Quake II Magazine Archive: 1995

"As long as the potential to play games exist, games will be played. Just as the most functional elastic band becomes ammunition in the occasional office skirmish, after hours office computers cease to run Excel and Doom is booted up. The relationship between leisure and business computing is tight. The current boom of state-of-the-art games development enjoyed by PC owners is a direct consequence of the PC's widespread penetration into the home as a business machine. Gaming follows on the coattails of more sober applications."

Quake II Magazine Archive: Off-Topic — Shaq Fu

"Delphine Software, known for such blockbusters as Out Of This World and Flashback, have been hard at work on EA's first fighting game: Shaq-Fu. Imagine flawless animation from the talented animators at Delphine mixed with one on one fighting, Shaq, and... aliens? Uh-huh, aliens. Our story begins with Shaq decides to do a little sightseeing in downtown Tokyo a few hours before an exhibition match. He meets an elderly Kung-fu master who informs him that he is destined... to bring back peace and order to the world."

America’s Elite: The leader, John Carmack — January 1998

"The toughest thing about John Carmack is picking which career highlight to call out — creating the 3D game genre, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake — any of these would suffice. A self-described 'technology idealist,' it's hard to engage him in conversation until you hit a hot spot — OpenGL versus D3D, for example. Through the success of the Quake licensing initiative, his work is actually more important to the industry now, with legions of 'next Carmacks' trying to equal his impact."

The First Online Pro Sport for the Computer Gaming Crowd: PGL Official News Updates, Seasons 1-3

The first online pro sport for the computer gaming crowd. Sponsored by AMD, hosted by Ten Entertainment Network, and driven by popular demand, the PGL will do for computer games what the NBA did for two peach baskets and a medicine ball. We're talking serious revolution. How serious? How about $250,000 in cash and prizes in the first year? How about "quit your day job and start honing your deathmatch skills" serious? Okay - now that we've got your attention, read on...