File:QL.png File:Globe.png Quake Live is the latest installment of the Quake series of first-person shooters, designed by id Software. It is a modified version of Quake 3 Arena: Gold. It is launched through Steam or a browser plug-in, which runs on computers running Windows, OS X or Linux. Quake Live was different from Quake 3 Arena in that it was free. Supported browsers were Internet Explorer 7+, Mozilla Firefox 2+, and Safari 3+. It was also proven to work under Google Chrome. Quake Live was first announced at QuakeCon 2007 as Quake Zero. The name was changed to Quake Live in 2008 due to a domain squatting issue. Quake Live entered invitation-based closed beta in 2008, entered open beta on February 24, 2009, and was fully released on August 6th, 2010. Two pay to play choices were made