QuakeZero announced

I think someone at id noticed how cool my domain name was. QuakeZero will be the official name of the next Quake Arena and it will be free!

We don’t want to create a game just for the hardcore players as it’s not broad enough of an audience, and we want to bring new players in, that’s why we’re doing QuakeZero and releasing it for free.

id Software claimed to have a goal of making the most balanced multi-player game possible, thats cool. They also want to make it accessible graphics wise so I wouldn’t expect any jumps in rendering technology. Its taken game developers awhile to figure out that only single player games can exclude people but multi-player games are all about the number of people that can play. More players means lower system requirements. Something I dont like is the jump to completive gaming means a tamer game so that it can be shown on TV. Luckily it sounds like it will be a feature that you can disable.

Read the interview with Marty Stratton.