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RAGE: Campaign Edition Updated for Mac

Fans of the post-apocalyptic shooter Rage: Campaign Edition have a new patch to install, courtesy of Aspyr Media. Version 1.0.1 improves texture streaming performance, as well as stability with loading of saved games, and includes latest PC patch code, according to the release notes. The PC patch code in particular...

24 April 2012
16:31 GMT

Bethesda Promises Surprises for Both RAGE and Skyrim During April

Pete Hines, who is the main conduit for official communication from developer Bethesda, has announced that during the month of April fans of both the first-person shooter RAGE and those who prefer the role-playing in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim should get ready for some interesting announcements. Hines did not offer...

2 April 2012
17:51 GMT

Rage Patch 1.2 Now Available for Download on PC

Rage, the impressive post-apocalyptic first person shooter from id Software, has just received a brand new patch, taking it to version 1.2, which fixes quite a few of the texture problems it’s been experiencing since its first release last year. Rage was awaited for quite some time, with lots of gamers eagerly...

6 February 2012
04:55 GMT

RAGE: Campaign Edition Released in the Mac App Store

Aspyr Media has announced the release of RAGE: Campaign Edition for Mac OS X. Developed by id Software, the creators of DOOM and QUAKE, RAGE is a stunning first-person shooter set in the future, after an asteroid impacts Earth. “You emerge into this vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself...

3 February 2012
04:30 GMT

Rage HD 2.0 Released in the App Store

id Software has rolled out version 2.0 of their graphically stunning Rage HD video game for iPhone and iPad, adding a new Mutant Bash Store with IAP, new in-app purchasing, higher-res players and weapons, and lots more. The first in-app purchase delivered by id Software in Rage is Episode Pack 1: E04 Kraken & E05 Aq...

27 January 2012
09:51 GMT

id Software Lays Off Staff, Doom 4 Development Unaffected

id Software has confirmed that it has laid off a number of employees recently, although it refused to say exactly how many people were let go.Bethesda, the parent company of id Software, has said that the development process for the upcoming Doom 4 was not affected and that the restructuring process was not in any wa...

11 January 2012
16:31 GMT

FIFA 12 Is 2012’s First Number One in the United Kingdom

FIFA 12, the very polished and sometime incredibly funny football simulation from the EA Sports division of Electronic Arts, has managed to become the first number one of the United Kingdom video game chart for the year, while the rest of the top ten has remained very similar to that of last week.FIFA 12 keeps the to...

10 January 2012
08:21 GMT

Skyrim, Battlefield 3 and Rage Fixes in Official AMD Catalyst Performance Driver 11.11b

As expected, it didn't take too long for AMD to release fixes for Elder Scrolls Skyrim. The 11.11a Performance Driver had some unsolved issues at the time of the release but things seem to be on the right way.For a complete list of solved problems, please check the AMD Catalyst Performance Driver 11.11b download...

28 November 2011
04:17 GMT

Battlefield 3 Beats Batman: Arkham City During October

October might have seen a number of high profile video game launches but the NPD Group delivered figures are showing that the industry performed worse than the analyst expected it to.Battlefield 3, the first person shooter from Swedish developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, has been the best selling game of th...

14 November 2011
08:22 GMT

AMD Catalyst 11.11 Brings Your Rage Fix Next Week

NVIDIA just released its latest GeForce graphics driver so AMD customers may be wondering where their update is.   It so happens that Catalyst 11.11 is not far indeed, just a few days away in fact.   The driver will be launched next week and, at long last, will solve all those Rage issues that made a long...

11 November 2011
03:03 GMT

Rage (Xbox 360)

They brought us the Wolfenstein 3D, they brought us Doom and most importantly they brought us Quake. Now the legendary id Software returns with a game and an engine that will "blow your mind". Graphics never seen before in an open world shooter, mixed with awesome racing and post-apocalyptic scenery will allegedly m...

24 October 2011
11:28 GMT

Forza Motorsport 4 Takes Pole Position in United Kingdom Chart

Forza Motorsport 4, the racing game created by Turn 10 and published by Microsoft exclusively on the Xbox 360 home console, has managed to take the number one position in the video game United Kingdom chart during its first week on store shelves.The game offers an updated driving engine and a number of new tracks but...

