Coming out of nowhere, the madlads at Nightdive Studios have released a remastered version of Quake 2, available on all current consoles and PC (via Steam and Xbox Gamepass). Steam users who already own Quake 2 get the remaster as a free update.
This release includes:
-The Reckoning
-Ground Zero
-Call of the Machine, a new 28-map expansion by Machine Games
-The Nintendo 64 version of Quake II, a 19-map unique-ish campaign on PC for the first time
-Local and online multiplayer, including co-op, with crossplay
-Various modern enhancements, as you'd expect
Release trailer
here. Price is US$9.99 on all platforms.
Update: Limited Run Games will be doing a physical release of all versions (store page
here). Prices start at US$34.99 and rise depending on how much Stuff you want in addition to the game. Their PC release has no base version and contains a Steam code instead of a disc, which is disappointing but expected at this point.
Update 2: They've made the source for the remaster
and the reverse-engineered code for the N64 port available on Github (
here).