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Carmack: Working With Apple Is A Rollercoaster Ride

2:00AM Brian Crecente | John Carmack has a long history working with Apple on gaming products, not all of it positive. More »
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id: Probably No Dedicated Servers For Rage

2:00PM Owen Good | id Software’s John Carmack is mindful of the anger over Modern Warfare 2 dropping dedicated server support. That’s why he’s glad Infinity Ward is going first, because he plans to do the same thing with Rage. More »
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Carmack On iPhone Fallout, Quake Live, Elves And Orcs

3:00AM Brian Crecente | What started on a lark, playing around with an operating system that would allow Doom creator John Carmack to quickly produce portables games, has become a thriving business, the famed developer tells Kotaku. More »
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Doom Classic Now On iPhone

5:00AM Brian Crecente | In case you missed it, Doom Classic is now available in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. More »
Culture

John Carmack Builds Another Spaceship, Could Win $1 Million

1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Armadillo Aerospace—the company founded and owned by id boss and Doom co-creator John Carmack—has a good chance of winning itself $US1,000,000 after taking out NASA’s lunar lander challenge. More »
Culture

John Carmack And The Hideo Kojima Sunset

3:40AM Stephen Totilo | Famed Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima once told me that there was something beautiful he’d been striving his whole career to create in video games: the perfect sunset. I recently asked John Carmack what his sunset is. More »
Features

John Carmack OK With id Not Becoming An Epic Or Valve

9:00AM Stephen Totilo | John Carmack said he’s the reason id Software didn’t become more like Epic. He doesn’t regret his company’s graphics tech no longer being a go-to system for the industry. More »
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Carmack: Quake Live Needs User-Paid Component

10:30AM Stephen Totilo | Programmer extraordinaire John Carmack threw cold water earlier this week on the idea that id’s popular free shooter can survive without charging some users something. More »
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Id Working On Three Lines Of IPhone Games, One Potentially Rage-Themed

9:40AM Brian Crecente | id Software’s interest in iPhone games may have started out with the the company testing the waters, but moving forward the company plans to develop three lines of games for the platform. More »
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Doom Creator On Whether New PlayStation Or Xbox Will Be First

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | You know John Carmack. He’s the programming wizard responsible for games like Doom. You know what John Carmack thinks? More »