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id Software Working on New Title
id Software has announced that, powered by the 'magic' of a new Carmack-crafted engine, an entirely new franchise is on the way. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the venerable FPS development house is hard at work on a completely original game. Without ties to Doom or Quake, the company hopes to begin moving in some new and interesting directions. "Id's last major internally developed title was 2004's Doom 3, which utilized new technology created by Carmack. In the interim, id's technical director has been heavily involved in bringing games onto mobile, including Doom RPG and Orcs & Elves. 'Our first task at id is as a single studio developer,' [Todd] Hollenshead continued. 'That's really where everything spawns from. Because John Carmack is a programming genius, who in my opinion is unequalled in video games today, he makes a great technology that we can use across a wide range of applications and different games within our suite of franchises. The new stuff that we're working on does have a brand new engine that John has been working on, actually is still working on today. We can't really talk any details about it; we'll see about when the timing is right for an announcement. We like to be able to talk about stuff that we can show at the same time and it's not really ready to show yet.'"
Maybe they'll blow everyone's mind and release a game that isn't a FPS.
Nah, it'll never happen.
I read the internet for the articles.
kittens!! A smart evolved bacteria that controls kittens is forcing kittens to take over the world as we know it. Its sole purpose is to eventually have a mutant controlled kitten society...The heroin of the movie must masturbate his way through the story because as you know, "masturbate and kill a kitten".
Maybe they'll blow everyone's mind and release a game that isn't a FPS.
Maybe they'll really go overboard and release a game that isn't a horror/scifi FPS seemingly based on bad 80's heavy metal album covers.
I'd love to see a new Commander Keen game. That series was so much fun.
I hope the don't fuck up "New Title II" though.
I will laugh if iD got tired of waiting for Duke Nuke'm Forever and decided to do it themselves.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
Dude, how bout a game with Demon Aliens fighting Zombies both in space and underground, during WWII?
How tits would that be?
Come read my stupid blagablog. Rants and Giggles
Its about a tranny addicted to narcotics?
I hope Id does something OTHER than an FPS game.
Everyone does first-person or third-person shooters. The "second-person shooter" world is sorely lacking, and it is here that id will show its true genius.
But I've said too much.
Er, I mean 7, of course. How embarrassing.
They had to wait for the hardware to catch up with what Carmack wanted to do next. I wouldn't be surprised if the minimum hardware spec is a quad-core CPU, 1GB video card, 4GB memory and a 64-bit operating system.
Stuff that hasn't been "done" to death yet:
* First Person Clubber : a prehistoric combat game for control of a cave network
* a game where the hero must stop the forces of Heaven from invading Earth : take that, fluffy angels !
* we're invading an alien planet and ONOES we forgot the activation keys home, so nuking the site from orbit is not an option : slaughter all helpless life on the planet to make space for humankind
* a reenactment of the Vietnam war : we know you hate being reminded of it, but nobody's done it before so hey, dibs on it
Hooray for innovative concepts !
Wonder which one he'll be picking...
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