Popular FPS Quake Live Finally Available For Mac Users

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ID Software’s browser-based shooter Quake Live is finally available for Mac users — mostly.

An update to the game’s servers means the game can be played on Safari on the Mac, but not Firefox.

“This update is Safari only, but we’ve pushed a ticket with the folks at Mozilla and hope to have the Firefox build fixed very shortly,” ID says.

Based on the popular Quake 3 Arena, Quake Live is a free, browser-based shoot-em-up. It features more than 40 arenas and five game modes, including duel, capture the flag and group deathmatch. Players can frag each other or computer-controlled bots, and can be matched according to skill level. The game requires a plugin to play. It is not Flash based.

The game went online earlier this year, but Windows only. It’s been wildly popular: more than 113,000 player accounts were created in the first six hours.

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  • TG

    FINALLY!! period :-)

  • grahf

    Imagine my surprise to find that it only works on Intel Macs. Whatever happened to backwards compatibility? Quake 3 ran great on old macs.