April’s Fool is all about playing a prank on somebody or do something funny. idsoftware did exactly that and created a special splash screen visible only when visiting quakelive.com for the first time during an active browser session. For those who missed it – hiding in the basement trying to dodge lame jokes huh? –
Well, it seems Quake Live is more popular than idsoftware expected it to be, as Todd Hollenshead was so impressed by the sheer number of signups for the closed and open beta of Quake Live that they are even thinking about porting other games like QuakeWars and ET to the browser platform. Todd Hollenshead The
IGA Worldwide, the company providing the in-game advertising for Quake Live, is struggling with funding due to the continuing global depression.
Chairman Justin Townsend yesterday announced in a phone call with Venturebeat.com IGA either needs new investors or find someone who’ll take over the company.
As reported earlier this week, the Quake Live open beta is released today! The Quake Live closed beta website permanently shut down about 36 hours ago to prepare for the grand opening. All we could see these last few hours was a timer, slowly counting down to 0.
A lot of questions remained unanswered. The id software developers have done a great job teasing the community during the closed beta. Right before the site went offline, we were able to find a forum post by the developers, revealing very interesting information.
Today, February 20th 2009, exactly one year since the closed beta for Quake Live was launched, id software announces they will soon start the open beta fase of the Quake Live project. The exact date planned for the public release is 24th of February, which from today is in exactly 4 days. Open beta consequences
It’s been nearly 1,5 years since the Quake Live project was announced during the 2007 Quakecon event, and a lot has happened since that day.
The name Quake Zero changed to Quake Live due to a domain squatter, a closed beta was launched and a Quake Live tournament was held at Quakecon in 2008.
Today however it seems like Quake Live has reached a new milestone in it’s development.
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