QuakeCon 2012 dates announced

By Fred Dutton Published 24 January, 2012

Will Doom 4 get its first public airing?

This year's QuakeCon - the annual id Software clambake - takes place in Dallas, Texas 2nd to 5th August, Bethesda has announced.

Getting out there might not be too cheap, but if you do make it entry to the event itself is free of charge. See the official QuakeCon site for more details of how to get in.

As usual, the event will take over the Hilton Anatole Hotel and host North America's largest LAN party, though specific details on exactly what else will be on show have not yet been announced.

With Rage finally out the door, id Software boss John Carmack recently confirmed that the studio can now concentrate solely on the long-awaited Doom 4. Will we be getting our first glimpse of the game during this year's QuakeCon?

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Comments (9) Latest comment 4 weeks ago

  • Hellion83 #1 4 weeks ago

    Post deleted at 20:12:17 01-02-2012

  • LHH #2 4 weeks ago

    Hope it looks good. I was quite hyped for Rage but it was decidedly average and with idtech5 only being used on Bethesda published games I guess we won't really see its potential until Doom 4

  • Architect_z #3 4 weeks ago

    Can you play as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in Doom 4?

  • PcPlasticfuzz #4 4 weeks ago

    I'm currently playing RAGE now, I'm enjoying it to be honest, a bit of a break from the norm. Under-rated in my eyes.

  • darkmorgado #5 4 weeks ago

    Rage was excellent. In my experience, most of the people I know who were disappointed by it were expecting it to be more like Borderlands rather than a fairly straightforward id shooter.

  • abigsmurf #6 4 weeks ago

    Carmack's been making noises about the Doom 4 engine recently. Can't remember the details but he was talking about a new method of loading textures supported by the new ATI cards that should eliminate the worst texture pop-in problems.

    Will be interesting to see where they go with Doom 4. Thought 3 was pretty unfairly criticised (the flashlight thing was a pretty novel gameplay device in my book) and a few of its innovations ignored; it was the first game with interactive computer screens and control panels (before then it was 'press the giant red button' or 'pull the big lever').

  • TheGuvernor #7 4 weeks ago

    RAGE was the most under rated game of 2011.
    Great game w/ incredible tech.
    Hope the roll out some DLC & a DM mode asap!

  • DrStrangelove #8 4 weeks ago

    @LHH

    The greatest graphical achievement of Rage wasn't to make stunning images (although it did a nice job there, at least outdoors), but how it managed to deliver rock-solid ultra-smooth 60fps in practically any situation. That is quite impressive and I think idtech5 remains a force to be reckoned with in the future, and I too are curious what it'll be able to do with 30fps.

    But it's really a bad move by Bethesda to restrain it from licensing, even more so as id apparently developed it to be particularly dev-friendly, probably with a lot of licensing in mind.

    That said, I'd love to see a Carmack-driven Elder Scrolls game. That would (and will?) be kickarse.

  • LHH #9 4 weeks ago

    @DrStrangelove Yeah technically it was impressive, I just wanted more than 10 hours lol

    And my personal hope was for something like a new Fallout using the engine. Definitely a shame that they can't license it out though