It's one of the big first first-person shooters. The do Quake-con around July every year.
Um... yeah any gamer who hasn't heard of Quake doesn't know much about gaming IMO. It's like having not heard of Doom, Half-Life, or any Blizzard game for that matter. Quake was made by id software, same company that made Doom. Doom was arguably the most important FPS ever made, and Quake was a huge hit for id, building on the success of Doom.
Why do you bring it up Gilby? Got some news? 
Ahhh the glory days of Doom II and their level building apps. A guy I worked with used a fire escape floor plan to build a scaled Doom II level of the plant building we worked in, including different level mobs representing Sups and Managers. Man, talk about therapeutic use of digital shotgun!!
yah so did this kids at Columbine. Or that kid in Pearl Ms build the school on a game and used it to practice.
I don't really have news on Quake, I read they are wanting to go old school like quake one on the next venture. I probably mentioned this before, no clue. Do a search for Wino+quake. The jerk lives in TX and went to Quake con this year. He's my first cousin.
