Kotaku: Id Software

QuakeCon 2012 Dated for Early August

Mike Fahey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:45:00 EST

Id's annual celebration of virtual people shooting other virtual people will take place August 2 – 5 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. If you start studying up for John Carmack's annual keynote right now you should be able to understand it by then! [QuakeCon] More »

Rage Demo Now On Xbox Live; Hits PS3 Dec. 6

Brian Crecente — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:20:00 EST

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Rage, id Software's beloved and detested blending of post-apocalyptic combat racing and first-person shooter, finally has a demo. More »

Let's Play Peekaboo with Guns

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:00:00 EDT

Here, in this Rage clip, wonky A.I. leads to deadly child's play. Peekaboo? More like peekabang. More »

Snoop Dogg Explains a Waffle Maker, Feeds Chicken, And Talks Scented Candles

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:20:00 EDT

Rage's Wasteland is a mean bitch. There are essentials you are going to need to survive, like TV remote controls, dirty mags, and firepower. Who better to explain that than Snoop? More »

Rage Viewed from the Inside and the Underside

Brian Crecente — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:40:00 EDT

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There appears to be a number of ways to drop yourself beneath the skin of Rage. This one, by hidden rebel elevator, seems the most convenient. More »

Rage: The Kotaku Review

Brian Crecente — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT

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It doesn't really hit me until about half way through the game. I've been spending so much time worrying over the trick of staying alive that I haven't notice just how insignificant I am. More »

Watch a Man Shoot a Home-Made Rocket Called Quake all the way Into Space

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:30:00 EDT

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Among amateur rocket-launching circles, there's a bounty called "The Carmack Prize". It's named for id boss, Doom co-creator and budding rocket scientist John Carmack, and will reward anyone who can get a home-made rocket 100,000 feet into space and capture some GPS data from it. More »

Why Was The PC Launch of Rage Such A "Cluster!@#$"?

Brian Crecente — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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The idea from the start was a game that blurred the lines between how games looked on console and PC. More »

id Explains How to Tweak the Most Out of PC Rage, More Official Settings Coming Soon

Brian Crecente — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:40:00 EDT

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The PC version of Rage will soon have a bevy of new ways for gamers to tweak the way the game behaves and looks on their system, id Software tells Kotaku. More »

How To Get Rage To Run On Your PC, An id Software Guide

Brian Crecente — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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The computer version of Rage hasn't exactly been trouble free for some folks trying to play id Software's latest creation. I haven't run into any over issues, but I've got a high-end tower that I just ran through a massive driver update. That's not the norm. More »

In Case You are Wondering, I Am Playing RAGE at 5760 x 1080 Pixel Resolution

Joel Johnson — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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When Nvidia was in the Kotaku offices the other day showing off, well, something we can't quite talk about yet, they noticed we didn't have a dedicated gaming PC. (All of Kotaku's gaming rigs are in the homes of our writers, including mine.) So they had Falcon Northwest cook up a nice little rig—Intel i7 2600K (with a splash of overclocking), 4GB o'RAM, and a couple of GTX580 cards with a grand-and-a-half of onboard RAM in SLI—and let us use it for a while. More »

Finding a Little Doom in Your Rage

Brian Crecente — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:20:00 EDT

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There are plenty of Doom coffee mugs laying around in the world of Rage. But that's not the little bit of Doom I'm talking about, I'm talking about some retro gameplay. More »

PlayStation Gamers Choose Dark Souls Over Rage...at Kmart

Mike Fahey — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:08:00 EDT

According to a surprised Kmart Gamer, the avatar of all things gaming and Kmart related, the PlayStation 3 version of Dark Souls outsold Rage on the PS3 yesterday, defying expectations, while Rage reigned supreme on the Xbox 360. [Twitter] More »

How To Find Quake Inside Rage

Brian Crecente — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:20:00 EDT

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Earlier today we posted our walk-through video showing how you to find a little bit of Wolfenstein 3D inside id Software's Rage. Here's a look at how to find Quake in the game. More »

How To Find the Wolfenstein Room Inside of Rage

Chris Carolan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:40:00 EDT

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Everybody kind of remembers Wolfenstein 3D, I personally remember it as that game I secretly played while my parents were working. This quick walkthrough will show you how to get to the secret Wolfenstein 3D room, an easter egg nestled within the very first mission of the game. More »

Rage Runs Fine on My PC; What About Yours?

Brian Crecente — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:20:00 EDT

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While I haven't had any issues running id Software's Rage on my high-end computer, it seems that there are a number of issues plaguing folks checking out the game on their rigs this morning. More »

Game Reviewers Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Rage

Mike Fahey — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT

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Yes, I'm remixing lines from Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night", but only because game reviewers' mixed reactions to id Software's Rage have my head spinning. More »

To Do in Dallas This Evening: Stalk Rage's Creators

Mike Fahey — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:40:00 EDT

Dallas-based id Software has a big title coming out tonight, so Tim Willits, Matt Hooper, John Carmack, and other key members of the Rage team will be hanging out at a GameStop, just like everyone else. Show them some love. More »

Jackal Canyon Is Not A Friendly Place

Brian Crecente — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:00:00 EDT

This final Rage gameplay video gives us a look at Jackal Canyon in id Software's upcoming Rage. More »

Rage will require 3 Discs on 360, 8 GB Install on PS3

Owen Good — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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At Eurogamer Expo, the creative director for Rage confirmed that the game will release on three discs for the Xbox 360, and for PS3 owners, require an 8 GB install. More »

