QuakeWorld Turns 17 and This Day in Gaming History [Dec 18, 2013, 12:15 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Stories from our archive. First are a couple from yesterday, as it was
December 17th 1996 that the
QuakeWorld client was released by id Software and it was
December 17th 1996
1998 that Epic Games (at the time Epic MegaGames) announced both Unreal
Tournament and Unreal II. On to December 18th, it was
15 years ago today that
Starsiege TRIBES went gold. Here are more stories of note:
Splinter Cell Demo
(2002),
International UT2004 Demo (2004),
Tiberium Announced
(2007), ABIT Closes (2008),
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam shipped (2010), and
RAGE: The
Scorchers shipped (2012). Update: Corrected the year on the Unreal
Tournament/Unreal II link.
Re: QuakeWorld Turns 17 and This Day in Gaming History
Dec 18, 2013, 15:50
Dec 18, 2013, 15:50
ViRGE wrote on Dec 18, 2013, 11:26:So true. 64 player games. Vehicles. Mobile infantry. Troop carriers. Destructable bases. Amazing mods (Renegades anyone?).
Ahh Tribes. It was ahead of its time and yet everything that follows only gets farther and farther from the purity of its vision.
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