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Play the Original Wolfenstein 3D in a Browser Thanks to HTML5

Gaming today is a multi-billion dollar industry, growing each year. First person shooters are among the top sellers, since they appeal to a large audience, but the high-tech graphics powerhouses of today can all trace their origins to one comparatively simpler game, Wolfenstein 3D, the game that "invented" first pers...

9 May 2012
14:51 GMT

New, Stealth-Based James Bond Game Coming from Singularity Developer

A new rumor is floating on the web concerning a fresh James Bond game which is currently in development at Raven Software, a developer owned by Activision and responsible for titles like Singularity, Wolfenstein or X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to the rumor, the new James Bond game will see the British spy a...

8 December 2010
02:30 GMT

Rumor Mill: Singularity Developer Raven Hit by Layoffs

Sources close to the Raven development studio, which was behind recent video games Singularity and Wolfenstein, have announced that about 40 people working there have been let go, with publisher Activision saying that the move is a normal one considering the projects that the team now has under development.It's ...

12 October 2010
03:19 GMT

Wolfenstein

Video games aren't exactly very innovative sometimes as, when they find a theme they can exploit, developers usually try to run it dry then abuse it some more before migrating to the next “cash cow.” Such is the case with World War II titles, which have appeared ever since the invention of fairly com...

28 August 2009
05:05 GMT

Nazis Not Better than Sports

The biggest release of the last few weeks, the new Wolfenstein videogame, has not managed to reach the first spot in the United Kingdom videogame chart.Despite the nostalgia factor that worked in its favor and offering a pretty competent, well, a bit derivative shooting experience, the game in which you fight mystici...

27 August 2009
04:30 GMT

Wolfenstein Is Not Well Received, Raven Sees Layoffs

Raven Software, which has recently released its latest shooter, Wolfenstein, to the public, has laid off a number of people, with most sources saying that 56 staff members out of 180 workers are now out of a job.It seems that the layoffs were a direct result of the workload that the company has completed and of how t...

27 August 2009
03:06 GMT

One Hour With: Wolfenstein

There are certainly a lot of shooters out there, many of them having appeared with the advent of 3D graphics and current- or last-generation consoles, which allowed them to portray events that were easy to imagine by players. But one franchise that draws its roots in the DOS era is Wolfenstein, which is currently ha...

21 August 2009
16:31 GMT

If Wolfenstein Beats Madden 10 in Sales, Clients Get Their Money Back

Wolfenstein will be one of August's biggest titles, promising to take the classic id Software franchise from the 1990s and bring it to all of the current-generation platforms with upgraded graphics, enemies and gameplay. But even though it will still appear in summer, it will have a tough opponent in the form o...

13 August 2009
04:02 GMT

No Slow Motion Mire for Multiplayer Wolfenstein

Wolfenstein is getting a reboot, one promising to be more successful than the handful of attempts at bringing the classic franchise back to life over the year, and one of the major components of any modern first person shooter is the multiplayer section, so the development team has been talking about how it plans to ...

4 August 2009
05:09 GMT

ZeniMax Deal Won't Change id Software

id Software is one of the most respected video game studios currently active in the industry, specializing in first person shooters, owning IPs like Wolfenstein, Doom or Quake. The studio has been a long-time representative of the small independent company that created blockbuster titles but, as you may know, it was ...

3 July 2009
03:08 GMT

Wolfenstein Gets Minimum PC Requirements

There are certainly a lot of high-quality titles lining up to be released in the second half of this year, especially in the fall season, right before the winter holidays, when, as we know, a lot of purchases are made, even though the economy isn't in the best shape. One of the most anticipated such games, and ...

2 July 2009
02:22 GMT

id Software Adds New Team for Mystery Project

A lot of people were surprised, and not necessarily in a good way, when ZeniMax Media, which is the parent company of Bethesda, announced having bought id Software, the legendary design studio responsible for the release of such classics as Doom and Quake.While gamers might still be thinking about what this means for...

1 July 2009
16:51 GMT

Bethesda Parent Company ZeniMax Buys id Software

In terms of first person shooters, one of the most revered studios is id Software, which is responsible for hit titles like Doom, Wolfenstein, or Quake. While the studio currently has in development a lot of projects, including the upcoming Activision-published Wolfenstein and the EA-published Rage, things weren'...

25 June 2009
03:27 GMT

id Software Saddened by the Termination of Duke Nukem Forever

id Software, the prestigious developer that is responsible for cult titles such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, or Quake, has recently shared its thoughts about the dismantling of the team from 3D Realms, which was working on the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever video game. The company has said, through the voice of its Dir...

16 June 2009
16:41 GMT

Third-Party Development on Wii Isn't Justified, Says id Boss

The Nintendo Wii is a record-breaking console, due to the fact that it has been enjoying a massive popularity ever since it was released. The big number of titles available for the platform have also contributed to the large number of users that the small, white Japanese console enjoys. But while it has a lot of tit...

5 May 2009
02:46 GMT

Call of Duty and Wolfenstein Heading to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network

Last week, the Game Developers Conference offered us many pieces of news related to upcoming games and services like OnLive. But this was also the time when the ESRB, the commission in charge of rating games for the territory of the United States, revealed new classifications, including two very interesting ones, Cal...

30 March 2009
02:18 GMT

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Might Get Quake Live Treatment, Says id

Gaming has seen a lot of things appear and disappear over the time, but one trend that is certainly here to stay is free browser-based video games. Even though the market was filled with Java or Flash-based minigames that only offered a pretty reasonable experience for casual players, id Software, the company behind ...

26 March 2009
14:11 GMT

Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone Is Free on Cydia, $4.99 on App Store

Id Software has released an open-source port of Wolfenstein for the iPhone. The paid version of the app (for non-jailbroken users) is also available in the iTunes App Store. Id Software published a lengthy letter from John Carmack in which the developer explains how Wolfenstein for iPhone came about. The source code ...

25 March 2009
11:07 GMT

There's No Rage Coming from id in 2009

id Software, the company that shaped the way gamers look at first person shooters with titles like Doom and Quake, is one of those developers that tend to answer most inquiries related to release dates with the well worn phrase “When it's done.” So, it's quite a surprise to hear the Chief Exeuct...

10 March 2009
16:21 GMT

James Bond Delayed to 2010, Wolfenstein Arrives in Summer

Activision Blizzard, the biggest third-party videogame publisher in the world, has really had a full day. The company presented its financial results, showing conflicting data to investors by posting an increase in revenue coupled with a loss of 72 million dollars, and it also detailed plans related to the release of...

12 February 2009
06:51 GMT

PS3 and Xbox 360 - New Wolfenstein in the Scope at Raven Software

A new game in id Software's Wolfenstein series, seems to be in the works over at Raven Software, following a comment from John Carmack earlier this year saying, "The company is pursuing Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake franchises with other partner developers", as Blue's News reports. Yahoo news sheds some more ...

14 May 2007
06:06 GMT


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