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It's an ambiguous quote, but it also has large implications for what Bethesda has in store for the future. In a recent episode of the OXM Podcast , company vice-president Pete Hines said, "I think you'll hear us making considerably more noise this year than we did last year, as a publisher... More

What is the one thing Half-Life 2 has been missing all these years? Doom's weapons and enemies, of course. The video below comes from YouTube user GhorsHammer who added Doom's weapons and enemies to Gordon Freeman's world using the always entertaining Garry's Mod. Freeman is used to fighting... More

John Romero, famed id Software developer who had an important hand in projects like Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake, is cooking up something at Square Enix. We have no idea what he is working on, but according to his official Facebook account, he's doing something at Square Enix. He posted a status... More

The Cacodemon from Doom is an oddly shaped circular beast that doesn't seem like it would lend itself to Legos, but Bart De Dobbelaer went for it anyway. In Doom 2's instruction booklet, this is how the Cacodemon is described: "They float in the air, belch ball-lightning, and boast one Hell... More

Bethesda announced that an enhanced version of Doom 3 would be coming this fall, but they didn't provide a release date beyond that vague time frame. That's changed, with news that the Doom 3 BFG Edition is coming this October. More specifically, the game is releasing Oct. 19 on the PC, PlayStation... More

After a three month hiatus, Bethesda today said the classic first-person shooter Doom is now available for download again on Xbox Live Arcade. In October 2011, Doom was pulled from the Marketplace store and no explanation was ever given. One theory is that Doom on Xbox Live was originally published by... More

[Update] Thanks to GI readers Garrett, Jake Hofmann, and Tyler, we now know that id's other major franchise, Quake, is also seen in a Rage Easter egg [Original Story] Yesterday, it was revealed that there was a small Wolfenstein Easter egg in id Software's latest shooter Rage. Now, it appears... More

After more than a decade since the original releases of Doom and Doom II, id's iconic shooters will finally be available to German consumers with fewer restrictions on how shops can sell them. Previously both games had been "indexed" by Germany's Federal Department for Media Harmful... More

Id Software has always been good about supporting the developer community by releasing the source code for its older games. Now as the release of id's latest title, Rage, approaches, the developer has promised that Doom 3 source code is coming. Phoronix has this happy piece of news, which comes courtesy... More

Id Software's annual QuakeCon event is a fan favorite – and we're sure a lot of fans were hoping that details on Doom 4 would be announced, but this year's festival will center around Bethesda/id games on the near horizon. Bethesda has sent out a press release with the itinerary of... More

It’s been about six years since id software touched the Doom franchise, and even longer since the studio released a numbered entry in the Quake series (2010’s Quake Arena Arcade for Xbox Live doesn’t count). Maybe it’s time that changed. Jason Kim, senior producer at id Software... More

According to Australian movie blog What’s Playing , Doom may get a second chance on the big screen. Universal is allegedly shopping around for a script writer as we speak, looking to craft a new film that will ignore the events of the 2005 movie entirely. The only other tidbit of information we’ve... More

Anyone who's read David Kusher's Masters of Doom already knows how fascinating the early days of id Software were. John Romero and Tom Hall have long ago left the company, but they reflected on the glory days of development and showed several early builds of one of the most influential games... More

Seems like Doom is on anything with a screen these days. As proof here’s a video of the game running on Texas Instrument’s TI-Nspire calculator! A few tech savvy geeks at Omnimaga have figured out how to get id’s popular shooter to run on their graphing calculators. It’s better... More

Thanks to the Bethesda Blog Twitter account , I was reminded that developer id Software was founded exactly 20 years ago today. I decided we should not only wish them happy birthday but celebrate with some memories. From Wolfenstein to Doom to Quake -- and hopefully with the upcoming Rage as well --... More

Even though he doesn't have time for it what with building Rage, id Software tech mastermind John Carmack told Joystiq that he has "an itch to make a Kinect title for Xbox Live." Don't worry about Rage being dumbed down to work with motion controls, though. "I can't use Kinect... More

The website GamerBytes noticed something odd about DOOM for Xbox Live Arcade. Specifically, the game is not available for download on the service anymore. This is odd, as it's been a strong seller. While no explanation was given, it's been speculated that it has to do with Bethesda Softworks'... More

Today id announced at QuakeCon that several iPhone titles from id Mobile will be on sale from Thursday, August 12 through Sunday, August 15 at the iTunes store . id fans can get the following deals from Apple's online retail service: Wolfenstein 3D Classic Platinum $.99 (was $1.99) DOOM Classic ... More

Just as with Hollywood, the award season is once again upon us. The next event looming on the horizon is the 2010 Game Developer Choice Awards, integrated into the annual Game Developers Conference. Event details are starting to come to light, including the recipient of the coveted Lifetime Achievement... More

ZeniMax Media, the parent company of id Software, has filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint with Google requesting the removal of all unauthorized Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein games. Android developer L!th!um confirmed the move with website AndroidAndMe.com : "Some of you may have noticed... More