By Darren Allan
Following on the hellishly-hot heels of the Doom reboot, there are potentially plans to resurrect the original Quake.
ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda and id Software, has posted a number of job listings which point to the fact that a reimagining of Quake could possibly be on the cards.
Techspot noticed the advertised positions for id Software in Frankfurt and Dallas which are searching for folks to “work as part of a development team on legendary id game properties like DOOM and QUAKE, developing custom tools and technology for the game industry’s most advanced engine technology”.
The positions include a lead gameplay programmer, art supervisor, senior lighting artist, senior physics programmer, and a senior tools programmer.
Of course, this is hardly definitive evidence of a Quake reboot, but given the positive reception the new Doom game has received (multiplayer aside), it has to be a possibility.
There hasn’t been a Quake game for some time now: Quake 4 was released way back in 2005 (developed by Raven software), then Enemy Territory: Quake Wars – a prequel to Quake 2 developed by Splash Damage – followed two years later, but we’ve seen nothing since then.
History repeating?
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming