QuakeCon 07
My 'hero', John Carmack, and co. came up the kind of announcements that far outweighed the ones by Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, combined, in the recent E3 expo, as gamesindustry.biz rightfully points out. A new game technology, a new game IP, Valve distribution deals, free, web-based, Quake III arena, xbox360 Quake, this, that and the kitchen sink. Epic Game's Unreal Engine 3 may be amazing, Crysis may look breath-taking and the recent demos of Metal Gear Solid and Killzone for the PS3 may look out of this world, but the pizza and coke powered wizard (that's JC, and, yes, its too dramatic of a metaphor ) is not to be taken lightly.
I have been scouring the Net today for videos of J.C's keynote. Alas, nowhere to be found yet. I must have watched last year's QuakeCon's keynote over 64 times. Its fundamentally cool listening to JC discussing technology, gaming and see the genius radiating out of him as he sometimes branches out to 'hard core' development issues (memory access time? procedurally generated data? .. ).
George Moschovitis 5/8/2007 12:41
It seems that John has somehow lost his magic touch. The Rage video does NOT look as impressive as the Unreal/Crysis stuff. His ill fated adventures with Armadillo (aero/space stuff) was too distracting it seems. But still I can't wait to watch the video.