This year’s Quake Con celebrated the 20th anniversary of id Software.  There was Quake and there was cake.  There was also a panel which featured Todd Hollenshead, Tim Willits, Kevin Cloud and John Carmack reminiscing about their lives and times at the legendary developer.

They also took some questions from the crowd.

One such question came from my very self, Dave Oshry, managing editorman of RipTen nerd asylum.

I asked, “What do you think of the console scum that are ruining hardcore gaming?!”

The crowd went wild.

Check out the whole awesome panel (Hosted by the magnificent Morgan Webb) and be sure to watch their response to my question at about 46 minutes in:

Stay tuned to RipTen for continued coverage of id Software and more of our wrap up from Quake Con.

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The classic PC games Heretic and Hexen have been given new freedom across the internet with their release under the GNU Public Licence.

The new release means you can freely download, modify and distribute the source code as you wish, leading to much wider implications of the legal use of the games. Up until now players have had to resort to either breaking the law, or re-coding the games from scratch to play them along side other open source games.

With help from a massive community effort spanning over a decade, as well as a few insiders helping out, not least John Romero, the games are now free to roam unrestricted.

To get your hands on the source code, head over to the SourceForge page.

Via: Doom World (pic wikipedia)

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