1 million prize
Bethesda announced its Quake World Championship event will take place at Quakecon on August 26 in Dallas, Texas. The winners will take home $1...
Quake Champions isn’t Overwatch, but it borrows the right ideas
Let me just admit this upfront: I haven’t played a lot of Quake in my life. During that time of the late 1990s, I...
Strafe hands-on: The old-school PC shooter you’ve waited for since 1996
New games are dumb. I’m into that old-school stuff because video games used to have attitude. Thankfully, Strafe is coming soon to provide the low-poly...
Bethesda releases the fast, raw Quake Champions footage you crave
Forget cinematic story trailers. Put away your behind-the-scenes development footage. I just want to see what the hell Quake Champions looks like, and Bethesda...
Quake shook up the shooter market 20 years ago
One of the most important games in shooter history is celebrating a big birthday. Quake came out for DOS PCs on June 22, 1996,...
Bethesda takes the wraps off Quake Champions
Bethesda showed off a new version of the renown Quake first-person shooter series as the opening announcement at its press and fan event today...
The first esports pro wants to leave a legacy for passion and enthusiasm
A whole generation of gamers have grown up and become esports fans without ever hearing the name Thresh — at least, not unless you’re...
Doom co-creator John Carmack under fire for allegedly taking ‘proprietary technology’ to Facebook’s Oculus VR
Zenimax says it owns key technology that makes the Oculus Rift work since Carmack developed it while still an employee of id Software.
After 20 years, Doom co-creator John Romero looks back on the impact of a seminal (and Satanic) game (interview)
Doom gave birth to a whole economy within the game business, and Romero talks about what it all meant.
Bethesda confirms departure of id Software’s longtime biz guy
The longtime "biz guy" left the maker of Doom games after 17 years.