A special DVD Collectors Edition was released, including promotional material and the game Quake II with its expansions, The Reckoning and Ground Zero. Quake 4 went gold in early October 2005 and was released on Octofor Microsoft Windows and later for Linux and OS X, as well as being a launch title for the Xbox 360. id Software supervised the development of the game as well as providing the id Tech 4 engine upon which it was built. Raven Software collaborated with id Software, the creators and developers of preceding Quake games. The game was developed by Raven Software and published by Activision.

Quake 4 is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game, the fourth title in the Quake series.