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Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax Media has announced the acquisition of id Software, the developer responsible for Doom, Quake and soon Rage.
No changes will be made to the operations of id Software and the development of its games, according ZeniMax. And all the key figures, such as John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead, will remain in place.
"This puts id Software in a wonderful position going forward. We will now be able to grow and extend all of our franchises under one roof, leveraging our capabilities across multiple teams while enabling forward looking research to be done in the service of all of them," said John Carmack, a human robot.
"We will be bigger and stronger, as we recruit the best talent to help us build the landmark games of the future. As trite as it may be for me to say that I am extremely pleased and excited about this deal, I am."
Rage is in development for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 and will arrive presumably next year.
We'll find out more at QuakeCon 2009, which takes place from 13th to 16th August.
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Psychotext
24/06/09 @ 16:00
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Big news. I wonder what other buyouts and mergers we'll see over the next year.
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Jonathan_Fakenham
24/06/09 @ 16:01
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Rage / ID Tech 5 engine for Fallout 4?
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kangarootoo
24/06/09 @ 16:09
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"id haven't released a good game since Quake 1. Discuss."
Quake 3 was regarded by many as the top flight twitch-FPS experience of its time. |
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Jonathan_Fakenham
24/06/09 @ 16:10
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Yeah, but Rage is definately their most interesting project since Quake though. It looks like it'll be pretty awesome.
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Wtf, this is something I wasn't expecting. Are they going to make Quake RPG now?
"id haven't released a good game since Quake 1. Discuss. " Quake 2 would like to have a word with you. Also, Quake 3 was pretty good (though not on par with the first two games). Everything else after those kinda sucked tho, I'll admit. Doom 3 was just boring, Quake 4 was slightly better but still no cigar. |
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Mentalist(air)
24/06/09 @ 16:14
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id haven't released a good game since Quake 1. Discuss.
I was going to argue that, but I am struggling a bit. I never played Quake 2 - it fell between two stools in terms of me having a mchine capable of playing it at the time. I'm not sure it Return to Castle Wolfenstein counts. Certainly they have produced engines that have supported truly great games, although not really since iD Tech 3. |
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@BiscuitBase
as pointed out, Quake 3 still stands as the unsurpassed bar of competitive, twitch-based FPS. and needless to say, the fact that id released it as a free-to-play browser game is pretty awesome and makes me wish more developers would do that (just think of lucasarts doing that for their old adventure games). edit: wrong@
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superdelphinus
24/06/09 @ 16:20
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playing doom 3 was the best thing i've ever done, including have sex with a donkey
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AphoticCosmos
24/06/09 @ 16:46
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Wow! Err, didn't see that one coming!
I hope that good things come from it. |
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onyx_elite
24/06/09 @ 17:34
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They haven't made a good Quake game since Quake 1. I thought Doom3 was alright as a single-player experience tho.
*ducks* |
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I wonder how much id actually cost.
@BiscuitBase apparently, people don't discuss about that any more, since they now have the option to rate down your comment... dunno why. I rated it up, thought it was funny :) edit: wow, I got voted down, for wondering how much id cost.
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This is incompetent journalism. Did Robert Purchese even read what says in the article instead of copy and paste what other sites are also reporting???
"Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax Media has announced the acquisition of id Software" It's the first sentence, for f***s sake. ZENIMAX bought id, not Bethesda.
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I didn't see this one coming! Well, if John Carmack is happy with it, so are we. I guess...
It seems pretty extrange, id has always seemed so independent, doing whatever they liked (good 3d tech and corridor fps) no matter how famous the competence became (halo, cod, etc.). If someone told me this yesterday I just wouldn't have believed it... |
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clockworkzombie
24/06/09 @ 21:33
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playing doom 3 was the best thing i've ever done, including have sex with a donkey
A pair of asses together at last. |
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curtlikesmeat
24/06/09 @ 21:48
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onyx_elite - I agree with you, I really enjoyed Doom 3 despite the fact that it wasn't that well received. I thought it was fairly tense and played almost like a survival horror (which I guess isn't what most people were expecting, and why it probably didn't go down that well).
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Mentalist(air)
25/06/09 @ 08:43
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Oh, my god there's an italic on the loose!
Who can save us? Oh, wait, it's gone away.
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