18 October 2011
09:24 GMT

Blurry Rage Textures on PC to Be Addressed with New Patch, id Software Says

id Software technical boss John Carmack has confirmed that a new patch is currently being made for the PC version of Rage, in order to eliminate the issues with blurry textures still experienced by many gamers.Rage hasn't exactly had the best of launches on the PC platform, as issues with graphics card drivers m...

17 October 2011
06:59 GMT

A Gamer's Week: October 16

This week we delivered two full Softpedia reviews, one for Dead Island, a game that mixes paradise, zombies and foot kicks, and one for Sengoku, a Paradox Interactive made grand strategy that puts more emphasis on covert operations than on open warfare.We also have a Quick Look for the demo of Football Manager 2012, ...

16 October 2011
06:01 GMT

EndWeekGame: October 14

Andrei Dumitrescu: It's the fall launch season which means that left and right publishers are putting out new games and tempting players with big new releases but unfortunately there are only about 48 hours in a weekend and some really need to be dedicated to sleeping, housework, socializing and watching the sem...

14 October 2011
16:21 GMT

John Carmack Says PC Is No Longer Leading Games Platform

John Carmack, who is the main technology designer at id Software and created such legendary games as Doom and Wolfenstein, has stated that the PC is no longer the main platform for gaming.Speaking to IndustryGamers the games creator said, “We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games. That statement w...

14 October 2011
05:20 GMT

United Kingdom: FIFA 12 Scores for the Second Week

FIFA 12, the EA Sports made football simulation, has managed to stay at the top of the United Kingdom video game chart for the second week in a row and seems destined to hold on to the position until the launch of Battlefield 3 or maybe even Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.FIFA 12 has received glowing reviews after la...

11 October 2011
03:49 GMT

Patch Adds More Graphics Options for PC Version of RAGE

Developer id Software and publisher Bethesda have released a new patch for their first person shooter RAGE which introduces a number of new graphical options for the PC version of the game and allows players to have more control over how they play the game.When the game was first launched during last week players fou...

10 October 2011
04:56 GMT

A Gamer's Week: October 9

This week we have been football crazy, with a full review of FIFA 12 from EA Sports up on Softpedia, but we also had the time to play and comment on other video game launches.We have also created Quick Looks for RAGE, with some included bugs, for the Hearts of Iron - The Card Game and for the demo version of Might & ...

9 October 2011
05:41 GMT

NVIDIA Doesn't Have a Rage Driver but Forces a Fix, More or Less

Rage turned out to be quite appropriately named for a game, although not for reasons one would expect, certainly not pleasant ones, though NVIDIA did just offer a way to get over most problems. Rage is the new game from idSoftware and, knowing that these people crated Quake (among other things), there were, under...

7 October 2011
02:38 GMT

RAGE Was Not Announced Too Soon

The first new intellectual property for id Software for quite some years, RAGE, has just been released and a number of gamers have suggested that the less than inspired welcome is down to expectations for the title being too high because of how long the game has been in development.Speaking to VG247 at the Eurogamer ...

6 October 2011
04:44 GMT

Quick (and Buggy) Look - Rage (Video Included)

Rage was eagerly awaited by the huge legions of id Software fans, with many gamers looking forward to a brand new experience from the studio that made iconic franchises like Quake or Doom.With the promise of delivering a unique blend of first person shooting, because it's still an id Software title, role playing...

5 October 2011
09:32 GMT

Rage Shooter Gets Reloaded with Special AMD Driver

No sooner did Rage, the new game from id Software, get released that PC players ran into a whole bunch of performance and graphics issues, some of which may or may not be addressed by AMD's special driver. AMD released the Catalyst 11.9 WHQL graphics driver not long ago, but it saw the need to launch a speci...

5 October 2011
03:59 GMT

Rage PC Issues Caused by Graphics Card Drivers, id Software Says

Rage, id Software's long awaited hybrid between a first person shooter, role playing and racing game, was released yesterday in North America on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but most PC owners found it borderline unplayable by lengthy texture loading times and other such issues, which have now been attrib...

5 October 2011
03:56 GMT

RAGE Was Never Intended to Be Open World

RAGE will soon arrive on the consoles of gamers all over the world and the developers at id Software are trying to make sure that players approach the game right, talking about how choice is handled and why the game is not actually open world.Speaking to Gamasutra as part of a bigger interview Todd Hollenshead, who i...

