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PC

Seems Like Doom Might Have Inspired Valve To Build Steam

It’s common knowledge that Gabe Newell used to work at Microsoft, right? In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, the Valve CEO discusses learning that the first Doom outranked Windows as the most used software application:

March 10, 2012
PC

How Rage’s Blurry Textures Tried To Push The Envelope Of 3D Gaming

Kotaku AU

Five months is a long time in the games industry. Rage, released in October of last year, already feels like a relic of another age. After a rocky launch, and a so-so patch aimed at PC gamers, there hasn’t been much else to talk about regarding id’s shooter of mixed acclaim.

March 1, 2012
PC

Looks Like These Are More Doom 4 Images

Yesterday, a grip of alleged Doom 4 screenshots surfaced on the internet, depicting earth being torn apart by the forces of hell.

February 29, 2012
News

Are These Doom 4 Screenshots?

These images, supposedly from Doom 4, have popped up. It seems they were inadvertently spilled by the portfolio of artist Thao Le.

January 19, 2012
PC

Doom Is Back Up On Xbox Live

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).

January 11, 2012
News

Doom Developers Hit With Layoffs

An “undisclosed number” of staff at Doom and RAGE developers id Software have been let go. [Gamasutra]

October 27, 2011
In Real Life

The Ladies, Mutants, Busted Old Cars Of RAGE’s Wasteland

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.

October 21, 2011
News

Doom 4 "Indefinitely Postponed" Following RAGE’s Disappointing Launch

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.

October 19, 2011
News

Rage Creators Weren’t Prepared For Tough Questions

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.

October 10, 2011
PC

RAGE’s PC Version Has Been Updated, Might Be Better Now

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?

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