The Aftermath of QuakeCon

Dr. Eggman writes "This past week quite whispers and rumors became fact as two FPS giants, id and Valve joined forces to bring id games back catalog to Valve's Steam. This marks a huge influx of old classics as well as opening up the possibility of bringing some of the newest, most anticipated id games to Steam. That wasn't the only news, of course. There were many announcements by the FPS veteran: Quake Wars is slated for October 2nd release. Quake 3 is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Their next big game is called Rage , and will feature the id Tech 5 platform technology. All the details can be found in Eurogamer's full convention report. Probably the most interesting news from id was the revelation that they're working on a web-browser based version of Quake 3 . It's going to be completely free, supported by ad revenues."

Re:Just what we wanted!

[Excors]

I've experimented with a simple FPS engine [lazyilluminati.com] using the HTML5 <canvas> element (which provides a 2D graphics API for JavaScript). It's not exactly Quake (it's much more like Duke Nukem 3D minus the gameplay), but it works in most browsers and it's not too terribly slow. It can even do multiplayer AJAX deathmatch, though that's not available online right now...

I expect id would do something more sane, though.

Games on Steam...

[micpp]

From what I've heard the various DOS games that id has put on steam seem to use the DOS emulator DOSbox to work. DOSbox is GPL but it seems id has neglected any idea of following this license agreement. Do you think this could cause some problems?