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Mobile MMOs in Carmack's future?
After recent mobile efforts including Doom and Orcs and Elves, John Carmack may have a new trick up his sleeve. Speaking to CNN Money, Carmack outlines his fears for the industry -- the unexpected cost of episodic gaming, along with security problems...
John Carmack on Doom RPG
The UK's Guardian Gamesblog recently got a chance to ask John Carmack seven hurried questions, and as a result John's rather terse replies chiefly talk about Doom RPG and the challenges posed by the mobile platform. Input and 3D capabilities are both...
John Carmack ponders Orcs & Elves on Wii
"Maybe we will do a Wii version next... with a magic wand." Those were the words of John Carmack, CTO and co-founder of id Software. While his company has made their fortune in the PC sector, the company has also outsourced development for some of it...
Carmack: Nintendo isn't really our thing
If you don't know the name John Carmack, then it's likely you aren't one who's ever traversed the hellish landscape of both Mars and, well...Hell. You've never taken a chainsaw to an Imp's face and you've likely never obliterated a Cyberdemon with a ...
Carmack prefers the Xbox 360
In a recent interview with BUZZSCOPE, id mastermind John Carmack expressed his next-gen preferences. When asked what he thought about the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3, he thinks that both are going to have a lot in store for gamers. However the sym...
Carmack blasts Vista gaming initiative
id Software's John Carmack isn't ready for his studio to make the jump to Windows Vista. "Nothing is going to help a new game by going to a new operating system. There were some clear wins going from Windows 95 to Windows XP for games, but there real...
John Carmack departs id Software
John Carmack, co-founder of Doom developer id Software, has left the company in order to pursue new projects outside the field of game development, reports IGN. "John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game develo...
Carmack and Hollenshead reflect on id sale
Six months after the acquisition deal that brought id Software under the wing of Bethesda parent-company ZeniMax, id Software co-founder John Carmack has again weighed in on the move and why he feels it made sense for the studio. Speaking with Edge ...
Looking into the world of Carmack's Doom through the Oculus Rift
"When people have sort of hacked together first-person demos with head mounts before, they usually have to wind up pretending they're a mouse, which gives you this very limited interface," master of the Doom franchise John Carmack told me in a meet...
Carmack joins Oculus VR as Chief Technology Officer [Update]
John Carmack, co-founder of id Software, has joined Oculus VR as Chief Technology Officer. Carmack will begin work on the Oculus Rift augmented reality headset on a full-time basis out of Dallas, Texas. Carmack has experience in working with the ...
John Carmack taps DS for latest game
In a brief interview with Game|Life's Chris Kohler, the lead ego at id Software (psychology joke!) expresses interest in porting one of his recent cellphone titles to Nintendo's touchy-feely portable. John Carmack explains that the potential port of ...
John Carmack blogs a second time
Basking in the glow of Doom 3's success (and finally having a couple of minutes to spare), John Carmack started a blog late last year. The new entry goes into his latest venture in the mobile arena. Apparently, he's working on a cell phone tit...
id's Carmack comments on NGP's theoretical performance
John Carmack, id Software's technical director, reminds us of our technical incompetence daily on Twitter. Yet, one tweet managed to catch our attention and make some semblance of sense to our puny brains. Carmack expects "the Sony NGP to perform ab...
Carmack on verge of retirement…again
Every few years, the gaming world gets its pants in a bunch over Carmack, the main man behind id games. Whenever he finishes a project, word gets out that he's thinking about retiring. Part of this phenomenon is fanboy-anxiety and pa...
Carmack's QuakeCon keynote highlights
On Friday, John Carmack gave his keynote address at the annual QuakeCon, devoting much of the presentation to id Software's next project. This new 3D action title will support multi-processor systems, and employ an updated version of the megatexture ...
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