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
Read More »John ‘Zero4’ Hill on Quake Champions, working with id and the competitive scene of Quake
“At the beginning of this year, I was in Texas and I asked if it was possible to see the id Software studio. So, I came in, saw the place, and started talking to everyone asking if any of the guys at id needed help on any of this stuff.” …
Read More »DoomRL creator makes free roguelike open-source to try and counter Zenimax legal threat
"I planned to release the source code of DoomRL as a "thank you" after a successful Jupiter Hell Kickstarter, but ZeniMax forced my hand."
Read More »Models from Hell: How practical maquettes defined the original Doom
Learn how the man behind RoboCop's special effects helped create the look of id Software's most terrifying monsters
Read More »Valve pledges more support for iD Tech student camps
Portal developer offers Steam accounts, Valve games and Source SDK to students
Read More »Why John Carmack left id for Oculus VR
Co-founder of id jumped ship when Zenimax turned down virtual reality pitch
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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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