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Quake turns 30, and it just got two surprise expansions in one week

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Why it matters: Quake turned 30 this year, and QuakeCon, the LAN party that grew up alongside it, reached the same milestone. Normally, anniversaries like these bring little more than a storefront sale and a nostalgic look back. But over the past day, Quake fans got much more than that. Two separate troves of new Quake content surfaced: one released by id Software itself – a welcome surprise. The other was even more unexpected, arriving through a far stranger route involving a secondhand computer.

During QuakeCon's opening ceremony, id Software and MachineGames released Dawn of the Machine, a free expansion for the original 1996 Quake. MachineGames, the Swedish studio behind the modern Wolfenstein games and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, has previously developed two Quake episodes.

Dawn of the Machine features 19...

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