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Mick Gordon accuses Doom Eternal executive producer of lying about soundtrack problems

Composer claims that Id Software's Marty Stratton and Zenimax lawyers offered him six-figure settlement to take the blame for soundtrack fallout

Nov. 10, 2022 Jeffrey Rousseau

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QuakeCon cancels 2020 event

COVID-19 halts plans for 25th anniversary celebration

March 31, 2020 Rebekah Valentine

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Doom Eternal: Critical Consensus

Id Software's latest shows brilliance in its bombast, but dabbles in platforming and world building with less success

March 18, 2020 Matthew Handrahan

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The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: The (Doom) Eternal cycle of crunch

Latest episode also discusses allegations against Riot in class-action lawsuit, Paradox's subscription experiment, and tossing coins to Witchers

Jan. 27, 2020 GamesIndustry.biz Staff

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Id Software was "crunching pretty hard most of last year" on Doom Eternal

But studio confident that four-month delay has made upcoming shooter the "best game we've ever made"

Jan. 23, 2020 James Batchelor

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Tim Willits: Recapturing the emotional core of Doom

Saber Interactive CCO and former id Software studio director talks about building games off one awesome thing

Jan. 9, 2020 Ivy Taylor

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Doom Eternal delayed to March

id Software pushes back game launch into packed Q1 "to live up to our standards of speed and polish"; Switch version postponed further

Oct. 8, 2019 Brendan Sinclair

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Where do you go from Doom?

Doom Eternal's Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin talk about their approach to following up the successful reboot of a seminal classic

Sept. 17, 2019 Brendan Sinclair

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Tim Willits joins Saber Interactive

Former id Software studio director becomes chief creative officer for World War Z developer

Aug. 12, 2019 Rebekah Valentine

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Bethesda missteps mar Doom re-releases

Errors result in mandatory Bethesda.net account and log-in, owners of Xbox 360 Doom and Doom II unable to re-download games

July 29, 2019 Brendan Sinclair

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Tim Willits leaving id Software

Studio director will end his decades-long run with the company after next week's QuakeCon

July 18, 2019 Brendan Sinclair

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Critical Consensus: Rage 2

Bethesda, id Software and Avalanche Studios team up for a potentially brilliant shooter adrift in a largely pointless open-world

May 21, 2019 Matthew Handrahan

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id Software: Avoiding cannibalization in the post-apocalypse

Tim Willits on the role of Fallout 76 in Rage 2's pre-E3 reveal, and why id no longer uses its tech to sell its games

July 9, 2018 Brendan Sinclair

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Bethesda calls in Just Cause studio Avalanche to co-develop Rage 2

Original developer id Software still involved, but not-so-surprise sequel will also benefit from Mad Max team

May 15, 2018 James Batchelor

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id Software opens German studio

Doom maker assembling technology development team in Frankfurt to work on "best-in-class" FPS engine

Aug. 5, 2015 Brendan Sinclair

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Crytek engineer joins id Software

Tiago Sousa leaves Crysis studio after ten years

July 18, 2014 Rachel Weber

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Carmack: I left id because I couldn't work on VR

Founder wanted to bring Wolfenstein, Doom 4 to Oculus Rift

Feb. 5, 2014 Dan Pearson

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John Carmack resigns from id Software

Co-founder of Doom developer severs ties in order to focus full-time on Oculus VR CTO position

Nov. 22, 2013 Brendan Sinclair

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Former id creative director joins Oculus VR

Matt Hooper joins John Carmack to work on Oculus Rift

Aug. 9, 2013 Matthew Handrahan

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Carmack joins Oculus VR

id Software co-founder announced as Rift maker's new full-time CTO; id says Carmack's technical leadership at studio "unaffected"

Aug. 7, 2013 Brendan Sinclair

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Carmack criticises "fundamentally poor" Kinect interactions

id Software co-founder still has problems despite hardware improvements

Aug. 2, 2013 Matthew Handrahan

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Todd Hollenshead leaves id Software

Bethesda confirms departure of Doom developer's president "to pursue other personal interests"

June 26, 2013 Brendan Sinclair

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Doom 4 development troubled - report

Five years after id shooter sequel's announcement, sources describe complete reboot, mismanagement, talent exodus

April 3, 2013 Brendan Sinclair

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id shelves all mobile development for Doom 4

John Carmack "saddened" by retreat from mobile, several projects now on hiatus

Aug. 3, 2012 Matthew Handrahan

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Bethesda confirms redundancies at id Software

Rage developer latest to suffer layoffs

Jan. 10, 2012 Matt Martin

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