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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – What’s Old is New

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is the latest in a twenty five year old franchise which has watched countless other FPS IPs rise and fall over the years. Jem Alexander talks to Arcade Berg, senior game designer at MachineGames to find out how shooter design is evolving

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Carmack questions idea of console generation switch

Id Software co-founder John Carmack has said he is dissatisfied with the industry abandoning aging console generations and the huge audiences that they have in favour of rising costs and added risk. Speaking toWiredon the 20th anniversary of Doom, the trailblazing first-person shooter he co-created with Jon Romero, Carmack said …

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Now another former Id employee makes jump to Oculus

Oculus VR has hired a second developer from Id Software. GameFront reports that Matt Hooper, the creative director of 2011 release Rage, left the studio six months ago and has now been confirmed as the director of development at the virtual reality specialist. We are thrilled to have Matt Hooper …

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Id’s Carmack named as Oculus Rift CTO

Id software co-founder and technical director John Carmack has joined Oculus as its chief technology officer. Carmack will work from the virtual reality company’s new office in Dallas, which the firm is currently in the process of staffing up. A spokesperson has toldDevelopthat he has joined the company on a …

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Doom 4 was scrapped because it "did not have spirit"

Id software director Tim Willits has admitted that the former build of Doom 4 was scrapped because it failed to harness the spirit of the series. In October 2011 it was revealed that work on the game had been indefinitely postponed” although both Id and publisher Bethesda insist that the …

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