Doom cover artist Don Ivan Punchatz dies at 73
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 »
Gamertell Review: Wolfenstein 3D Classic for iPhone, iPod Touch
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 »
Wolfenstein at E3 2008, two videos to oogle
At E3 2008, Activision and a representative of id announced that they are working on a follow up for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Details at the moment are hard to find, outside of the press conference given at E3. For those of you who haven’t been too involved with the… Continue Reading »
Power hogging next gen consoles
Attention “green” gamers and anyone who cares about their electric bill: your next-gen consoles are ridiculously power-hungry. According to a post at Destructoid, a PS3 (not in use, but turned on) will run you $250 a year in electricity (about 5x what a refrigerator costs to run for the same… Continue Reading »
Id itching to hire Doom 4 development team
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 »
id to expand focus as PC gamers move to consoles
Next up to cast a shadow on PC gaming’s vitality is id Software, which had been a driving force in the platform’s popularity during the ‘90s with the Doom and Quake games. Last Thursday (March 20, 2008), id’s Director of Business, Steve Nix, told Eurogamer that the average first-person shooter… Continue Reading »
Blast From the Past: Id, Apogee in awesome 1992 video
George Broussard and John Romero. Titans of another lifetime. This clip from a local newscast tries to get to the bottom of what all the kids were talking about in 1992, illustrating how neither could find that charming line between hubris and coy self-promotion. But there’s more to this clip… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Black Friday 2009
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Live Coverage of E3 2009
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Important Importables
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