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Doom Is Back Up On Xbox Live

1:30PM January 19, 2012 | Owen Good

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). More »

News

Doom Developers Hit With Layoffs

2:39PM January 11, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

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

In Real Life

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

2:00AM October 27, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

News

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

3:30PM October 21, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

News

Rage Creators Weren’t Prepared For Tough Questions

10:30AM October 19, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

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. More »

PC

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

4:30PM October 10, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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? More »

News

RAGE Has Been A Long, Long Time Coming

7:30PM October 4, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

It’s not every day you get to play a new id game. If you’re not counting iPhone games (and we’re not counting iPhone games) or re-releases, the last new title the studio released was Doom 3. And that was in 2004. More »

PC

Todd Hollenshead Explains Why Quake Live Isn’t A Success Yet

4:40AM August 11, 2011 | Max Abrams

Quake Live is a browser based free-to-play version of the classic FPS Quake III Arena that has been out of beta for a year. In a recent interview with VG24/7 id CEO Todd Hollenshead discussed what hasn’t gone right. More »

PC

Live From QuakeCon, A Rage Playthrough Liveblog

3:30AM August 6, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Hello, eerbody! I’m in Dallas, Texas, at QuakeCon, about to have my first play time with id Software’s new marquee title, Rage. I hope to write up impressions later, but I thought you might enjoy seeing my notes live as I play. More »

Mobile

Rage HD Will Go Free If You Like Rage Enough

5:21AM August 5, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Bethesda said today that once the RAGE Facebook page reaches 100,000 “Likes”, RAGE HD for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch will be available for free for one week. Like them on Facebook.