Years ago I bought a copy of Quake Arena for my PC.  I think I spent $49 on it.  I played it for a while, and then moved on to another game. Just like I always do.  Today I saw an article at MacWorld that made me say “WHAAAAAAAT?!?!”  If you don’t want to read it, basically it said that I can now play that same game through a web browser for free.

It’s called Quake Live, and it kicks ass. I expected it to be slow and not look very good. I was wrong.  This FREE web based version plays fast and looks better than the original CD-ROM based version did.  Technology has come a long way over the years.

While I ate lunch at work today, I spent 20 minutes playing. Ya know, just to make sure it was good before I told you about it. I hope you appreciate my sacrifice.

Go play on your Mac or PC here.