Two of id’s recent iPhone releases can now be had for cheap, with Wolfenstein 3D marked down to $US0.99 and Doom Resurrection marked down to $US2.99.

If you consider that to be appropriate pricing for an iPhone game, then you’d better make those purchases snappy. Those mark downs will only last as long as QuakeCon does. It’s all over Sunday.

id’s other new iPhone release, Wolfenstein RPG, can be had at the regular price of $US4.99, if your pockets go a little deeper.

Keep an eye on the QuakeCon liveblog for more exciting news than this.

Okay, so it might not be THE Castle Wolfenstein, but it’s a castle in Activision’s upcoming Wolfenstein game, so we’re running with it.

Wolfenstein is, of course, another prequel to the game that started it all, Wolfenstein 3D. It may seem funny, this game being set before that relatively primitive example of 3D technology, but when you think about it it makes sense. Towards the end of World War 2, Germany had all but depleted their supply of polygons, and had to revert to pixels. True story.

Now that Hitler is dead, it’s time to backtrack, stealing the Spear of Destiny back from the Nazi’s in part two of Activision’s Wolfenstein animated graphic novel series.

I had almost forgotten that Spear of Destiny was a prequel to Wolfenstein 3D, but I suppose it makes sense. Once you kill Robo-Hitler you can pretty much retire. No need to move on after that. Instead, we get a look at one of William “B.J.” Blazkowicz’s earlier adventures, in which he takes on a less daunting opponent – the angel of death.

All 60 levels of Wolfenstein 3D will be hitting both consoles on June 4th, giving gamers something more constructive to do than refreshing gaming websites for the latest news out of E3. And while the original Wolfenstein 3D might not be as fun to play today as it was when it was originally released back in 1992, but Activision has included plenty of incentive take on Mecha-Hitler one more time. Perhaps taking a cue from the Fable II Pub Games, playing through Wolfenstein 3D on your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 will earn you accolades and gold to pay for weapons upgrades in Wolfenstein, the next chapter in the series due out August 4. Very sneaky.

There’s no mention of any upgrades to the game, so it looks like it’s a straight port, and there’s no mention of a price either, so we’re just going to have to wait and see what’s announced between now and next week.

No press releases, no bullet points touting potentially upgraded HD graphics, no mention of screen borders for the 1992 classic. Just a product page, with no release date, from which we can at least glean the fact there’ll be no multiplayer.

Wolfenstein 3D [Xbox]

I know I could have spent a lot more time playing and a lot less building if I’d had a tool like Oblige. It randomly generates maps for a variety of games based on the Wolf 3D/Doom engine. These include Heretic and Hexen, among others.

Wait, weren’t these games made in *gasp* the 1990s? Yes, they were, but I don’t see anything wrong with a bit of nostalgia every now and then.

As far as settings go, you can input a seed (for the random number generator), the game type, and values for monsters, health and weapons. You can even select between single-player, co-op and deathmatch modes. Doom 2 is the best supported, with Wolfenstein 3D being the worst. Doom, Heretic and Hexen are decent.

If you can scrounge up a copy of one of these games, I suggest you give Oblige a whirl. You might be surprised by the results.

Oblige [SourceForge, via Blue's News]