I was thinking about this while I was working out this morning and Quake Live is probably the most important game released for the PC in 2009 ...
I know there are probably people out there who are wondering what I am thinking, after all there are going to be huge games like Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 released this year, but I'm not sure those people realise what Quake Live represents. Up until the release of Quake Live this week, the vast majority of free web-based games have been simple arcade games that have been played (primarily) by non-gamers ... Quake Live represents a dramatic shift being that processing power and network connections can now support very complex games and that these games can (potentially) be profitable based on the ad-revenue of a popular website.
