id software
id – defined by Freud as the primal section of the human psyche; id Software, located in Mesquite, Texas, was founded in 1991. From inception to present day, id Software has relentlessly provided technical, design and artistic leadership as an independent game developer and technology provider. Transcending the games industry, id’s iconic brands such as Wolfenstein, DOOM, QUAKE and Enemy Territory have become staples of popular culture for generations of gamers.
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COVID-19 halts plans for 25th anniversary celebration
Doom Eternal: Critical Consensus
Id Software's latest shows brilliance in its bombast, but dabbles in platforming and world building with less success
The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: The (Doom) Eternal cycle of crunch
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Id Software was "crunching pretty hard most of last year" on Doom Eternal
But studio confident that four-month delay has made upcoming shooter the "best game we've ever made"
Tim Willits: Recapturing the emotional core of Doom
Saber Interactive CCO and former id Software studio director talks about building games off one awesome thing
id Software pushes back game launch into packed Q1 "to live up to our standards of speed and polish"; Switch version postponed further
Doom Eternal's Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin talk about their approach to following up the successful reboot of a seminal classic
Tim Willits joins Saber Interactive
Former id Software studio director becomes chief creative officer for World War Z developer
Bethesda missteps mar Doom re-releases
Errors result in mandatory Bethesda.net account and log-in, owners of Xbox 360 Doom and Doom II unable to re-download games
Tim Willits leaving id Software
Studio director will end his decades-long run with the company after next week's QuakeCon
Bethesda, id Software and Avalanche Studios team up for a potentially brilliant shooter adrift in a largely pointless open-world
id Software: Avoiding cannibalization in the post-apocalypse
Tim Willits on the role of Fallout 76 in Rage 2's pre-E3 reveal, and why id no longer uses its tech to sell its games
Bethesda calls in Just Cause studio Avalanche to co-develop Rage 2
Original developer id Software still involved, but not-so-surprise sequel will also benefit from Mad Max team
id Software opens German studio
Doom maker assembling technology development team in Frankfurt to work on "best-in-class" FPS engine
Crytek engineer joins id Software
Tiago Sousa leaves Crysis studio after ten years
Carmack: I left id because I couldn't work on VR
Founder wanted to bring Wolfenstein, Doom 4 to Oculus Rift
John Carmack resigns from id Software
Co-founder of Doom developer severs ties in order to focus full-time on Oculus VR CTO position
Former id creative director joins Oculus VR
Matt Hooper joins John Carmack to work on Oculus Rift
id Software co-founder announced as Rift maker's new full-time CTO; id says Carmack's technical leadership at studio "unaffected"
Carmack criticises "fundamentally poor" Kinect interactions
id Software co-founder still has problems despite hardware improvements
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