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Rage v1.11 update adds Game Center, gyroscope controls and TV support

by Richard Gaywood (Dec 18th, 2010)

A big update for id games' Rage: Mutant Bash TV (available in SD and HD versions for US$0.99 and $1.99; the latter being for iPhone 4 and iPad) has appeared on iTunes overnight. As John Carmack noted in our recent interview with him, it adds a number of new features that arguably should have been ...

id loves the iPhone, but won't bring Orcs & Elves to App Store

by Mike Schramm (Aug 20th, 2010)

Touch Arcade got to speak with none other than John Carmack himself at QuakeCon last weekend, and he had some disappointing news about getting old school id games on the iPhone. While Carmack said that he's excited about releasing Rage on the iPhone, he admits that id's past titles haven't sold up ...

Rage demo'd at 60 fps on iPhone, id games on sale

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2010)

QuakeCon is going down this weekend in AustinDallas, Texas -- the annual celebration of everything id Software (makers of Quake and Doom, among a few other classic PC titles) features tournaments and panels on some of the hottest PC games around. But there's already been one big Apple announcement: ...

Doom II RPG unleashed on iPhone

by Kelly Guimont (Feb 11th, 2010)

I remember there being a joke about new devices coming out: Yeah, but does it run Doom? The iPhone does, and apparently Id is on a hot streak now. According to TouchArcade, the Doom II RPG [$3.99, iTunes Link] was released Tuesday on the App Store. What I've seen is that people are enjoying it. I ...

Wolfenstein RPG out now on iPhone and iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2009)

Electronic Arts has released the Wolfenstein RPG for the iPhone and iPod touch -- the game is available on the App Store for $4.99 right now. It's based in the world of Wolfenstein, but it's not your normal first-person shooter. Instead, it's actually a mobile turn-based RPG, adapted from an older ...

Doom Resurrection on the iPhone now, lots more id games to come

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2009)

Fellow shooter fans rejoice -- id software's John Carmack has begun delivering on his love of the iPhone with a brand new game made just for the platform called Doom Resurrection, available right now on the App Store for the price of $9.99. There's nothing small about this game at all -- it offers ...

GDC09: iPhone gaming roundup

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2009)

The Game Developers Conference is on in San Francisco, and game companies are starting to pull out the major announcements on what's coming to the iPhone in the next year. Here's a roundup of all the titles we've heard mentioned already. EA announced a huge lineup of ports from their already ...

id's Hollenshead: Apple "has not followed through" on gaming

by Mike Schramm (Jul 10th, 2008)

id software's CEO Todd Hollenshead met up with Kikizo for an interview recently, and the conversation turned, as often seems to do with id nowadays, to gaming on the Mac. Hollenshead was confronted with what his peers Gabe Newell (of Valve), and id's John Carmack had previously said about Apple, and ...