Rooting through paperwork, a NeoGAF poster found three trademark filings by ZeniMax Media, parent of Bethesda Softworks, maker of Fallout: New Vegas. One corresponds to a name from a graffiti file (pictured) like one that tipped off December’s “Dead Money” DLC.
While You Were Sleeping was a well-received romantic comedy starring the luminous Sandra Bullock and the irrepressible Bill Pullman.
It’s also the name of a regular section here at Kotaku, where we round up all the best news coming in overnight, to save you trawling down the page for an excuse to not start work. Don’t say we’re not good to you!
The studio behind Chronicles of Riddick is working on a new “AAA title for gamers” using the technology behind upcoming titles Rage, Doom 4 and Quake, Zenimax said today.
Tango Gameworks, the new studio headed up by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, has just been bought by Zenimax Media, the firm which also owns Oblivion developers Bethesda and Doom creators id.
You can now pick up a copy of Doom II RPG for your iPhone or iPod Touch for $5.
A takedown notice sent by ZeniMax led to the Android Store’s removal of several ports of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein; one of the developers admits that, though the port used open-source Doom code, some of the game files were proprietary.
When Oblivion and Doom meet, the Fallout is bound to yield surprises; and perhaps offer some insight into the future of the video game industry.
In an interview with Kotaku, id’s John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead explained how changing circumstances with Activision and other studios spurred id’s sale to Bethesda parent ZeniMax.
