Quake turns 30: the FPS that invented everything in 1996

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0300

22 June 1996. It was almost midnight when John Romero uploaded a file to id Software's FTP server and told the world: Quake was available for download. Everyone else in the office had gone home exhausted after months of brutal development. Thirty years later, it's almost impossible to name an element of modern gaming — controls, multiplayer, esports, soundtrack — that doesn't run through the DNA of that quiet upload.

Wolfenstein 3D: 34 years of the game that created the modern FPS

Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300

There's a memory that won't leave my head. It was 1993 or 1994, on a 486 sitting in a relative's office, and a mate loaded up a floppy disk that had been passed from hand to hand like contraband. The game on it looked like nothing I had ever seen. A first-person perspective, corridors lit by vanishing points, German guards who screamed and dropped. You weren't playing as a character. You were the character. It was Wolfenstein 3D. And it has just turned 34.

John Carmack on Locodigital

Quake turns 30: the FPS that invented everything in 1996

Wolfenstein 3D: 34 years of the game that created the modern FPS