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• \m/ Keefer : EricZBA
• Very nice info John good stuff, looking forward to your VR article later on. Any chance you can gank a... : valcan_s
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  Reading between the lines, it doesn't sound like Carmack is pleased with some of Bethesda's policies and ... : David Craddock
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    Carmack Leaves id Software, forms new independent development studio with John Romero : freakynipples69
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        sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss... : shirif
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          Purchased by EA : daggertx
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            nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo : Ride-My-Rocket
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              exclusive doom 4 on origin! : the if
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                Day 1 DLC - 20 new Monster Closets! : g3dHorse
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                  Carmack retires from game development, launches himself...TO THE MOON! : freakynipples69
                  • Discovers that dust from the Moon can somehow be digested, leading to much energy - returns back to Earth : humbleone
    • ...And calls it Eye-Dee Software : hanged_man
    • That would be terrible. : r_picmip 5
    • *throws up in mouth a little* : Firefly1985
    • 0h, gawd, yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! : CrustaR
    • They should call it: ego Software LLC. : pigvomit
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      Both of them were at their best together, and neither has worked on a game I've enjoyed since. : Vincent Grayson
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        Agreed. : CrustaR
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          vincent, crustar, how come you guys didnt like quake 3? : jujubeads
          • No SP campaign. Quake 1 was also the better DM game (partially because of Romero's input!). : CrustaR
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        Weird, I thought Quake3 was pretty universally loved. : ovrlrd
        • Nope. UT is best. : freakynipples69
    • O_O I would give them all of my moneys. : uebersoldat
    • All I gotta say is ...Q1DM3 : creeping-death
    • Will never happen. : Fred Garvin
    • Fuck no. : eskimo spy
    • Would be so awesome : WhiskeyFist
  • He probably can't leave due to buyout contract stipulations, but yeah, it seems insane that you have a hu... : cptincognito
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  I'm no PR Professional, but whole 'Bethesda Mode' thing doesn't seem like very smart marketing. Muzzling ... : cptincognito
  • Carmack might be a little *too* all over the place. Obviously he's brilliant, but I don't think they want... : FlatlineDixay
  • Carmack is used to being independent for years. I guess he 's not used to go with all the pr from HQ. : yosan
  • It's better than how we were beaten over the head with Rage footage for soooo long and it ended up bad. : kingdepork
  • Maybe he should work @ Valve, though I doubt that he'd be willing to rellocate. : shirif
  • At least he didn't call it "3D Realms mode" : jimvolk
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  If Linux and Mac got some dev tools that made it easier to write cross-platform code, things could get re... : FlatlineDixay
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    The only thing holding back Linux and OSX gaming is graphics card drivers. As he said in the keynote, if ... : cptincognito
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      I can't listen to the keynote at work yet, but that's an interesting claim. You'd think that it wouldn't ... : FlatlineDixay
      • An id or Epic engine is always going to try to be bleeding edge, which is where the graphics drivers are ... : cptincognito
      • Nvidia have drivers that are fine as far as general use goes. They're obviously close source and the perf : Conan
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    people would boot into linux to play a game? or they would switch over entirely to linux if some of their... : spiderfill
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      I would absolutely boot into Linux if there were no compatibility issues with gaming. That's basically th... : FlatlineDixay
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        im picturing my steam library and thinking oh i want to play game X but i need to boot into my other OS f... : spiderfill
        • Well, it's definitely trouble if you have to reboot for a single game, I agree with that. I also think th... : FlatlineDixay
    • if i had a good chunk of my games working in linux, i wouldn't have a reason to boot into windows : harold.johnson
    • I would use linux 100% of the time if I could play games on it. : TheNiXXeD
    • I would like to make the full on jump to Linux. The problem for me is there is a whole host of other sof... : Peanut Fox
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  so is it i - d software, or id software, like ehd? : xxiv
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    id, like did Or like the concept of the id. : Ebu
    • gracias ebu : xxiv
  • pronounce the "i" like the word "irrelevant" : spiderfill
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  It'll be interesting to see what happens with his "VR" Goggles... : limpossible
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    Far as I can tell, he's not working on the hardware anymore. He stopped working on that when the Oculus R... : FlatlineDixay
    • Oh gotcha. I thought Carmack was the man behind Oculus Rift. That clears things up a bit. : limpossible
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  So... don't ask questions about Doom 4... not allowed to talk about next generation consoles... is there... : Gwyndion
  • The game is at least a year and a half away, which is close enough to the presumed launch of next gen tha... : cptincognito
• I await what you have to say about demonstration with the Oculus goggles. : ant_hillbilly
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  Anyone have a link to the keynote? : humbleone
  • bump : humbleone
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk : humbleone
• Would rather have "Build Engine" mode : asianwaste
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  God damn it, Bethesda, shutting down id's mobile efforts. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • mobile fpses are basically aids anyway : arioch