So you’ve opened that new present you’ve been waiting for all year – a brand new shiny (or perhaps, hand-me-down) iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. No doubt your loved ones scrimped and saved and pooled their money for this revolutionary and/or magical device. Now what to put on it? If you’ve got an iPad, Virgin [...]
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Let Off Some Steam, Quakecon Sale
From August 12 to 15 it’s QuakeCon, the Woodstock of gaming, so to celebrate Valve are holding a Steam sale on all Bethesda Softworks and id Software titles. The jewel of the sale is the 27 game Quakecon 2010 pack including titles such as Fallout 3: GotY, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Doom 3 and Commander Keen. [...]
Zenimax Media Acquires Arkane Studios
Zenimax media, parent company of id Software and Bethesda, has acquired Bioshock 2 developer Arkane Studios. The acquisition was announced by id Software president Todd Hollenshead and chief technical officer John Carmack. Arkane is currently based in Lyon, France. Along with announcing the acquisition, Hellenshead said that Arkane was currently at work on an unnamed [...]
Quake Live Goes Live
Dallas-based id Software has just sent live its long awaited browser-based first-person-shooter, Quake Live, via the game’s website. The release comes just in time for QuakeCon next week, one of the largest gaming conventions in the country and one with a heavy emphasis on actually gaming (with a phenomenally successful BYOPC section). QuakeCon runs from August [...]
Id Software Acquired By Bethesda Parent ZeniMax Media
Id Software, developers of Doom, Quake and the upcoming Rage have been acquired by Bethesda Softworks’ parent company ZeniMax Media. The deal means that Bethesda will now publish all future id Software titles which have yet to be signed to other publishers, with Electronic Arts retaining the publishing rights to id’s upcoming title Rage. The acquisition [...]
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