A Game Dev Used Retail Therapy to Navigate a Divorce, but Found a Long-Lost ‘Quake 4’ Expansion Instead

Tom Hawking· Aug 10, 2026 · 4:00 PM UTC ·3 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 3 views

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Quake 4 is kinda the forgotten sibling of the Quake family, so much so that just over two decades after its initial release, casual gamers might be forgiven for not realizing the series didn’t end with Quake III: Arena. The Awakening was buried so comprehensively, in fact, that basically no-one knew of its (non-)existence until 2017, when artist Vitaliy Naymushin released several images of models that would have appeared in the game. The models are interesting in and of themselves, and have been picked over in the decade since—this one, in particular, bears more than a passing resemblance to the Carcass monster from 2020’s Doom Eternal.

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▪Quake 4 is kinda the forgotten sibling of the Quake family, so much so that just over two decades after its initial release, casual gamers might be forgiven for not realizing the series didn’t end with Quake III: Arena.
▪The Awakening was buried so comprehensively, in fact, that basically no-one knew of its (non-)existence until 2017, when artist Vitaliy Naymushin released several images of models that would have appeared in the game.
▪The models are interesting in and of themselves, and have been picked over in the decade since—this one, in particular, bears more than a passing resemblance to the Carcass monster from 2020’s Doom Eternal.

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Quake 4 is kinda the forgotten sibling of the Quake family, so much so that just over two decades after its initial release, casual gamers might be forgiven for not realizing the series didn’t end with Quake III: Arena. Each of the series’ first three entries were, after all, both great games and landmarks for one reason or another: the original game was a flat-out masterpiece of low-poly Lovecraftian weirdness; its sequel was a milestone in the development of hardware-accelerated graphics; and Arena broke new ground with its focus on multiplayer action.

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