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id Software Says Alleged Doom 4 Screenshots Are Fake

The development studio id Software has stated that it is still currently working on Doom 4, despite a number of rumors that have suggested that the game was cancelled, and that the in-game screenshots that were posted on some sites during the week were fake.Matthew Hooper, who is the design director working on Doom 4...

3 March 2012
08:53 GMT

RAGE Diary: id Software Should Be Involved with Fallout

There was a time when both Fallout: New Vegas and RAGE were both in development and quite a number of gamers were asking whether the two games were sharing a universe, given that the post apocalypse was the center for both and that the color palette seemed pretty similar, not to mention that Bethesda was publishing t...

18 October 2011
18:11 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

John Carmack: iPad 2 Not as Powerful as Current-Gen Consoles

id Software technical director, John Carmack, does not agree with the industry that Apple’s iPad 2 is breaking all boundaries by offering a console-level experience when it comes to new-generation video games. Carmack admits that Apple’s iPad 2 is impressive, noting that devs are no longer forced to po...

24 August 2011
04:24 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

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

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

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

New RAGE Site Delivers Free Song for Fans

There are about six months until the official launch date for RAGE, the new first-person shooter from id Software, but the company is already in full marketing mode for the game, announcing that the official game has been redesigned, offering more information than ever, and giving away one free song for all those who...

11 March 2011
14:41 GMT

Incoming 2011 – RAGE

What we know RAGE is a new first-person shooter from id Software and Bethesda, built using a brand new engine and set to deliver a hardcore shooting experience that is broken up by vehicle-based sections. The game takes place on Earth after the impact of an asteroid that pretty much destroyed the world and create a...

23 February 2011
18:21 GMT

Rumor Mill: The Elder Scrolls V Worked on at Bethesda

A source within Bethesda has stated that the development team is working on a new Elder Scrolls video game although nothing has been officially announced yet, with the narrative of the new title taking place immediately after the end of the events seen in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.A news piece appearing on the D...

24 November 2010
05:26 GMT

Carmack Might Do Kinect Powered Title for XBLA

John Carmack, the Chief Technical Officer at id Software, has said that Kinect, the motion tracking system launched by Microsoft in early November, is not suited for the main games that the company is creating, like RAGE, but could be used to power smaller titles for the Xbox Live Arcade service.Talking to Joystiq as...

22 November 2010
17:41 GMT

Shinji Mikami Says ZeniMax Is Willing to Wait for Great Games

Shinji Mikami, one of the best known Japanese video game creators, responsible for delivering Resident Evil and its sequels, recently formed an independent game development company that has recently been acquired by ZeniMax, the company which also owns Bethesda Softworks.The developer has justified the move , stating...

15 November 2010
03:45 GMT

ZeniMax Buys MachineGames to Work with id Tech 5 Engine

ZeniMax Media is continuing its shopping spree and, after buying Shinji Mikami's Tango Gameworks, has just revealed that it has acquired European development studio MachineGames, and will task it with creating multi-platform titles using the id Tech 5.ZeniMax Media is the parent company of Bethesda, owning not o...

12 November 2010
14:21 GMT

Weekend Reading: Good Looking RAGE and Good Story New Vegas

There's a bit of me that cannot quite enjoy Fallout: New Vegas as much as I should.And, make no mistake, this is a video game I thoroughly love for its sharp writing, complex faction mechanics, mostly fun characters and still fun VATS powered limb detachment action.The thing I cannot get over when solving quests...

30 October 2010
13:41 GMT

Rage Will Be Released In September 2011

id Software announced during QuakeCon that Rage will be released on the 13th of September 2011 in North America and on the 15th of September 2011 in Europe on the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC. Tim Willits, lead designer of Rage, was demonstrating the game on all three platforms simultaneously on stage when ...

16 August 2010
04:19 GMT

id Tech 5 Will Not Be Licensed Outside ZeniMax

Todd Hollenshead, the chief executive officer of id Software, has declared that id Tech 5 will not be licensed to third party publishers and developers, but that it would only be used in titles distributed by ZeniMax or Bethesda Softworks. It seems that id Tech 5 will not have the same status as the Unreal Engine 3.0...

13 August 2010
09:07 GMT

id Tech 5 Is a Disruptive Technology for RAGE

id Software is eager to become one of the companies that defines how gaming works and one of the conduits for its transformation will be the new Tech 5 game engine, which is currently revolutionizing the way the development team at the company works and will probably do the same for the wider video game industry, ac...

11 August 2010
13:41 GMT

Doom 4 Announced Again

id Software is putting on a show at QuakeCon, telling gamers all about what the future holds for the company. And, apart from Rage, which got a new trailer showing off its awesome graphical quality, id fans are getting a new Doom game.We have known that the franchise was getting a new game since May, since some job p...

1 August 2008
08:34 GMT

RAGE Will Be Distributed by Electronic Arts

id Software and Electronic Arts are announcing that they have entered a deal regarding the distribution of the upcoming id title RAGE through the EA Partners label. The new game from id is being billed as "an all-new take on the first person shooter," and is in development for the PC, the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 ...

16 July 2008
14:06 GMT

Apple Conference Reveals id Software's New Graphics Engine

During Engadget's liveblogging of Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote, id Software got their chance to show off their newest technology in developing games. The engine isn't named after the game using it. It's simply dubbed "id Tech 5," most likely in reference to a fifth generation engine, although I'm...

12 June 2007
03:31 GMT


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