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Are You Playing Quake Live?

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It’s been up for a couple of days now–well, maybe a day. I don’t know how Id pulled it off, but I signed up and was playing in less than five minutes. Some interesting things:

  • You can play in a browser window or fullscreen
  • There’s a ten minute skill test with a bot that seems to work really well. In my first match I played average (which is good for me in Quake).
  • There’s a friend system (I’m agentgray).
  • Leaderboards, rankings, full stats (which didn’t seem to update for me right away), etc.
  • It streams the game data in the background while you play.
  • There was no slowdown. It almost seemed too fast.
  • It even worked on my low-end laptop.
  • Seeing ads by Dell in the maps actually worked. The placement of some were good for laughs.
  • I would almost consider this casual Quake or they’ve found a way to make Quake casual.

Quake Live.

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