Doom 3 remastered with BFG Edition for PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Doom 3 is being remastered for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the BFG Edition, announced today. It packs a jazzed-up Doom 3, its expansion, a new seven-level mission, the first two Doom games, and changes including... an armour-mounted flashlight!
READ MORE >Doom returns to XBLA today
Over a year after Doom was pulled from Xbox Live Arcade due to the rights expiring, the console port of id Software's seminal shooter is returning.
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see all 19 commentsDoom 3 engine goes open-source
id Software has now released the engine source code for Doom 3 under a GPL3 license, letting all and sundry get their hands dirty and bend it to their will. Let the coding commence!
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see all 5 commentsDoom 3 open-sourcing held up while Carmack writes new code
Chief id Software technomancer John Carmack is now writing new Doom 3 code to dodge legal issues surrounding the rendering technique which gave Doom 3 its lovely shadows, so the engine can be open-sourced.
READ MORE >"That is what I would like to know, I put the game on hold when it was anounced thinking the ..."
see all 10 commentsDoom 3 source code will be released after Rage
id Software's plans to release the Doom 3 source code after Rage launches are still on, and now have the approval of parent company ZeniMax, id's technical wizard John Carmack revealed at QuakeCon.
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see all 15 commentsQuakeCon old forums hacked; id retrospective panel announced
There's good QuakeCon news, and there's bad QuakeCon news. First, the bad: the old QCon forums have been hacked and passwords compromised. But the good: QuakeCon 2011 will gather venerated id veterans to tell stories in a '20 Years of id Software' panel.
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"When was the last id title that took off as a MP title though? Q3A?"
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