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id Software’s browser-based derivative of Quake III: Arena, Quake Live, recently celebrated it’s first year anniversary with the addition of a new map, Fallout Bunker, and a retrospective article:

The number of people that registered when the QUAKE LIVE Beta opened far exceeded our wildest expectations. Over a quarter million players created accounts right after its launch and that was through word of mouth only! Since that time, players have spent over 8.9 million hours in over 60 million ranked matches, earning an impressive 8 million awards and 810 million frags.

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In our effort to provide continued support for QUAKE LIVE we have made many changes and additions to the game over the course of the past year. Since launch we’ve introduced ‘Duel Detective’, coupled with improved matchmaking features that allows players to locate other players with similar skills. We have also extended our platform support to include Mac OS X and Linux users.

We’ve also launched pro Team DeathMatch and Instagib CTF servers, made extensive hit registration improvements and added Shoutcasting features and competition settings.

id has also announced that QuakeCon 2010 will be taking place August 12-15 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, TX.

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