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A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your IPhone

Matt Buchanan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:20:00 +0000

John Carmack says that not one, but three Quake games are coming to the iPhone—1, 2, and Arena—though his involvement will mostly be to “make sure certain specific things are done the way I want them to be.”

The Quake onslaught is in addition to a slew of other id games hitting iPhone: Wolfenstein RPG, Doom 2 RPG and Doom Classic. Interestingly, why he’ll be farming out most of the port work, Carmack says he’s personally interested in working on some of the stuff made possible by the iPhone 3GS’s more advanced hardware: “I certainly want to do this MegaTexture demo for the 3GS stuff, work on that myself.”

While there’s 40 million current-gen iPhone OS devices out there, I’m totally ready for developers to ditch them so we can see what’s really possible on the platform. [Shacknews]

Quake Running on Bug Labs’ BUG (About Time)

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:40:00 +0000

I guess this is it: Bug Labs’ BUG has graduated from weird modular little thingie with not much use for most to weird modular little thingie with not much use for most but plays Quake.

Yeah, it moves, it fires, it can be controlled with a guitar. [Community Bug Las]

Quake on Chumby Is the Cuddliest Slaughterfest Ever

Matt Buchanan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:15:00 +0000

Sure, people port games to totally inappropriate platforms all the time, but rarely do they entail the cognitive dissonance of a full port of Quake to the huggable Wi-Fi beanbag Chumby.

This black magic was concocted by a chumby developer who got the game running under SDL. Obviously, chumby doesn’t have a WASD key layout, so he chopped up the controls, with the accelerometer handling all the event, the bend switch acting as your trigger, and the touchscreen itself jumps and activates items.

The game is surprisingly playable too, with a pretty respectable frame rate for a bean bag. [bunnie's blog via MAKE]

Phone Gaming Just Got Upgraded: Quake 3 Arena Now Playable On Select S60 Handsets

Nick Broughall — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:30:48 +0000

Pretty much all anybody talks about when they talk about phone gaming these days is the iPhone. Sure, you might get the occasional reference to N-Gage, or Brickbreaker might get an update, but that’s about it, right? Wrong. As of today, if you’re the proud owner of a Nokia N95 8GB, N82 or E90 handset, you can now play Quake 3 Arena on your mobile, with full multiplayer.

Of course, playing a full-blown FPS with a phone’s awkward, packed keypad isn’t exactly appealing, so the ported game as full Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support. Just forget for a moment what playing a game with a full keyboard and mouse while watching your phone’s tiny screen would be like for a second and consider that this is actually a triumph for modern handsets. The fact that we can play a game that required top-of-the-line hardware a decade ago on our mobile phones is newsworthy just in itself.

If you own one of the three compatible phones and want to get your Quake 3 Arena action on, click the link below and follow the instructions. Just remember though – you’ll need to own a copy of the game for this to work.

[Symbian Freak via Decoder]

Quake on iPhone Comes to Cydia Installer

Jason Chen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:40:00 +0000

That Quake game for the iPhone we wrote about a few months back has made it onto Cydia, the jailbreak application repository. Just Another iPhone Blog says it’s not too slow and it doesn’t make use of the accelerometer (so it’s probably not the version we wrote about before), but it does play fairly well. Seeing as it’s not the one we wrote about before, we’re not sure if it’s even networked, but c’mon, Quake on iPhone! [Just Another iPhone Blog]