5 October 2011
03:27 GMT

Max Payne 3 Uses Individually Modeled Bullets

The new Max Payne video game, which is being developed by Rockstar, is changing a lot about the franchise, from the location of the story to how the hero himself looks, but it seems that one main gameplay mechanics will see little change, apart from update tech.Rob Nelson, who is the art director at Rockstar working ...

3 October 2011
14:51 GMT

Rage Gets Last Gameplay Trailer Before Release This Week

Bethesda and id Software are finally set to debut the Rage role playing, first person shooter/racing hybrid tomorrow, October 4, in North America, and on October 6, in Europe, so the latest and greatest gameplay trailer has been released on the web.Rage is anticipated by the legions of id Software fans, who've w...

3 October 2011
06:28 GMT

Australian Law Reform Commission Releases Proposal for Video Game Classification

Australia has long been seen as a land of arcane and outdated ratings for both movies and video games but now the Australian Law Reform Commission has launched a public discussion which includes 43 discussion points linked to how the system can be rebuilt from the ground up.For video game publishers working in Austra...

3 October 2011
04:08 GMT

RAGE Will Create 75 New Million Fans for id Software

id Software is hoping that RAGE, the post apocalyptic first person shooter coming in early October, will change how gamers perceive the company.Speaking to Spong Tim Willits, who is the creative director working on RAGE at id Software, stated, “I believe when RAGE ships though, that it will change the perceptio...

29 September 2011
10:09 GMT

Rage on the Xbox 360 Comes on 3 DVDs, Separate Install Possible

id Software, the developer of the upcoming Rage title, has confirmed that the game will ship on three DVDs for the Xbox 360, but has also detailed the special install process that's designed to help owners of the console avoid long load times.Xbox 360 owners have worried a bit in regards to Rage, the new first p...

27 September 2011
14:21 GMT

Amyloid Proteins Are Target for New Alzheimer’s Vaccine

Georgia Health Sciences University graduate student Scott Webster says that targeting the amyloid protein and its pathways could lead to the development of a new type of vaccine against Alzheimer's. The disease, a neurodegenerative form of dementia, is incurable and fatal over time. It first acts by reducing ...

27 September 2011
02:52 GMT

id Software Says RAGE Was Inspired by Dozens of Movies and Books

RAGE is certainly something different for the developers at id Software, the first original intellectual property that they have created in some time, and one leading member of the team working on it has said that more than a dozen of books and movies served as inspiration.Speaking to Gamespot, Matt Hopper, who is th...

22 September 2011
17:51 GMT

Rage Gets Official PC System Requirements

After quite a lot of anticipation and build up, Rage, the new role playing hybrid between the shooter and racing genres from id Software and Bethesda has received its official PC system requirements and the general verdict is that they're quite decent, especially since it runs on the studio's new id Tech 5 ...

7 September 2011
04:20 GMT

id Software Ready to Deliver DLC for RAGE

The developers working on the first-person shooter RAGE at id Software have announced that they are ready to begin working on downloadable content for the title, but that they are also busy putting the finishing touches on the experience. The game will be launched on the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on O...

29 August 2011
16:31 GMT

John Carmack Says Framerate Is More Important than Quality for RAGE

RAGE, the upcoming first-person shooter from developer id Software and publisher Bethesda, has been looking very good since the two companies first showed it off, but legendary developer John Carmack says that the team has been told to prioritize a smooth framerate over actual graphics quality. Speaking to Gamasut...

23 August 2011
16:41 GMT

PlayStation 3 Version of RAGE Will Have 8 GB Mandatory Install

RAGE, the soon-to-be-released first-person shooter from publisher Bethesda and developer id Software, will have a mandatory 8 GB install on the PlayStation 3 home console from Sony. Players will be prompted to install the game as soon as they put in the game disk and there's no option to skip this part of the...

23 August 2011
15:01 GMT

id’s Gorgeous RAGE Shooter Now a Free Download on iTunes

Renowned game development studio id Software has announced that RAGE and RAGE HD are free to download from the iTunes App Store for an entire week.Rage is an upcoming first-person shooter game by id Software that will use the studio’s new id Tech 5 engine.First shown as a demo on June 11, 2007 at Apple's W...

19 August 2011
10:11 GMT

id Software Believes Always Connected Games Are Best for Gamers and Companies

When video game developer Blizzard announced that the upcoming Diablo III will need to be always connected to Battle.net via the Internet a lot of fans of the franchise and PC gamers in general were highly critical of the company, saying that the choice is nothing more than a ploy to introduce DRM measures via the ba...

