I’m sitting in the reception area, giant Smarties cookie in hand, waiting for my turn to interview the creative director of id Software, Tim Willits. The cookie is for Mr Willits, who turns 40 on the day of our interview. While I’ve come prepared with the obligatory list of questions about his new game, RAGE, there’s something else I’m curious about, but I’m not sure how to ask without seeming impolite. So when it comes time for my interview, I hand over the Smarties cookie and hope that a delicious biscuit will guide the way.
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.
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 (overclocked), 4GB RAM and a couple of GTX580 cards with a 1.5GB of onboard RAM in SLI.
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.
According to a surprised American 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]
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.
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.
