Posted by Eric March on April 5, 2008 at 12:44 pm

April Fools is over, so stop looking at your calendar. This is the real deal, people. Canadian game developers HermitWorks, creators of the rather cool Space Trader, have just posted a short blog entry showing a ridiculously impressive video of Quake III Arena running on two iPod Touch units. Yes, I said two. Network play, baby! The game appears to run at a very impressive frame rate, and it uses the accelerometer for movement and screen taps for firing.
So we’ve been playing around with Quake 3 and Apple’s iTouch. Scott grabbed the icculus source and with a few modifications had it running pretty quick. Here’s a video of him with two iTouch’s in multiplayer.
No word on whether they plan on releasing the binaries for this once they get it fully functional, nor for that matter whether they plan on taking the experiment that far in the first place, but let’s keep whatever appendages are handy crossed. Check out the vid below.
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