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http://www.bethsoft.com/id.htm

Bloody hell. I never, ever thought I would live to see news like that.

If you were that sure, you should perhaps check that you're not dead.

FFS and now all of a sudden the release of Wolfenstein has slipped to Aug 13th.

Bastards, they could have released that first lol.

Note that it's Zennimax - Bethesda's owners - who have bought id. Bethesda have been very praising of their working relationship with Zennimax, who are apparently happy to have close to zero say in day-to-day operations whilst doing legwork for stuff like acquiring the Fallout rights.

Also, both Rage and Wolfenstein have publisher deals in place (I can't remember who with) and those deals will remain, so Zennimax won't be handling either title.

2 things

1) The whole point of id, is that they did their own thing based on their vision.

2) id's vision has lost gaming focus and been more about the tech since John Romero left, so it's no biggy any way.

Malc

id haven't done anything of note for years any way

Let's face it, we're looking back at Quake 2 since they really blew us away. Quake III was good from an online point of view, but only really because it was so incredibly popular and balanced, plus it had no single player mode to speak of barring fighting bots. Doom 3 was dog shit, and the only other decent games with their name on: Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory weren't even developed by them!

Oh, and they're not even developing the new Wolfenstein either... It's primarily done by Raven Software, id just put their name on it. Raven Software did Quake 4, so I'm not holding my breath.

Oh absolutely, Doom 3 was a bit poo (it did look lovely though).

Imagine a FO3 type Doom game? that would be frickin awesome. Doing deals for caps with the devil haha.

"Ten for that? you must be mad !"

Yeah, id always made a great tech but it was other people building on that tech that made it amazing. You look at the Quake Engine - yeah, pretty cool, but Quake itself remains the world's brownest game (despite significant attempts by Gears of War and Fallout 3 to topple it). Then you have stuff like SiN and Half-Life which pushed the tech further and also made non-brown textures so things would look nice.