New id game revealed tonight News • News • Eurogamer.net

News PC Xbox 360 PlayStation 3

Doom 4 not a million miles away.

id Software will reveal a new game at QuakeCon tonight.

id founder and technical director John Carmack said on Twitter that id will announce a brand new game at QuakeCon, which is due to kick off at 8.30pm UK time tonight.

"I'm showing something neat and unannounced at quakecon tomorrow. Deciding if I should leave it be or sneak a little more code in..."

Elsewhere, Carmack told the Official PlayStation Magazine (reported by TVB) that Doom 4 shouldn't take as long to get out the door as its other shooter Rage is taking.

"We've got Doom 4 going on right now below our feet here," he said.

"The Doom team are all sped up and working on this technology base – I'm not really at liberty to discuss much about it, but it's going full steam ahead right now.

"It shouldn't take as long to ship as Rage. It's already in the pipeline and we feel good about it."

Rage is due out next year.

What do we know about Doom 4?

In August last year id Software boss Todd Hollenshead said the developer will talk about Doom 4 in more detail at QuakeCon 2010, so expect a proper reveal tonight.

"When we show it to you you're gonna love it," he said.

Doom 4 was first announced in 2008 when id started seeking people to begin work on it. Hollenshead has denied it would be a sequel, but said it wasn't a reboot either.

Carmack told Eurogamer that Doom 4 will be "three times" the visual quality of Rage thanks to its 30fps frame-rate (Rage runs at 60), and that it may "leverage some of the Quake Live infrastructure" for multiplayer.

About Wesley Yin-Poole

Wesley is Eurogamer's news editor. He likes news, interviews, and more news. He also likes Street Fighter more than anyone can get him to shut up about it.

Read more articles from Wesley by visiting the Wesley Yin-Poole archive page.

Comments (47) Latest comment 2 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

Order
- Oldest
- Newest
- Best
- Worst
Score
- -25
- -10
- -1
- 0
- +1
- +10
- +25

the_dudefather #1 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Storyboards for the the introduction sequence have already been uncovered
- Log in or register to reply
- +6 - +
linksdad #2 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
"id Software's suggested Doom 4 will be released before Rage."

The suggested that belongs to id Software or the suggested Doom 4?

And how do you triple fidelity by halfing framerate?

Wesley, thanks for editing your poor grammer and making my comment look irrelevant.

Edited by 3 at 12/08/10 @ 12:17
- Log in or register to reply
- -1 - +
bad09 #3 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Mmmmm Doom 4....

/ drools
- Log in or register to reply
- +11 - +
Bleemo #4 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
"It shouldn't take as long to ship as Rage. It's already in the pipeline and we feel good about it."

Surely that just means there is less time from development to release, not that it will come out quicker than Rage.
- Log in or register to reply
- +14 - +
Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #5 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Unannounced game being announced tonight?

/prays for Commander Keen
- Log in or register to reply
- +8 - +
Sunshyme #6 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Indeed, it's all about the development time and not a release date. RAGE is about 3 years in development? He's only saying that DOOM 4 will have a shorter development time. 2011 RAGE, 2012 DOOM 4 would be my guess.

Although I'd love to see DOOM 4 releasing before RAGE I don't think it's going to happen.
- Log in or register to reply
- +7 - +
andywilkie35 #7 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Hope its Quake 5
- Log in or register to reply
- +3 - +
siro #8 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Why the fuck can Eurogamer never close any quotations? This article has two unclosed quotes (which is still less than in others) and it makes articles hard to read.

Or is it only articles by Wesley, as the last two times I noticed this were put live by him as well.

On topic: If it's as speedy as classic Doom with crazy graphics, I'm sold.
- Log in or register to reply
- -9 - +
mfnick #9 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
As Bleemo has said, I don think it means it will be out before RAGE. Its just not going to take as long to develop.

Either way DOOM 4 please!!! Loved 3. Hope they donty listen to the hatesr & keep the old school feel still & layer even more atmosphere onto it.
- Log in or register to reply
- +3 - +
des #10 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Another shitty non-news from EG...yuck

"It shouldn't take as long to ship as Rage. It's already in the pipeline and we feel good about it."

Rage development started in like 2006 or even earlier...the rest is basic math
- Log in or register to reply
- -17 - +
rodpad #11 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Here's hoping for a direct sequel to Quake 1.
- Log in or register to reply
- +10 - +
Concrete #12 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Sod visual quality, seriously, halve the frame rate and give us 4X larger envinroments and 4X the number of enemies on screen (minimum). Have ID learnt nothing from Doom 3, we want the original gameplay back, speed running and clearing huge rooms with dozens of enemies in them!
- Log in or register to reply
- +10 - +
AphoticCosmos #13 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
The intro to Doom 3 is still superb. Love that game.
- Log in or register to reply
- +6 - +
Eraser #14 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
It's quite a stretch to assume Doom 4 will be released before Rage by Carmacks comments. The unannounced game probably is yet another iPhone port of an existing game or something.
Really poor journalism on Eurogamer's side here.

Edited by 1 at 12/08/10 @ 10:30
- Log in or register to reply
- -7 - +
BootLace #15 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Why the fuck can Eurogamer never close any quotations?
It's a standard part of English grammar for dealing with speech in paragraphs. The missing closing quote just indicates that the quotation continues into the next quoted line, as spoken by the same person.
- Log in or register to reply
- +21 - +
TeaFiend #16 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
@Siro:
Because the rules of the language are that for paragraphs of joined speech you only keep opening them, you do not close them. It is one speech.

