Doom III Could Be Delayed Due To Alpha Leak


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Darkvision.be reports that he has received another mail from 'someone from ID', that he really don't knows if he's real , or just a faker, but he's posting this because it's maybe true. Anyway here's the mail:

Thanks for posting that. We have found out some more info about this recent situation. Apparently the people at Zelaron and Iownjoo are not new to the scene. They have members there that have been releasing information on our game as well as other games and seem to be a meeting place for some hardcore gamers. While we are not sure yet, we think they have some additional info and tools on the Doom 3 game, as well as other important information on other games in development.

We have tried contacting both of them but with no luck. I have been talking with several news sources in the past couple of hours about this and we are getting flooded with questions and such. If they have gotten some of the important development tools as suspected, development may be delayed on the game. We are in contact with other game companies and individuals who are constantly trying to figure out what's going on. In conclusion, it looks like this goes a lot deeper then we thought, and that the sites and individuals from these sites have a lot more then just the Doom 3 alpha demo.

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I am suprised. If it's true that the leak occurred from ATi ( and Carmack certainly suggested a third party company leaked it - see Carmack /. post) then it would be unusual for them to also have development tools - afterall if they were doing benchmarking and optimisation then I don't see that they would need development tools, they wouldn't need the source code to 3D Mark 2001 in order to optimise their drivers for it.

Considering the only sources for this extra news ( as opposed to the word of Carmack on /. ) are these shady "id insiders" who have never gone in for this cloak and dagger, emailing any old games site style of informing it seems highly unlikely that these are real id quotes. I would suggest that any information would either come from:

a) Carmack posts to /.

b) id employee .plan updates

c) Press release from Hollinshead

Finally, all of these secret squirrel type "id mole says something" reports seem to talk up Zelaron and Iownjoo to the point of suggesting that they are super underground game spy sites - the place to go etc. Which all goes to suggest a vested interest in these unsubstantiated anonymous id attributed posts.

But then again maybe they are right and they have the new Radiant editor, Quake4 Alpha and the completed XBOX Doom III...

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