Quake III "Arena"

• FPS = "First Person Shooter"
• released December 2, 1999
  open-sourced August 19, 2005
• Id Software and John Carmack, home of the immensely popular Doom and Quake games
• Designed as a dedicated multi-player/networked experience (no single player game per se)
• "battle-tested" networking/multiplayer platform