Hello and hello, and welcome to something new and hopefully regular that we at hecklerspray towers have been itching to put together - something about video games! Yay! Sure, there may be millions of other sites, blogs and tweetpiles (or whatever the kids call them) littering the intrasphere, but th...

Veel bibliotheken weten nog steeds niet goed wat ze aanmoeten met videogames en/of gratis internet. Sla de archieven van ZB Digitaal en andere biblioblogs er maar op na. Voor collega's die worstelen met gamedilemma's is het wellicht aardig om te weten dat de American Library Association deze week ee...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, OS, Software, Odds and ends, Freeware, Apple Our good friends at Joystiq recently spoke to id games' John Carmack (the man behind games like Quake and Doom, and fervent supporter of Mac gaming), and heard that id's new product, Quake Live, is headed to our OS...

Auf diesen Zeitpunkt haben viele Ego-Shooter-Fans seit Monaten gewartet. Seit heute Nacht dürfen sie Quake Live ausgiebig und kostenlos testen - und mit ihren martialischen Waffen wieder nach Herzenslust durch die Gegend ballern. Die Entwickler der texanischen Spieleschmiede id Software, bekann...

Alright, enough. Stop. You can lay off the F5 button and cease your (frankly) childish refreshing of www.quakelive.com. The public beta of Quake Live - promised to be available today - is finally live and, unless you live somewhere not in the vicinity of Dallas-based id's timezone, it's still today ...

If you’re a Quake nerd, then there’s a good chance you’re smacking your lips in anticipation of August—the month when QuakeCon is held. For the uninitiated, QuakeCon is a bring-your-own-computer LAN party held in Dallas, Texas. It’s named after id Software’s Quake FPS. So what’s going ...

Filed under: PC, GDC It's been a while since we've heard anything about Quake Zero , id Software's free-to-play variation of Quake 3. For starters, it's not going by that old name anymore. From now on, you can call it Quake Live. Secondly, gone are any doubts about the financial efficacy of their bu...