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Id Software's John Carmack, one of the worlds most celebrated game makers, projects that Quake Live will have "hundreds of thousands of players, if not millions."
Initially called Quake Zero, Quake Live will be a successor to Quake 3 that has the potential to bring deathmatch out of the basement and into the mainstream.

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QUAKE 3 JUST refuses to die. The game was released back in December of 1999 and, with the release of complete source code under the GPL (General Public Licence) in August of 2005, the mod community went berserk.
Now, as a result of this move, two totally free games have been released in the past couple of hours - UrbanTerror and World of Padman.
All of this was possible thanks to improvements to the engine which were brought about by the ioquake3 project. The number of improvements is mind boggling. The authors added OpenAL for sound instead of the original 96-track, stereo spatialised two-channel output. Support for OpenAL also brought surround sound, to make things more incredible. The game engine now also supports Ogg Vorbis format and video capture of demos in .avi format.

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