Technology
Quake Live runs an updated version of the id Tech 3 engine, granting a few graphical improvements like bloom. In addition to usability changes, Quake Live has a new, more streamlined HUD. The game is also censored to remove blood, gore, and satanic references that were found in Quake III Arena and is the only game in the series that was developed by id Software internally to be rated T by the ESRB.
Quake Live registration of a user account is available on the Quake Live website and free to anyone wishing to play. Currently supported platforms include Internet Explorer 7+, Mozilla Firefox 2+, Safari 3+, and Google Chrome web browsers running on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.4+ (Intel processor only), and Linux. During the registration process the game and required browser plug-in is automatically downloaded. Updates to the game are continually released and automatically installed as the user logs in. In addition to browser support, there is an unofficial 3rd party dedicated game client QLPrism, which utilizes Mozilla Prism.
The browser plug-in does not make use of Flash to play the game. The software is a modified version of Quake III Gold executed as native compiled code on the user's computer.
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