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Five maps are headed to the free-to-play Quake Live in a new content update, out today.

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Bethesda has announced the tournament line-up for QuakeCon 2012.

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Bethesda’s announced a update for Pro and Premium subscribers to QUAKE LIVE, id Software’s browser-based free-to-play FPS, with the addition of the Premium Pak 12.

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Somewhere in the world, somebody had the free time and the inclination to play Quake Live, and they were seriously disappointed. Rejoice, free-to-fraggers: your world is restored.

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Id’s announced yet another premium map pack for its browser-based Quake game, QuakeLive.

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Freemium Quake III browser remake QuakeLive got four new maps today, but only to those that pay.

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id has announced that starting today, anyone who signs up for Quake Live can get the Premium subscription membership benefits for free until September 26.

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id Software has announced Quake Live has finished Beta and Premium and Pro subscriptions will be made available later today.

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id Software has updated Quake Live this week and like most patches, contains some changes and bug fixes, but it also added some new features.

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Quake Live, id’s free browser-based version of Quake III Arena, is one year old today and id is handing out a special award for those who play.

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id’s Marty Stratton has said that Quake Live will receive a fairly large update next Tuesday, July 14.

Information regarding the content yet to be revealed, but updates to the game will happen on Tuesdays from here on out, but not every Tuesday.

Updates will take around 3-4 hours, and bring down the servers, and these will take place in the mornings, US Central Time.

ClanBase has loads more information for you, so you may wanna pay the site a visit.

id Software has released the sixth and last map for Quake Live’s six-week long campaign.

“Quarantine” has a new area with three zones that “surround and are connected in multiple ways to an area of higher ground at the center of the map” and allows up to 10 players.

It was designed for Clan Arena, Team Deathmatch, Duel and Free for All.

ClanBase has more on this, including a preview of all six maps.

id Software released Hidden Fortress this week, the first of six maps for Quake Live, and next on the list is Siberia.

Scheduled to land May 26, this is map two with four more to come in as many weeks.

Siberia is a capture the flag event designed for between 6 to 12 players and like the name suggests, it’s rather snowy.

More information is available through the link.

Via BigDownload.

id Software has launched its “6 new maps in 6 weeks” campaign, meaning we get a new Quake Live map every Monday for the next six weeks, Eurogamer reports.

DreamCast classic Hidden Fortress is up fist and will be followed by what the company promises will be both new and classic maps for the rather superb multiplayer shooter.

Download it. It’s free.

id’s Marty Stratton’s detailed a sizeable content update for free-to-play shooter Quake Live, saying new maps and modes are on the way this month.

You’re going to get:

• A Practice section
• New maps
• Use of private matches and servers
• Tweaked skill-matching

And plenty more. Get it all through the link. Thanks, BigDownload.

id boss John Carmack’s told Gamasutra that Quake Like – which hit open beta today – is partly about showing what the PC can do as a platform.

“A lot of this project was about doing something that the PC was going to be better at than the consoles,” he said.

“Our modern triple-A stuff has to be somewhat more console-centric, with the PC as a peer, while this is an opportunity to do something where the PC will really stand alone.”

So up yours, consoles. Not only will you not have anything to do with Quake Live’s free-to-play action, but id’s going to support Mac and Linux with the game, in the name of God.

Carmack told Joystiq today that “it’s pretty high on my priority list to have the Mac and Linux support.”

John Carmack spits on you, PS360. He spits in your face.

Over 113,000 people have signed up for Quake Live since the free-to-play shooter went into open beta this morning, as seen on the game’s twitter.

Around 10,000 users are constantly in line to register for the game.

The latest incarnation of id’s classic FPS looks as though it may well “work”.

Good luck if you’re trying to get involved.

The Quake Live beta is now open, meaning anyone can play completely gratis. Hit this to get involved.

The free-to-play shooter includes 40 arenas, five play modes and tons of other stuff. It’d be very rude to not give it a go.

So do.

According to CVG, id’s John Carmack is mulling over a Quake Live premium service.

Quake Live has always previously been discussed as free to play.

His comments will appear in the next issue of PC Zone and read thus:

In the beginning Quake Live will be completely ad-supported, it’s not out of the question that eventually we’ll have some kind of a premium service. But we don’t know what it’s going to be yet, and we’re certainly going out with the completely free-to-play model. As the community grows and we start seeing what people actually want to get out of it we may offer some other things there.

So completely free with paid for content. Right.

More through the link.

By Mike Bowden

According to this Shacknews piece, id revealed at QuakeCon today that the firm was forced to change the name of upcoming free-to-play shooter Quake Live from the original Quake Zero because of a domain squatter.

Apparently the company announced the game without registering the domain. Sensible.

“This was an idea we had mere weeks before QuakeCon [2007],” said Carmack, emphasizing the speedy nature of the game’s confirmation.

An enterprising individual captialised on id’s lack of plan, but Carmack was having none of it.

“They offered us a considered buyout option for it,” he said. “We just decided heck, we’re only a few months into development of this, we’ll just change the name.”