Developer: Id Software Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Release Date: October 4th, 2011 Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 [reviewed], and PC “Your reputation is everything here. If people don’t know you, they don’t like you.” Such is the motto set for your post-apocalyptic adventure after the impact of a galactic asteroid alters much of Earth’s landscape. You take the role of a recent escapee from the government’s last-ditch effort for post-disaster reclamation Read More ...
Bethesda Softworks has sent us the sixth and final video gameplay walkthrough for the upcoming first person shooter, Rage. In this video, the Resistance has heard rumors of an Ark surfacing in Jackal Valley, and they need you to search the site for a valuable data decrypter. Finding it won’t be easy as the valley is home to one of the Wastelands most brutal factions, the savage Jackal Clan. Rage Read More ...
id Software and Bethesda have announced that QuakeCon 2011 will take place on August 4th-7th 2011 at the Hillton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. QuakeCon will once again host North America’s largest bring your own computer LAN party with thousands of gamers hooking up their systems to play against world class opposition apparently. Also expect hardware and software showcases from other companies as well as contests, entertainment, announcements, panels and Read More ...
id Software has reminded us that their first ever game is now 20 years old. That title was the good old-school side-scroller Commander Keen. It was released on 14th December 1990, a whole two months before id Software was officially founded. “My childhood was pretty much made up of Mario games on the console, and Commander Keen on the PC,” said id Software’s Mike Rubits.
ZeniMax Media has secured another $150 million from Providence Equity Partners, to be spent on “increased game development”, “strategic acquisitions and “expanded publishing operating”. The company already own Bethesda, id Software, Splash Damage and Arkane Studios. Providence Equity Partners put $300 million into ZeniMax only three years ago. Their upcoming game portfolio now includes Brink, Fallout: New Vegas, RAGE and Doom 4. “Since our original investment in 2007, ZeniMax Media Read More ...
id Software technical director John Carmack has unveiled a tech demo of Rage running at 60fps on iPhone during his keynote at QuakeCon 2010. It took Carmack two weeks to get the demo up and running. It will form the basis for a small Rage title on the platform sometime later this year. There will be a second Rage iPhone game out next year alongside the PC, PS3 and 360 Read More ...
Todd Hollenshead has confirmed that id Tech 5 will not be licensed out to third party developers and publishers like the unreal engine. id Tech 5 was launched at QuakeCon 2007, alongside flagship title Rage. It was originally going to be a middleware platform to rival the unreal engine, but when id Software was acquired by ZeniMax Media in 2009 it didn’t look likely.
Id Software has today announced the availability of two subscription packages for Quake Live. Players will still be able to play for free, but there are now some other options for the high rollers amongst you.
