Good news to Quake fans everywhere the Quake Live will be open to the public for beta testing on the 24th February. The servers are going to be down while they remove inactive accounts.
Quake Live is a modified version of Quake 3 and will be a free ad supported web based game. If this proves successful we may see more titles taking this route, if I am not mistaken The Witcher developers are trying the same for their flagship title The Witcher.
Keep checking the dev teams website for more details.
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