To cut a long story short, I found out about this story mid-friday.

If you can't open the link for some reason, id software (the guys behind Quake) are releasing a free to play version of Quake Arena which you can play in your browser, along with a bit of software. The thoughts behind this are that simply the advertising will be enough to cover all the costs.


http://www.quakelive.com/

had a little play, works nicely so much fun to be had