Eurogamer's QuakeCon 2007 coverage

Last weekend, thousands of people converged on Texas for the 12th annual QuakeCon event. Like a strange human farm, each one plugged themselves into a PC, then fired virtual weapons at each other in order to climb the treacherous tournament tower.

But proceedings this year held a much more immediate attraction for us. The first was John Carmack's promise to unveil id Software's new next-generation monster in his conference, alongside other announcements - a few not so minor themselves. And we also knew a polished-up version of Quake Wars would be playable, as would Turtle Rock and Valve's enormously appealing Left 4 Dead.

So, fearing the onrush of hard work, we shifted our load onto Tom's shoulders and shipped him off to the land of cars with horns on. What follows is his battered fingers thumping out an astonishing amount of content, a full list of which can be found below.

Keep you eyes on this page in the coming days because the rest of our coverage is expected soon.

Features

• Peace, Love and Rockets
  What it's like to go to QuakeCon.
• Rage preview
  Tim Willits on everything there is to know.
• QuakeCon 2007 Conference Report
  Rage, Wolf movie, Quake Zero, and two hours of John Carmack.
• id Tech 5 interview
  Steve Nix on the growth of id's next engine.
• Left 4 Dead interview
  Are we dead yet? Chet Faliszek helps us figure it out.

News

• id Software unveils Rage
  Shown on id Tech 5.
• id unveils Quake Zero
  Free, browser-based Q3A.
• Quake Zero not actually in web-browser
  Just launches from there.
• Quake Wars in Europe first
  PS3/360 builds later.
• Quake Wars dated
  Hollenshead says October.
• Quake Wars beta 2 launches
  20,000 more keys available.
• id doesn't worry about Epic - Nix
  Won't have to undercut UE3.
• id games added to Steam
  All of them. Now.
• id aware of Steam issues
  Fix expected "very quickly".
• id hits at Quake DS game
  Not announcing it, though.
• Carmack hopes for Wii game
  Orcs & Elves aspiration.
• Quake Arena coming to XBLA
  Doom did well then.
• Wolfenstein movie coming
  Roger Avary to direct.
• Left 4 Dead slips to 2008
  Now really call off Christmas.

Media

• QuakeCon 2007 photo gallery
• New Quake Wars screens
• Rage trailer