Rage System Requirements Are Fittingly Barren

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:30:00 EDT

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Is your PC up for id Software's version of a post-apocalypse? Can you play Rage as God and John Carmack intended? Why not check the Windows version's system requirements, just in case you need a last minute hardware upgrade? More »

In Crystal Meth Wonderland You Can Play Rage With a Light Gun

Mike Fahey — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:40:00 EDT

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Dealing with the guilt of shooting someone in the head, Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman winds down with the special light gun version of id Software's Rage. More »

Rage's Subwaytown is My Kinda Town

Brian Crecente — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:11:34 EDT

We're all big, BIG fans of Rage over here at Kotaku. I've already played three hours of the shooter, driving role-playing game and I can't wait to play more. For now, though, I'm going to have to make do with this new gameplay video created just for this week's PAX. More »

iPad 2 "About Half" as Powerful as Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Says Man Who Would Know

Joel Johnson — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EDT

The iPad 2 is "about half" as powerful as modern games consoles like the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, according to graphics genius John Carmack. More »

Rage and Rage HD iOS Free for a Week

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:55:00 EDT

Id Software promised to give away the iPhone and iPad versions if it got 100,000 "Likes" on Facebook. It did. So now it's going to be free for one week. Swing by the App Store to get it. [iTunes] More »

You're Gonna Have to Buy Rage New If You Want to Crawl Through a Sewer

Owen Good — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:00:00 EDT

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Plenty of publishers are walling off certain game content behind an "online pass," a one-use code that's included free with a retail copy but likely burnt up in that used disc you just bought for a lot less. In most cases, it covers something like online multiplayer. Not Rage. More »

John Goodman Welcomes You To Rage's Future

Brian Crecente — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:20:00 EDT

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In this sixth video looking behind the scenes of Rage, id Software talks about the sound design of the upcoming shooter, role-playing game. That means we get to hear about how the music, sound effects and voice acting came together. In other words: John Goodman More »

Watch One of John Carmack's Fabled QuakeCon Talks

Brian Crecente — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:20:00 EDT

The John Carmack keynote at Quakecon is always memorable and a bit of a mental marathon. The man builds games, invents gaming tech and created real life rocketships in his spare time. More »

Live from QuakeCon, a Rage Playthrough Liveblog

Joel Johnson — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:30:00 EDT

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Hello, eerbody! I'm in Dallas, Texas, at QuakeCon, about to have my first play time with id Software's new marquee title, Rage. I hope to write up impressions later, but I thought you might enjoy seeing my notes live as I play. More »

John Carmack Explains How to Make Rage Look Terrible

Joel Johnson — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:00:00 EDT

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This afternoon, in an empty conference room inside the Hilton Anatole—a bizarre amalgam of hotel, conference center, and shopping mall—John Carmack sat alone in an uncomfortable metal chair, staring straight ahead. The technical director and co-founder of id Software, the company that invented the first-person shooter genre that now dominates much of the hard core video game industry, patiently waited to give the opening keynote of Quakecon 2011, a fan conference held annually in Dallas, Texas since 1997. More »

Rage Avatar Items Not the Doom We Were Looking For

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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We here at Kotaku are waiting, hoping, wondering if there will be Doom 4 news during the QuakeCon 2011 keynote that is occurring as I type this. We got a new Rage trailer already. We got some iOS id games going on sale. And now.... More »

This Spectacular Rage Trailer Gives Us Something to Fight For

Mike Fahey — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:31:58 EDT

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Just in time for the kickoff of QuakeCon 2011, the epic new trailer forRage sheds new light on the forces aligned against humanity's remnants in id's post-apocalyptic shooter. More »

How To Make The Doom 4 We All Want and Need

Brian Crecente — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:00:00 EDT

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For a time, years, whenever a person talked about a first-person shooter they called it a Doom Clone. Such was the power, the influence of one of the first, first-person shooters, the proto-FPS. More »

Forget Quake, It's Cake Team Arena Time

Mike Fahey — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:20:00 EDT

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In celebration of this weekend's QuakeCon and the 20th anniversary of id Software, id and Bethesda sent me the most hideous cake I've ever had sitting on my coffee table, and I shop at the Publix bakery. More »

The Traveler’s Guide To Quakecon

Brian Crecente — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:00:00 EDT

QuakeCon isn't just a celebration of all things id Software (and a touch of Bethesda) it's also one of the longest running bring-your-own-computer gaming events in the world. More »

Rage is the id Software Comeback I've Been Waiting For

Brian Crecente — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EDT

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Rage opens with a glimpse of a fictional future once considered possible. More »

Rage Enemies Have Personality, At Least Until You Kill Them

Mike Fahey — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:40:00 EDT

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In the latest behind-the-scenes video for Rage, the folks at id Software explain how they created hordes of lifelike, realistic, thinking and feeling enemies for you to tear into little pieces. That's why they build them up, buttercup. More »

The Killing Tools of Rage Are Many and Varied

Mike Fahey — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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id Software's Rage might feature a massive scope, a twisting and turning plot, and a focus on exploration, but these haven't taken away from what id does best: Killing people, places, and things with a wide variety of deadly weapons. More »

The End of the World is the Beginning of Rage

Mike Fahey — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EDT

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The latest developer documentary for id Software's Rage demonstrates just how similar the story of this game is to a Fallout title. More »

In Memory of the Original Castle Wolfenstein (the one That Wasn't In 3D)

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT

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It's a slightly sad quirk of video game history that id Software's Wolfenstein 3D is lauded as a masterpiece of gaming while the title it was heavily inspired by - name and all - is afforded no such honour. More »