Rage review

Oct. 4, 2011   1 Comment  

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The creators of Doom and Quake are back. Is the trip to the wasteland worth it?

Rage will ship on 3 discs on Xbox 360, requires 8GB install on PS3

Sept. 24, 2011   2 Comments  

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Yeah, it’s going to be big.

QuakeCon 2010 Tournament Line Up Announced

Aug. 9, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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How many hours will John Carmack yammer on for, THIS year?

Bethesda to publish RAGE, not EA

Dec. 15, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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A switch in publishers. Sign of trouble? Or prosperity?

ZeniMax aquires Doom creator id Software

June 25, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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You’ve got Fallout in my DOOM; oh wait, now they’re one.

Wolfenstein 3D coming to XBLA + PSN

May 29, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Killing Nazi scum is great, why not do it again?

Novelist brought in for Doom 4

Jan. 21, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Gamespot and ZDNet have a story that novelist Graham Joyce has been hired to write the back story for Doom 4. More than 15 years ago, gamers met the space marine, and except for occasional scrolling message cut scenes, there wasn’t much of a story to tell. Hell spawn = bad. Shoot a lot. But [...]

The original Wolf3D FAQ

Oct. 1, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Sure we haven’t updated our Doom page in a while. So here’s a whopper, Adam Williamson’s original and complete Wolf3D/SoD FAQ

Quake MMO a Long Shot

Aug. 11, 2008   Leave a Comment  

The push for Massively Multiplayer Online video games in the past few years has been a strong one. It’s no surprise then, that a few publishers have tried to get the first-person shooter classic Quake to take the plunge. In a recent interview with shacknews.com John Carmack, President of id Software and lead designer behind [...]

E3 2008: id Software partnering with EA

July 14, 2008   Leave a Comment  

LOS ANGELES — In a landmark team-up, Electronic Arts will welcome the creator of the first person shooter, id Software, as its newest partner. “It really is a good match for an indie studio like id, because it gives us access to their world-wide marketing muscle,” said id’s John Carmack during the Electronic Arts E3 [...]

The Old Shoebox: Heretic shareware

March 3, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Released quickly after Doom, using a modified version of the same game engine, Heretic is a fantasy first person shooter designed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed, along with everything else in those days, by GT Interactive in 1994. Heretic introduced ambient noise — evil laughter and such — that was random, [...]