{"id":723187,"date":"2025-11-18T21:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/there-was-a-quake-tease-hiding-in-full-sight-in-the-developer-direct-showcase?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:19:44","slug":"there-was-a-quake-tease-hiding-in-full-sight-in-the-developer-direct-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/there-was-a-quake-tease-hiding-in-full-sight-in-the-developer-direct-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"There was a Quake tease hiding in full sight in the Developer Direct showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/there-was-a-quake-tease-hiding-in-full-sight-in-the-developer-direct-showcase.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Fans think they&#8217;ve spotted a reference to a new Quake game hiding in plain sight in Microsoft&#8217;s latest Developer Direct presentation.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by ResetEra&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/hey-uh%E2%80%A6-did-none-of-y%E2%80%99all-notice-the-quake-tease-in-the-developer_direct.807246\/\">JigglesBunny<\/a> &ndash; in a segment about puzzles in the newly-announced Indiana Jones and the Great Circle game &ndash; players think they can just make out the Quake symbol and a little text: &#8220;AKE 6&#8221; written in the foreground on a whiteboard.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not concrete proof &ndash; for one thing, it&#8217;s hard to imagine there&#8217;ll be a Quake 6 before a Quake 5 &ndash; whilst the letters themselves could be coincidental, it&#8217;s unlucky that the logo itself is there by accident. And though it&#8217;s plausible that the game could be on the board simply as an inspiration for puzzle design, that still wouldn&#8217;t explain the &#8220;6&#8221; next to the letters and logo, too. Curiouser and curiouser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/there-was-a-quake-tease-hiding-in-full-sight-in-the-developer-direct-showcase?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/there-was-a-quake-tease-hiding-in-full-sight-in-the-developer-direct-showcase?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans think they&#8217;ve spotted a reference to a new Quake game hiding in plain sight in Microsoft&#8217;s latest Developer Direct presentation. As spotted by ResetEra&#8217;s JigglesBunny &ndash; in a segment about puzzles in the newly-announced Indiana Jones and the Great Circle game &ndash; players think they can just make out the Quake symbol and a little text: &#8220;AKE 6&#8221; written in the foreground on a whiteboard. No, it&#8217;s not concrete proof &ndash; for one thing, it&#8217;s hard to imagine there&#8217;ll be a Quake 6 before a Quake 5 &ndash; whilst the letters themselves could be coincidental, it&#8217;s unlucky that the logo itself is there by accident. 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