QuakeCon 2010's first day is over and a long one it was. In what seems to be a theme year after year, the QuakeCon tournaments did not start at all today, fueled by an
electrical fire in the tournament area, and continued by
delay after
delay, which resulted in the decision to
call it a day to the dismay of unhappy and tired viewers.
Brackets for
Duel and
CTF have been released with some interesting match-ups ahead.
chance and
destrukt will meet each other in the second round after their
heated encounter at the IVGHOF last weekend which saw
destrukt forfeit to
chance in the end out of frustration. According to
DaHanG,
destrukt has already proclaimed this "to be over already."
proZaC has been practicing and is trying to make a real run at this year's event, but will have to face a tough
sparks in the first round, and a determined
stermy in the second. A
stermy who's still one of the very few to take out
rapha in a set of maps. On the other side of the bracket, unless
draven can continue to
impress and
LoSt-CaUzE can make a next to impossible comeback, we will most likely be seeing
Cypher versus
strenx and
Spart1e versus
Cooller quarterfinals.
Evil Geniuses might find some opposition in
compLexity on their way to the winner's bracket finals, but will probably arrive with relative ease.
Fnatic and
Deus want their shot at a rematch with
EG, but shouldn't look too far ahead as they're in for a tight game with
Loaded in the semifinals.
DaHanG says he isn't thrilled with Battleforged, and hopes a placebo will get him past
Rapha, if he makes it there.
John Carmack is still the most bad-ass programmer in the world and has managed to "do some fairly clever things" to get their new title
Rage working on the iPhone - at 60 fps! It
looks sick. Carmack also announced a little QuakeCon gift, as he has released the source codes for
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Singleplayer) /
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Multiplayer) /
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. The source codes hold no game data, so you must have the games to access assets from each.
Doom 4 will
not be shown at this year's QuakeCon, after id Software previously
promised last year that it would be. CEO
Todd Hollenshead commented that the company wanted to
put more work into it before it was revealed.
id Tech 5 will apparently be for
Bethesda titles only, with
Hollenshead stating "I think that [Epic] made a strategic choice to focus on the middleware service stuff, and we never pretended to be focused on technology licensing...Epic's made a good business out of that so kudos to them, but I wouldn't change the way we've done things."
Lastly, you can buy every current id Software and Bethesda game right now
through Steam $70. All of them. That's only slightly more than a year's subscription to Quake Live.
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