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The matches are held in some of the most meticulously rendered backdrops ever presented on a computer screen. I found it hard to play without gawking. The lighting! The mist! The way bullets whiz through water! It feels like you're reliving the first half-hour of Saving Private Ryan...
As fans of boxing discovered a century ago, games become more socially acceptable when they're confined to arenas and given rules. And the new, paintball-like feel may even improve Quake's reputation in the eyes of teachers, parents and legislators in the post-Columbine era. "We are sort...
Not that the id gang sees it that way. There's little time for pastimes at a company where you live most of your life in the office--20 hours a day, seven days a week on average during the late stages of Quake III's development, when almost the...
Then again, there are compensations aplenty. Four of these long-haired, T-shirted guys are millionaires; most own Ferraris (Carmack has too many for his garage), Porsche 911s or large houses built on the success of previous games. Take them to a tony restaurant, and they will casually debate the...
Then there are the intangible benefits of having, well, a more childlike outlook on life. During the final week of coding, veteran designer Graeme Devine noticed that nerves were fraying. So he went to the local Toys "R" Us and cleaned them out of Nerf guns--$280 worth of the...