If you ve been perusing our website lately, you ve likely noticed all the coverage of our 25th-anniversary celebration. What you may not know is that Shacknews isn t the only old dog with a silver anniversary in 2021. id Software s Quake made its debut on June 22, 1996 (that would be 25 years ago this week!). Quake was a technical marvel for its time, ushering in the mainstream adoption of multiplayer deathmatch and 3D accelerators. It would spawn several massively successful sequels and serve as the basis for one of the dopest annual BYOC LAN parties of all time.
For this week s edition of Shack Chat, we asked our staff about their preferred weapons in the Quake franchise. Spoilers: No one picked the axe?!?
Learning the ins and outs of their most advanced game engine yet, id Software s developers follow their muses to create Quake s four distinct episodes.