id Software co-founder John Carmack says that, in terms of making games, he would be happy if Windows 8 didn't exist, while also saying he is "kind of excited" about checking out a Surface tablet. More...
John Romero, the man behind classics like Doom and Quake, and really the modern shooter genre, thinks that consoles will soon go the way of the dodo, brought down by tablets and the post-PC revolution More...
id Software has launched a new update of its free-to-play first person shooter Quake Live along with opening up the features for its paid Premium level from now until Sunday, May 6th. More...
Registration for the 2012 edition of QuakeCon in Dallas, Texas begins on Wednesday at 8 pm ET. The event will be free to attend but it will also have some premium tickets available to purchase. More...
Bethesda Softworks has announced that it will re-release Quake IV for the PC and Xbox 360 in retail stores this June for $19.99. The first person shooter from id and Raven first came out in 2005. More...
A new rumor that claims the long awaited Doom 4 has been cancelled at id Software has been denied by a spokesperson for the developer's parent company Bethesda Softworks. More...
The ratings board in Germany is now allowing the original 1996 version of id Software's first person shooter Quake to be sold in that country, a few months after Germany lifted the ban for Doom. More...
Over seven years after id Software released Doom 3, the developer has now released the game's engine source for for anyone to use for their own non-commercial projects. More...
A new rumor claims that due to issues with id Software's latest game Rage, owner Bethesda Softworks has put the developer's next project, the long awaited shooter Doom 4, on indefinite hold. More...
id Software's John Carmack has admited that the launch of the PC version of its long awaited game Rage was a "cluster!@#$" due to graphics driver issues. More...
PC gamers who have bought the just released id Software first person shooter Rage are experiencing a number of graphical issues with the game due to driver issues. More...
The PC system requirements for Rage, the latest first person shooter game from developer id Software, have been revealed about a month before the game is due to be released. More...
Germany's government has finally allowed id Software's first person shooters Doom and Doom II to be sold to teenagers, 17 years after it restricted sales to just adults. More...
If you were planning to install RAGE on your Xbox 360 console, you may want to ensure you have enough space for the game, or invest in a new hard drive. id's title will require a lot of storage space. More...
We got to play the first 90 minutes or so of Rage, id Software's six-years-in-the-making first person shooter, at QuakeCon 2011 this week. More...
At QuakeCon 2011, id Software founder John Carmack gave his annual keynote speech as he talked about Rage, gaming programming in general and more. More...
Next week's free QuakeCon 2011 LAN event will be getting a big boost in its broadband infrastructure. The Bethblog web site has announced that AT&T will be a major sponsor of the event which is... More...
A few weeks before the launch of the 2011 edition of QuakeCon, the organizers of the free LAN event have admitted that its official forums were the subject of a hacker attack. The official QuakeCon... More...
It's no secret that id Software co-founder and lead programmer John Carmack loves to make games for mobile platforms. Carmack started out by making games like Doom RPG and Wolfenstein RPG for mobile phones well... More...
15 years ago today on June 22, 1996, id Software changed the entire gaming industry with the release of the full version of Quake (id released a free multiplayer preview build, known as Qtest, several... More...
The long awaited next game from id Software, Rage, is getting a few more weeks of development time. The game's official web site, with no explanation, has now updated the game's release date for the... More...
As you've all probably heard by now, at this year's E3 Nintendo announced their latest console - the Wii U, while Sony talked more about its newest handheld, now known as PlayStation Vita. Gamespot recently spoke... More...
Nearly three years after id Software first announced plans to release Rage, the game is getting closer and closer to its release date. E3 2011 gave us an opportunity to actually play id Software's first... More...
The Obama administration is planning on handing over power to the U.S. Commerce department in a new effort to increase security on the Internet. The idea is to create an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet,... More...
The success of id Software's Quake Live open beta has been so tremendous that the developer is considering working on a free browser version of Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. Quake Live is a free version of... More...
Having being in the closed beta stages for months, the gaming masses will finally be able to get in on the Quake Live action on February 24 when the beta goes public. According to the... More...