Alec Meer
Contributor, GamesIndustry.biz

26/08/2010 @ 07:00

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id's Tim Willits

id Software was one of the giants amongst independent developers – a company that publishers went to, rather than vice-versa. The Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake franchises are part of the fabric of gaming history: this was a studio that, surely, could do anything it wanted. So it came as a shock when, in June 2009, id was acquired by Zenimax Media. id's near future plans – the release of new IP Rage and a third sequel to Doom – appeared unaffected, but earlier this month the studio confirmed it would no longer be licensing its engine to other developers.

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