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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 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 ...

id pushing hard for Quake Live on the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2009)

Our good friends at Joystiq recently spoke to id games' John Carmack (the man behind games like Quake and Doom, and fervent supporter of Mac gaming), and heard that id's new product, Quake Live, is headed to our OS just as soon as they can get it there. Quake Live is a free, browser-based, ...

John Carmack planning a "graphical tour-de-force" for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 30th, 2008)

Ah, game developers (especially EA game developers, of which id software's John Carmack is now one, after their announcement at E3 that they'd work together to publish games). They thrive on hype, and live, it seems sometimes, off of speculation. That's probably why Carmack has told Forbes that not ...