Quake 3: Arena coming to browsers, supported by ads, solid fuel rocket engines

has some news from Qu🧸akeCon that is equal parts awesome, confusing and quite possibly the greates🍌t idea id has ever had. To quote N-G:

id said at Friday’s Quakecon in D🍎allas that producer Marty Stratton will be leading the new development team on devel🍬opment of the new title.

Quake Zero will be a zero-cost version Quake III Arena that’s fully pꦫlayable through your web browser and supported only b👍y ad dollars.

Radical idea, right? Even John Carmack had to admit that the plan “may work, it may not”, but if anyone can make ad-supported, in-browser gaming viable, it’s id with a proven, beloved property like Quake 3: Arena.

Details such as browser compatibility, hardware requirements and release dates all ༒seem to be ethereal for the moment, but as soon as John returns from launching a gila monster into orbit around Saturn he has promised to get back to us.