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Next-gen Quake Arena game shelved

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Eurogamer writes: "Id Software is no longer planning to create a new, next-generation Quake Arena game after the launch of Quake Live.

"We did decide for a lot of reasons that we wanted to just push hard for doing Doom internally," technical director and co-founder John Carmack told the audience at QuakeCon 2008 this week.

"The door's not completely shut for another Quake project, and I would say that probably the success of Quake Live will determine whether we do another Quake project," he said."
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Fishy Fingers - 524 days 22 hours ago
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Booooo! Quake Arena is one of my all time favs, Id love a completely new vamped up edition to the classic series.

Ah well, looking forward to seeing some Doom info.
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Jenzo - 524 days 18 hours ago
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Good.
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Viktor E - 524 days 18 hours ago
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3 - damn I would love a new Quake
I hope they aren't shelving it due to Technical/Compression reasons of any sort.
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