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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 »

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 »

Live At QuakeCon 2009: Doom II, Quake Live For XBLA

3:58AM Stephen Totilo | Among the towers, the PC accessories, the Galaga spaceships was a bit of early news perhaps including a glimpse at Doom II and Quake Live for the Xbox 360’s Live Arcade. More »

Reader Review: Quake Live

3:00PM David Wildgoose | Do you have what it takes to get a review published right here on Kotaku? Ben does, as he circle strafes around the browser-based Quake Live. More »

QuakeCon 2009 Is Going To The Gaylord

5:40AM Michael McWhertor | id Software’s annual gathering of Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein fans will happen August 13th to August 16th. And it will happen at a new location, the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. More »

id Considering Enemy Territory For Quake Live Treatment

12:00AM Brian Crecente | Quake Live’s open beta is blowing away id Software’s expectations, so much so the developer is considering working on a free, web browser version of Quake Enemy Territories, said id’s Todd Hollenshead. More »

Don’t Plan On Playing Quake Live Just Yet

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | How live is Quake Live? So Live. But just because it’s live doesn’t mean you can play it. You can register, sure, but after that, you gotta get in line. More »

How Live Is Quake Live? So, So Live

10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Chomping at the bit to play the Quake Live beta? Well, chomp no more, as “the most exciting and energetic multiplayer game on the internet” has gone public, giving Quake aficionados free beta access. More »

Quake Live Open Beta Next Week

3:00AM Mike Fahey | ID Software’s browser-based competitive version of the classic first-person shooter Quake is nearly ready for the public, with the Quake Live open beta kicking off next week. More »

Hollenshead: E3 Was Pretty Much a Disappointment to Everyone

7:00AM Brian Crecente | “E3 this year, in my opinion, it was pretty much disappointing to everybody” id CEO Todd Hollenshead told me early today during an interview. “The press were disappointed, the people I talked to in the industry are disappointed, almost everyone agree that that was the wrong way to do it”. It’s too early to tell if the shrinking E3 has helped bolster id’s own id-centric annual show QuakeCon. Usually id Software waits until the Saturday of the show to get official attendance numbers. But Hollenshead is already sure that QuakeCon is the right way to host a gaming conference. “I think we struck a balance of being vendor supported and still being in touch with the gamers”, he said. “We had over 6,000 hours of volunteer time, that’s like the polar opposite of E3,. which is all about business”. In fact id Software only officially showed up at E3 as a single announcement during the Electronic Arts press conference. They were there to tell the world that EA would be publishing their upcoming id Tech 5 game, Rage. And even that had to be modified to fit in with what E3 and its attendees expect from the show. “We were told you can’t show this stuff because of these five reasons”, Hollenshead said. “Last night (during QuakeCon) we had the bigger, better, more hardcore, not suitable for investor conference (announcement) for Rage and Doom”. [Pic] More »