11 August 2011
16:21 GMT

RAGE and id Tech 5 Might Come to Nintendo Wii U

RAGE is one of the big launches of the fall season, all the more important because of the fact that it is the debut of the all new id Tech 5 game engine, and a lot of people wondered whether the new technology and the new game might arrive on the Nintendo Wii.But speaking to IGN during QuakeCon Todd Hollenshead, who ...

10 August 2011
02:37 GMT

John Carmack Believes in Gaming Catharsis

Gaming has been held up in the last few years, by a number of influential people from academics to politicians, as one of the main causes for a number of violent incidents, implicated in anything from the Columbine shootings to the recent assault in Norway. But at least one leading video game developer believes th...

1 August 2011
02:29 GMT

Carmack Says Good Games Are Those Who Manage to Make Money, Create Value

As the video game industry evolves, both fans and analysts have decried the lack of innovation coming from big developers and publishers John Carmack, who is one of the founders of id Software and is now the lead engineer at the company, has told IndustryGamers that, “I am pretty down on people who take the...

19 July 2011
17:01 GMT

id Software Had Other Id Tech 5 Game in Development Before RAGE

id Software, the developer which is now part of the Bethesda Softworks family, is getting ready to launch its RAGE first-person shooter this fall, but it seems that the team working there was working on something else using their new id Tech 5 engine before getting the idea for their current project. Matt Hoper, w...

12 July 2011
04:59 GMT

DLC Should Not Detract from Game Quality, Says Bethesda

Bethesda Softworks has become well known for the quantity of downloadable content that it releases for its titles, be they The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion or Fallout 3, but the company insists that it is mainly focused on delivering the best experience it can in the base game, with thoughts about DLC only coming to th...

7 July 2011
17:41 GMT

Bethesda Delays RAGE to October 4 to Avoid Gears of War 3 Clash

Video game publisher Bethesda has delayed the launch date for the first-person shooter RAGE to October 4 in the United States and October 7 in Europe from its original spot in the middle of September, apparently in order to make sure that the release is not too clear to that of the Epic Games-made Gears of War 3.The ...

13 June 2011
18:21 GMT

E3 2011 Hands On: RAGE

The big push at Bethesda seemed to be for the upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim but the company was also showing a lot of love for RAGE, the game that well known developer id Software has developed for a long while using their all new game engine.I managed to take a look at the game last year at the Gamescom event...

9 June 2011
23:52 GMT

Cloud Gaming Will Grow in Coming Years

John Carmack, who is one of the founders of well-known developer id Software, has said that the cloud gaming phenomenon is one of the trends that will heavily influence the industry in the coming years. The legendary developer has spoken to Industry Gamers and said, “I think cloud gaming will eventually be a s...

26 May 2011
16:21 GMT

Rage Gets Multiplayer Details, New Gameplay Trailer and Screenshots

The upcoming Rage title has just received a batch of fresh details from its developer, id Software, and publisher, Bethesda, with information being spilled on its two distinct multiplayer modes, while the single-player portion received new screenshots and a gameplay video. Rage is shaping up to be a surprise hit, ...

20 April 2011
02:45 GMT

With RAGE, Skyrim and Prey 2, Bethesda Will Focus on Quality

The video game publishing business can be tough at times, as seen in the downfall of Midway and of other smaller companies, but the leaders of Bethesda seem to have found a way of growing even as other companies feel the pressures of recession. Pete Hines, who is the vice president at Bethesda focused on marketing...

19 April 2011
18:41 GMT

RAGE Gets Extra Guns and Armor with Anarchy Edition, Free for Pre-Orders

Bethesda Softworks, the video game publisher that will publish the upcoming first-person shooter RAGE, has announced that all those who will take a chance and pre-order the title will be getting an automatic upgrade to the Anarchy Edition of the video games, which includes quite bit of extra content. The items which...

19 April 2011
16:31 GMT

Rage Can Be Finished in 15 Hours

Rage, the upcoming post-apocalyptic first-person shooter from id Software and Bethesda can be completed in around 15 hours, at least according to its creative director, Tim Willits. The developer of the game, id Software, has been pretty silent about the upcoming Rage, but, at least judging from its feature set, w...

8 April 2011
02:40 GMT


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