Gamertell

The man behind one of the most well-known game covers in history died October 22, 2009. Don Ivan Punchatz created art for National Lampoon, Playboy and National Geographic during his decades-long career.  He suffered a heart attack October 11, 2009, and never regained consciousness. When hired by then startup iD… Continue Reading »

This one came out of nowhere - ZeniMax, the parent company of Fallout 3 and Oblivion developer Bethesda, has just announced its acquisition of id Software (best known for the Doom and Quake franchises). According to a report at Gamasutra, Bethesda will publish all of id’s currently unsigned projects (EA… Continue Reading »

You’d think slapping a classic shooting game onto a handheld gaming device and giving it a few touchscreen controls would make it a cheap and crappy port. Falsch, meinem Freund. Wolfenstein 3D Classic is instead a fun iPhone and iPod Touch game that surprisingly revitalizes even this ancient first-person shooter. Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Wolfenstein 3D Classic for iPhone and iPod Touch Screen Shots

If you’re the sort of guy or gal who likes to get your frag on, but you’re low on funds, listen up. Id Software’s miraculous Quake Live project - wherein the company has managed to squeeze the ultra violent multiplayer FPS into a web browser - is now in its… Continue Reading »

Steam has a very good deal for anyone itching for id action this weekend. 1up is reporting that all id software will be 50% this weekend - including the amazing id super pack, which includes everything from early titles to Doom 3. That’s 22 mostly great games (ok, Hexen kind… Continue Reading »

This is probably the craziest deal of the year or maybe even the decade. For this weekend only Steam is selling the id Super Pack which contains some of the best games from id Software’s library. The pack includes 22 - yes, 22 - separate games an expansions for only… Continue Reading »

Id Software’s first-person shooter Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is now available for $60 on the Xbox 360 and PS3. The game was already available for the PC and has received rave reviews and several awards. The Xbox 360 version has been developed by Nerve Software while Underground Development is behind… Continue Reading »

id Software has announced that it is looking for people to join its internal development team for the upcoming horror first-person shooter, Doom 4. No information was given about the game, such as new features, story, or even what platform(s) it will end up on.  All we know right now… Continue Reading »

A large chunk of future games might be free-to-play and depend solely on revenue from in-game advertisements and paid downloadable content. Ad-backed games stand to revolutionize the games industry and the revolution might have just commenced.  In January 2008, EA announced an ad-backed online multiplayer game Battlefield Heroes and, now,… Continue Reading »

The award-winning Orcs & Elves game is coming to the Nintendo DS and mobile phone for Christmas 2007, Electronic Arts announced today (July 12, 2007). Orcs & Elves is a first-person fantasy RPG that was redesigned from the original mobile phone game to use the dual screens of the DS.… Continue Reading »