Doom 3 Creators Huddle, Address Clamoring Press

Posted by simoniker on Thursday July 22, 2004 @11:19AM from the microphones-at-the-ready dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its interview with CEO id Todd Hollenshead and Doom 3 lead designer Tim Willits, as part of a carefully orchestrated fusillade of interviews that also includes a subtly different interview at IGN and another interview at GameSpy - topics discussed include the limit on 4-player multiplayer ("I have no doubt that one of the first mods for Doom 3 to come out will be eight-player Doom 3. But it's my guess that eight-player Doom 3 will be most effectively played on LAN servers"), game pricing ("Activision has a minimum advertised price on the game at launch of $54.99; anything above that I would say is just retailers padding their margins"), and what id will do next ("Our very talented art staff has already started on the next game. Kenneth (Scott, id Software artist) is leading the team, working on some proof-of-concept stuff.")

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doom 3 to be available on aug 3rd 12:01am@bestbuy by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-22 12:37 · Score: 1, Interesting

"(Editor's Note: Activision later informed us that 10 select Best Buy stores, covering 6 markets -- Chicago, Washington D.C., Miami, Los Angeles, New York and Dallas -- will offer the game at 12:01AM on Aug 3 as part of a special midnight madness sale. We were unable to find out if any other stores will be conducting similar promotions.)"

Looks like if there's a Best Buy near you, you'll be able to pick up Doom 3 faster than anyone else (and looks like Id lied about it shipping on August 3rd.. unless they have one-minute mails :)).

But the big question is, does anyone know where we can find a list of these mystical stores? I live in Chicago and would like to find out, as I'm sure many other /. readers!