To celebrate Wolfenstein 3D‘s 20th anniversary, here’s a video of programmer John Carmack playing and talking his way through the 1992 first-person shooter.
A lot has changed since the days when web developers relied almost exclusively on Flash for media-rich interactive content. Although the technology is still very much alive and may not see a replacement anytime soon for certain uses, more and more websites are implementing HTML5 for streaming audio and video, and we are also starting to see some applications in the gaming space.
Back in 1992, id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, a title that ushered in an entirely new genre and showed developers and gamers just how immersive and visceral a video game could be. Two decades later comes Rage.
In some ways, LittleBigPlanet 2 is bloody terrifying. A couple of months back we saw how a user managed to recreate Flower using the new tools in the LBP2 beta. Now, incredibly, it’s the turn of FPS Grandaddy Wolfenstein 3D!
For years now, video games have been divided into two categories: 2D and 3D. With the advent of 3D televisions and portable consoles, those definitions might be antiquated. Time for an update!