Means you are wrong.
- Log in or register to reply
- +12 - +
nickthegun #17 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Heres hoping lessons were learned from Doom3
- Log in or register to reply
- +3 - +
mkreku #18 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
I want my mountains of bodies back! No more bodies-going-up-in-smoke a la Doom 3.
- Log in or register to reply
- +12 - +
JahB #19 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
YES PLEASE!
- Log in or register to reply
- +2 - +
Galathorn #20 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
HELL yeah!
- Log in or register to reply
- +2 - +
muttler #21 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
I'd be really excited by either Doom 4 or Quake 5. It's probably Doom 4. Together with Killzone 3, most anticipated fps for me, far more than Reach.
- Log in or register to reply
- -2 - +
Der_tolle_Emil #22 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
ID can keep it if it's anything like Doom 3. I want the frantic gameplay from Doom and Doom 2 back
- Log in or register to reply
- +4 - +
darkmorgado #23 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
@the_dudefather

That comic never gets old :-D
- Log in or register to reply
- +2 - +
ybfelix #24 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
@the_dudefather: That.. I am speechless, how is one capable of writing and publish such a work? Oh the humanity!
- Log in or register to reply
- +3 - +
geeza2020 #25 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
I didn't mind the darkness and spooky feel of Doom 3, but as others have said, I want loads of enemies to blast!!
- Log in or register to reply
- +3 - +
Haloboy #26 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Now this is the game I've been waiting for.
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
space_ace #27 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
yes, please. (though it's certainly a misunderstanding: not earlier release, but a shorter dev time)
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
lordofthedunce #28 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Nice. The engine for Rage looks horny, I hope this is using it too
- Log in or register to reply
- +2 - +
Negotiator #29 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
How about getting Rage out the door first.
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
FogHeart #30 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
- Spaceship environments
- Darkness
- Monsters
- Weapons
- Occasional Satanic references
- Heavy metal soundtrack
- Audio logs
- Knowing that picking up this nice item will open a dozen doors with enemies
- Highly moddable (something that always deserves a bump up in review scores, makes replayability much higher, and can even eliminate any quibbles people have with the original game)
- Ellie invariably expressing disdain for shooting space monsters in the face in the end of year review

...

- Optionally, but hopefully, a fresh idea or two.
- Log in or register to reply
- +6 - +
Malek86 #31 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Quake 5 please. Make it more like the first one.
- Log in or register to reply
- +13 - +
himynameisnathan #32 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
There's going to be a good few years for PC gamers

Edited by 1 at 12/08/10 @ 11:25
- Log in or register to reply
- +5 - +
Sonic_D #33 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
What's the last game id released and when? I agree with comments regarding Doom 4 and it being more in line with the first two.
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +
bad09 #34 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
I'm happy people here are saying make a new Quake like the original Quake got rubbish when it went all space marines. the first had a wonderful weird gameworld that I sorely missed when 2 came along and sadly I never saw that world again
- Log in or register to reply
- +9 - +
teabagger #35 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Doom 3 was extremely 'meh' so here's hoping that 4 is back to 'awesome'.
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
_LarZen_ #36 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Hope Doom 4 wil scare the crap out of me...
- Log in or register to reply
- +3 - +
Eraysor #37 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
cannot wait, Doom 3 was glorious!

And I agree with everyone saying Quake 1 was the best, it was nice and original and then they went and ruined it with Quake 2.

Edited by 1 at 12/08/10 @ 12:14
- Log in or register to reply
- +8 - +
footle #38 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Shame you haven't managed to change the article reference in the address!
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +
cw- #39 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Quake 3 (MP) was the best !
- Log in or register to reply
- +4 - +
makeamazing #40 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
I enjoyed Doom 3, the only thing i didnt like was the walk into an area and baddies appear behind you type situation, in a place you had just walked past. But other than that, i thought it was very good. Doom4 would be great
- Log in or register to reply
- +8 - +
TadejVig #41 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Oh my god yes. Doom 4, Rage PLUS nother ID game? Can't wait, I always loved ID

I think that Doom 3 was quite good, it was scary but it kept the fast paced action from the earlier games, but not as much as it isn't really that attractive to most gamers anymore, because FPS games evolved from that mechanics.
And Rage is also one of the most anticipated games of 2011 for me, and no it does not copy Borderlands (which was a crappy game btw).

As for the new game... hmmm, I would love Quake 5, a new Comander Keen... maybe a RPG game from them? Or a whole new IP... Ahhhh. Can't wait.
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
Der_tolle_Emil #42 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
In what way has Doom 3 ever kept the fast paced action of the first games with a maximum of two enemies in the same room?!
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
metalangel #43 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
@link'sdad: higher fidelity graphics are easy, the game is set in pitch blackness again so you can't see anything. But they ARE there, honest!
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
mkreku #44 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
@TadejVig: I'm also looking forward to Rage with great anticipation, but.. calling Borderlands "crappy" is just wrong!
- Log in or register to reply
- +1 - +
Seehuusen #45 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Quit that fucking doom stuff. i want a new quake on the rage engine !
- Log in or register to reply
- -1 - +
TitusCrow #46 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
hmm.. 30fps locked? is this on pc's? That's a bit thick! I'm sure I and many others who love doom have pc's ( or would upgrade if need be ) to get the kind of visual fidelity at the frame rate we need. I personally don't like to go under 60-80fps and I feel games suffer if this happens.

By all means have this lock for consoles but it would be crazy to foist it onto PC as so many people have different spec of computer.

I am looking forward to both games though... right up my street these.
- Log in or register to reply
- -1 - +
TadejVig #47 2 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
[link url=ht tp://xbox360.ign.com/articles/111/1112029p1.html
]http://xb ox360.ign.com/articles/111/1112...[/link]

:/

No Doom 4 for us this year.
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +