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QuakeCon

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QuakeCon is a yearly convention held by ZeniMax Media to celebrate and promote the major franchises of id Software and other studios owned by ZeniMax. [1]

88 relations: Activision, Adam's Mark, Advanced Micro Devices, Ageia, Alienware, Apple Inc., Aspyr, Asus, AT&T, ATI Technologies, Av3k, Back to the Future, Best Western, Books of Kings, Britney Spears, Chris Vrenna, Crossroads (2002 film), Cyberathlete Professional League, Cypher (Quake player), D-Link, Dallas, Doom (1993 video game), Doom (film), Doom 3, EFnet, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Evil Geniuses, Fifty Shades of Grey (film), Fnatic, Footloose (1984 film), Gamer, Garland, Texas, Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas, Hilton Anatole, Holiday Inn, Id Software, Infomart, Intel, Internet Relay Chat, John Carmack, Johnathan Wendel, Jurassic Park (film), Katherine Anna Kang, La Quinta Inns & Suites, Labyrinth (film), LAN party, Linksys, Logitech, Lucent, ..., Marty Stratton, Mesquite, Texas, Mousesports, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Newegg, Nine Inch Nails, Nvidia, Oculus Rift, Ontario, Palo Alto Networks, Paramount Network, PC game, Plano, Texas, Quake (video game), Quake 4, Quake Live, Rage (video game), Rapha (video gamer), Red Dawn, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Sander Kaasjager, Snakes on a Plane, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Team Dignitas, Texas, The Lord of the Rings (film series), The Matrix, The Terminator, Top Gun, Tweaker (band), Twilight (2008 film), United States, Ventrilo, Video game, Woodstock, ZeniMax Media, Ziff Davis. Expand index (38 more) »

Activision

Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher.

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Adam's Mark

Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts was a chain of upscale hotels in the United States.

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Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

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Ageia

Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company.

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Alienware

Alienware is an American computer hardware subsidiary of Dell.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Aspyr

Aspyr Media, Inc., doing business as Aspyr, is an American video game developer and publisher based in Austin, Texas.

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Asus

AsusTek Computer Inc. (stylised as ASUSTeK or ΛSUS) is a Taiwanese multinational computer and phone hardware and electronics company headquartered in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.

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AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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ATI Technologies

ATI Technologies Inc. (commonly called ATI) was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets.

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Av3k

Maciej Krzykowski (born April 1, 1991), who goes by the pseudonym Av3k, is a professional Quake and ShootMania player.

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale.

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Best Western

Best Western International, Inc., operator of the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, operates over 4,100 hotels and motels worldwide.

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Books of Kings

The two Books of Kings, originally a single book, are the eleventh and twelfth books of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.

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Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, dancer, and actress.

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Chris Vrenna

Chris A. Vrenna (born February 23, 1967) is an American musician, Grammy-winning producer, engineer, remixer, songwriter, programmer, and founder of the electronic band Tweaker.

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Crossroads (2002 film)

Crossroads is a 2002 American comedy-drama road film set in Georgia.

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Cyberathlete Professional League

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) is a professional sports tournament organization specializing in computer and console video game competitions.

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Cypher (Quake player)

Alexey Yanushevsky (Алексе́й Анато́льевич Януше́вский) (born May 17, 1990), who also goes by the pseudonym "Cypher", resides in Minsk, and is a Belarusian professional player of the first person shooter series Quake.

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D-Link

D-Link Corporation is a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment manufacturing corporation headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom (typeset as DOOM in official documents and stylized as DooM in other media) is a 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software.

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Doom (film)

Doom is a 2005 American science fiction action horror film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and written by David Callaham and Wesley Strick, loosely based on the video game series of the same name created by id Software.

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Doom 3

Doom 3 (stylized as DOOM3) is a survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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EFnet

EFnet or Eris-Free network is a major Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, with more than 35,000 users.

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Evil Geniuses

Evil Geniuses (EG) is an eSports organization based in San Francisco.

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Fifty Shades of Grey (film)

Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2015 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, with a screenplay by Kelly Marcel.

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Fnatic

Fnatic (pronounced "fanatic"; also stylized as fnatic or FNATIC) is a professional eSports organization headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Footloose (1984 film)

Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross.

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Gamer

A gamer is a person who plays interactive games, either video games, skill-based card games and plays for usually long periods of time.

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Garland, Texas

Garland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center

Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center is a hotel and convention center, opened in Grapevine, Texas minutes from Dallas - Fort Worth, on April 4, 2004.

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Grapevine, Texas

Grapevine is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, predominantly in Tarrant County and has areas that extend into Dallas and Denton counties.

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Hilton Anatole

The Hilton Anatole is a Dallas hotel at 2201 Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center district just north of downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a British-owned American brand of hotels, and a subsidiary of InterContinental Hotels Group.

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Id Software

id Software LLC (see Company name) is an American video game developer headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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Infomart

The Infomart is one of the largest buildings in Dallas, Texas (USA).

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Intel

Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.

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Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text.

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John Carmack

John D. Carmack (born August 20, 1970) is an American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman.

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Johnathan Wendel

Johnathan Wendel (born February 26, 1981), also known by the gamertag Fatal1ty (pronounced "fatality"), is a former professional esports player of the first-person shooter titles Quake and Painkiller and entrepreneur.

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Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.

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Katherine Anna Kang

Katherine Anna Kang (born December 15, 1970) is an American businesswoman and film producer.

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La Quinta Inns & Suites

La Quinta Inns & Suites (Spanish: La Quinta, "the Villa", pronounced 'la KEEN-ta) is a chain of limited service hotels in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Honduras.

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Labyrinth (film)

Labyrinth is a 1986 musical fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, executive-produced by George Lucas, and based upon conceptual designs by Brian Froud.

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LAN party

A LAN party is a gathering of people with computers or compatible game consoles, where a local area network (LAN) connection is established between the devices using a router or switch, primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer video games together.

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Linksys

Linksys is an American company selling data networking hardware products mainly to home users and small businesses.

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Logitech

Logitech International S.A. (commonly referred to as Logitech or Logi; stylized as logitech, previously LOGITECH) is a Swiss provider of personal computer and mobile accessories, with its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and administrative headquarters in Newark, California.

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Lucent

Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Marty Stratton

Marty Stratton is an executive producer for id Software.

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Mesquite, Texas

The city of Mesquite is a suburb located east of Dallas, Texas.

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Mousesports

Mousesports (abbreviated as mouz) is a professional eSports organization based in Germany.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Alternaversal Productions, LLC.

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Newegg

Newegg Inc. is an online retailer of items including computer hardware and consumer electronics.

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Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation (most commonly referred to as Nvidia, stylized as NVIDIA, or (due to their logo) nVIDIA) is an American technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California.

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Oculus Rift

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, a division of Facebook Inc., released on March 28, 2016.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

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Paramount Network

Paramount Network is an American general entertainment cable and satellite channel owned by the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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PC game

PC games, also known as computer games or personal computer games, are video games played on a personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine.

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Plano, Texas

Plano is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located approximately twenty miles north of downtown Dallas.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive in 1996.

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Quake 4

Quake 4 is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game, the fourth title in the ''Quake'' series.

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Quake Live

Quake Live is a first-person shooter video game by id Software.

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Rage (video game)

Rage (stylized as RAGE) is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software, released in November 2010 for iOS and later October 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360.

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Rapha (video gamer)

Shane Hendrixson (born March 16, 1989 in Rockford, Illinois), also known by his pseudonym rapha, is an American professional esports Quake Live, Quake III Arena, ShootMania, Overwatch, and Quake Champions player for Team Liquid.

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Red Dawn

Red Dawn is a 1984 American war film directed by John Milius, filmed in Metrocolor and Panavision, and co-written by Milius and Kevin Reynolds.

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Regional Municipality of Waterloo

The Regional Municipality of Waterloo is a regional municipality located in Southern Ontario, Canada.

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh.

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Sander Kaasjager

Sander Kaasjager, who plays under the pseudonym Vo0 (pronunciation), is a Dutch professional player of the first person shooter games Painkiller, Quake II, Quake III, Quake 4, Quake Live and Quake Champions, and also World of Warcraft.

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Snakes on a Plane

Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and based on the 1960s television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Team Dignitas

Team Dignitas is an International Esports team, founded by Michael "ODEE" O'Dell on 9 September 2003 when Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix merged.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Lord of the Rings (film series)

The Lord of the Rings is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson.

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The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis (credited as The Wachowski Brothers) and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.

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The Terminator

The Terminator is a 1984 American science-fiction action film directed by James Cameron.

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Top Gun

Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with Paramount Pictures.

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Tweaker (band)

Tweaker is an American alternative rock collaboration founded by Chris Vrenna in the late 1990s.

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Twilight (2008 film)

Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer's novel of the same name.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Ventrilo

Ventrilo (or Vent for short) is a proprietary VoIP software that includes text chat.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.

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ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis, LLC is an American publisher and Internet company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeCon

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