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QuakeCon 2011 registration starts tomorrow

By Tom Senior published 25 May 2011

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A new post on Bethblog announces that registration for QuakeCon will start start tomorrow. The free annual event celebrates all things id Software, and features an enormous Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) LAN party at its heart. QuakeCon 2011 will take place in the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas and tickets are free.

Registration will start tomorrow at 8:00PM EST / midnight GMT. To scoop a ticket, apply for entry behind this giant orange "Q" in about ... one day and 14 hours, at the time of writing. You can get the latest updates on the QuakeCon Facebook page and QuakeCon's Twitter .

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Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.

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