Quake Live tournaments at QuakeCon

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 July, 2008

Duels and capture-the-flag.

Id Software has announced that it will be hosting Quake Live tournaments during QuakeCon at the end of the month.

Quake Live is a "free and easily accessible browser-based experience" based on Quake 3 Arena and was announced at QuakeCon last summer.

It's already set for some fragging though and Intel has put up USD 25,000 in prize money across a one-on-one and a capture-the-flag tournament - so we can assume those modes are built into Quake Live at least. We want Rocket Arena too!

Meanwhile, there's an Alienware Quick-Draw Challenge with USD 10,000 for randomly-selected attendees who triumph in Quake Live competitions throughout the event.

QuakeCon will also host Enemy Territory: Quake wars tournaments on PC and Xbox 360 with another USD 25,000 up for grabs across those two events.

Not content with all those goodies, the other day id announced that it would be giving away a 2008 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe to the person who wins a special limited-entry raffle for tournament winners and other special people.

Sadly we'll not be eligible though as only US and District of Columbia residents can drive away with the prize.

We will be at QuakeCon, though, so expect our impressions of Quake Live and any other games on show, and hopefully live coverage of announcements and John Carmack's annual Q&A.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • muscleblade #1 4 years ago

    Wonder if Quake Live will be free on Xbla too. I doubth it.

  • Katsumoto #2 4 years ago

    Considering it will work on an ancient PC bought within the last, say, decade, i'm sure you'll find some way to be able to play it. Don't worry!

  • LazyDan #3 4 years ago

    I want to play this >:(

    Free browser based Quake 3 sounds amazing, I can't believe how underrepresented it's been running up to its release. I bet this'll be insanely popular and completely overshadow Quake Wars.

  • Brogan #4 4 years ago

    Is it still browser based? Thought i'd heard it was going to be anymore. Want to play it at work.
    Edited by 1 at 10/07/08 @ 11:46

  • consignia #5 4 years ago

    It was my understanding that it was never going to be browser based, and the browser is just management system, for organizing games, etc., and the actual game was run as a native executable. It that correct, because I've seen many people comment on it to the contary.

  • hahayou #6 4 years ago

    Yeah, it's ultimately based on an executable, you couldn't run Q3 in a browser. They might make it look like it's running in-browser though.

    Wonder if they'll let the rest of the world play it during quakecon? Although, I still have Q3 installed, so I'm not really missing out if not...