Tue, Feb 02, 2010 | 08:31 GMT
id Software celebrates 19th birthday
Quake-maker id Software celebrated its 19th birthday yesterday.
The studio was founded in 1991 by John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall and Adrian Carmack [no relation to John - JC].
Last year was a pretty big one for id.
It was taken over by ZeniMax, Bethesda’s parent group, for an undisclosed sum, although it was revealed $105 million was borrowed to conduct the deal.
The developer is currently workking on Rage for PS3, 360, and PC for a release this year, as well as DOOM 4.
The latter still hasn’t been shown, but should make this year’s Quakecon, given what id’s CEO Todd Hollenshead told Nathan at last year’s event.
Happy birthday, chaps.
Thanks, BN.
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Posted in: Bethesda, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Doom, id software, john carmack, quake, rage
9 comments
#1
Blerk
02/02/10, 8:40 am
Happy birthday, id! If only you could still wow me like the first time I saw Wolfenstein and Doom… make it so!
#2
endgame
02/02/10, 9:09 am
happy b-day id. i’m so proud of u.
wolfenstein and doom were ok but what i really enjoyed were the quake series. quake 1 at least was the first “3d” shooter that i played on the pc and it just.. idk. it brings back good memories. i ty for that. cheers.
#3
Blerk
02/02/10, 9:14 am
I really didn’t get on with Quake at all. In any of its iterations.
#4
Bulk Slash
02/02/10, 9:21 am
I’ve enjoyed just about every game id have made, even Doom 3, which I thought was rather misunderstood and underrated. The only id game I have never played is Quake 2 because my PC at the time wasn’t up to running it. I really should buy it on Steam and try it…
#5
mington
02/02/10, 9:29 am
quake 2 changed my life, i played through that game ALOT
i even bought quake 4 (naff) on my xbox360 because it came with a bonus disk of quake 2, i bought it second hand and it came without the bonus disk RRRRAAAAAAGGGGEEEEEEE!!!!
why the fuck can’t they just release this as a download
stupid id, happy birthday
#6
Gheritt White
02/02/10, 10:37 am
Happy birthday, ID! Can’t wait for RAGE, first game by ID I’ve looked forward to since Spear of Destiny (although I absolutely adored Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Heretic 2, they were both developed by Raven).
#7
ShiroGamer
02/02/10, 2:44 pm
oh how lovely
good times indeed
RTCW
oh and id tech 4
#8
fdelfino
02/02/10, 3:44 pm
Happy birthday id!
Now give us a release date for RAGE, for fuck’s sake!!!!
#9
rainer
02/02/10, 5:00 pm
Dam time flies, 19 years is a long time for any studio to survive, congrats to id and happy birthday.