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Doom, one of the progenitors of the first-person shooter genre, has returned to the Xbox Live Marketplace after a mysterious three-month hiatus. The classic PC title is available for 400 Microsoft Points ($5). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877396&view=rss&microfeed=true An "undisclosed number" of staff at Doom and RAGE developers id Software have been let go. [Gamasutra] More »
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Today's Fine Art features two men who worked on RAGE, id's recently-released desert shooter. One helped design (and build) the game's cars. The other, the game's mutants. More »
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A source claiming to be close to the publishers of the recently-launched Rage has told Kotaku that, at a recent "company wide" meeting held in Dallas, Bethesda and parent company Zenimax made the decision to "indefinitely postpone" development of Doom 4. More »
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You may recall that a couple of weeks ago, Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield ran an interview with id Software's CEO Todd Hollenshead about Rage. In the interview, Sheffield expressed some doubts about the game, and wasn't convinced by many of Hollenshead's answers. It was a solid piece of journalism, and as our own Stephen Totilo pointed out, it's the kind of interview we could use more of. More »
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The PC launch of id's anticipated shooter RAGE has been, well, a "Cluster!@#$". And that's in the developer's words. Does a massive update released over the weekend help things? More »
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It's not every day you get to play a new id game. If you're not counting iPhone games (and we're not counting iPhone games) or re-releases, the last new title the studio released was Doom 3. And that was in 2004. More »
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Quake Live is a browser based free-to-play version of the classic FPS Quake III Arena that has been out of beta for a year. In a recent interview with VG24/7 id CEO Todd Hollenshead discussed what hasn't gone right. More »
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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 »
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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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827918&view=rss&microfeed=true Bethesda said today that once the RAGE Facebook page reaches 100,000 "Likes", RAGE HD for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch will be available for free for one week. Like them on Facebook. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827825&view=rss&microfeed=true Starting today, Steam is celebrating id and Bethesda's Quakecon with deals on their games. Sales will change daily from now until August 8th. Today's deals include discounted games, free-to-play Brink, and in-game specials for TF2. More »
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Frenchman Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier has been drawing pretty pictures for the video game industry since 1996, in a career that's taken him from Darkworks (Cold Fear) to Ubisoft to id Software and now to Microsoft, where he's working on the upcoming Halo 4. More »
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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 »
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The folks over at Id have released their fourth Rage developer video and this time the focus is on the wasteland. Take a look at how Id plans on using the open world to facilitate gameplay, with a few food metaphors thrown in for good measure. More »
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Some wise words from a man who knows a thing or two about both first-person shooters and making a ton of money. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5822495&view=rss&microfeed=true Dark Horse Comics' Rage three-part miniseries kicks off today with issue one in stores now. Read up on the series here. More »
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id's upcoming RAGE has suffered a slight delay, being pushed back a few weeks from its original release date in September to one in October. More »
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There are two types of people in these E3 screenshots for id's upcoming RAGE. There are heavily-armed future soldiers, and there is Sloth from The Goonies with a spare tyre strapped to his back. More »
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The tie-in between reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin and Rage, the forthcoming post-apocalyptic first person shooter from id Software and Bethesda Softworks, eludes me. Griffin's last (and only) video game gig came on the cover of NCAA Basketball 10, canceled four months after release. Maybe he's seeking redemption? Maybe he hung onto his mo-cap suit and wants to find a use for it? Maybe Bethesda had some money laying around in its marketing budget? More »
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They made Doom. They made Quake. And next from the makers of mono-syllabic first-person shooters that always, at least, look great, is Rage. We've got a new trailer for the game today, a full five-minutes of gameplay, most of which occurs in the territory of The Shrouded, one of the game's main enemy factions. More »
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The last Doom movie was released in 2005, which should be enough time for viewers to erase the dreadful picture from their brains. More »
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This new trailer for id's upcoming open-world shooter RAGE turned up in advertisements overnight. You really should watch it. More »
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It is the season for battling in the Supreme Court about whether it should be a crime to sell very violent video games to children. No such law exists for other forms of entertainment. Who is for? Who is against? More »
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Stephen Totilo is live at Quakecon sitting in as three developers walk the audience through the latest on id Software's upcoming shooter, driver, role-playing game Rage. More »
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It's time to liveblog the QuakeCon 2010 keynote, everyone! What will id (and Bethesda) talk about? More »
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You may know John Carmack, co-founder of id Software and lead programmer of Doom, keeps busy building space rockets with his Armadillo Aerospace team. But rockets aren't all they do. More »
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More than 17 years after it was released, more than a decade after I was first paid to write about video games, I have finally played Doom. For an hour last night. My belated snap judgment? More »
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Rage to me feels like one of those sneaky games. Like Arkham Asylum, or Red Dead, where you're mildly interested in it before it comes out, then when it's out, it blows you away. More »
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Musician Trent Reznor has had a long relationship with game developer id. He scored Quake and did music for Doom 3 that did not make it into the game. No wonder there have been rumors about Reznor and Doom 4. More »
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Game designer John Romero and John Romero's hair ruled the roost during the 1990s. With titles like Doom and Quake, he not only helped popularize the first-person shooter, he defined it. Then the unthinkable happened. He made Daikatana. More »
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Legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta died on Monday. Today, the gaming industry pays tribute with a series of sketches and illustrations posted here, exclusively, to honor an influential man and a vision that shaped countless video games. More »
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id software today announced a date, time and place for QuakeCon, its annual celebration of all things Quake. And Doom. And anything else id has ever done, or is doing in the future. More »
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A takedown notice sent by ZeniMax led to the Android Store's removal of several ports of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein; one of the developers admits that, though the port used open-source Doom code, some of the game files were proprietary. More »
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This is the third in a series of posts labeled "Hindsight" that discuss games you may have thought we were done writing about. Last time: X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This time: Wolfenstein. More »
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With id showing no signs of reviving the Commander Keen IP anytime soon, a guy in New Zealand is taking it upon himself to remake the game, give it a more contemporary touch. More »
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Armadillo Aerospace - the company founded and owned by id boss and Doom co-creator John Carmack - has a good chance of winning itself $1,000,000 after taking an early lead in NASA's lunar lander challenge. More »
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There will be 12s in Rage, I was told recently. This was mentioned by an id Software developer as I tried to gather facts about id Software's next game. 12s? Oh, yes. 12s. More »
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What would a major gaming show be without new screenshots from a major game by a major developer? Nothing, that's what. Nothing. More »
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If you remember Doom 3, you'll remember that the amazing visuals and creepy setting were ruined by two things: too much darkness, and those stupid "monster closets." Looks like id have learned their lesson on the latter. More »
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