Check out these 10 new minutes of Brink's raw gameplay footage. For some reason it's reminding me of the good old Quake days

We break down our favourite retro games of all time.

This is, I suppose, the end of an era. id boss Todd Hollenshead has confirmed that the company won’t be out-sourcing its id Tech 5 engine to third party developers, quite a departure from their history of letting other developers use their engine. Some of gaming’s biggest games and franchises have been built off the back of id Tech engines. …

ID INTRODUCES TWO QUAKE LIVE SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES QUAKE LIVE ‘Premium‘ and ‘Pro‘ Packages Now Available August 9, 2010 (Sydney, Australia) – id Software LLC, a ZeniMax Media company, today announced that ‘Premium’ and ‘Pro’ subscriptions are available for QUAKE LIVEâ„¢. QUAKE LIVE, a free-to-play first person shooter that can be played in a web browser, now offers players the ability …

I haven’t heard of Nexuiz before but I received a PR in my inbox this morning heralding the arrival of the PC arena shooter Nexuiz on the PS3. Nexuiz has been built on the latest Quake engine and from what I can understand is very much styled after the old school Quake Arena gameplay with their special ingredient being mutators …

It has been announced that Doom developers Id Software have been bought by Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax. In the case that you have been living in a cave, you should know that Id Software was one of the most influential videogame development companies in the history of videogames. They were the first company to bring us the original first person …

It’s happened to all of us at some point, I’m sure – at least, to those of us who have been gaming for a significant amount of time. We buy the latest and greatest game containing some new features that have everyone foaming at the mouth, only to sit back and say, “Hey, that’s not so original, I remember doing …