LG reader Tweet wrote id Software’s John Carmack about the status of Linux ports for the first-person shooter developer’s upcoming titles (minus QuakeLive, which has a Linux port in active development already):
Wolfenstein is pretty unlikely, since it was developed at Raven, and published by Activision. There are no firm plans for linux ports of [...]
id Software founder and lead programmer John Carmack updated his .plan fi– err, Twitter account to announce the id Tech 4 engine which powered Doom 3 will be released soon: adamix_ @ID_AA_Carmack Please release idtech4 source code soon, or Shambler will kill me for waiting too long :( @ID_AA_Carmack @adamix_ doom 3 source is packaged [...]
John Carmack, founder and technical director id software, recently tweeted that Wine for Linux gaming seems like a better idea than Native ports.
It is not first time Carmack has shown his support for Wine.
Return To Castle Wolfenstein, a first-person shooter released back in 2001, with Activision as publisher, now has a cooperative mode that was just updated by its developers. We covered Return To Castle Wolfenstein last week and the conclusion is that the idea of making this clearly single-player game into a cooperative o... (read more)
In November last year, John Carmack open sourced Doom 3. Since than many developers are working to improve the source code.
In one such effort, Polish developer Krzysztof Klinikowski has ported the game to Android.
Our host network/site, Atomic Gamer, recently interviewed id Software’s John Carmack about their upcoming first-person shooter RAGE, and the ways it departs from the traditional aspects of id’s library to date: AG: Rage is being marketed as an FPS, but you guys have a lot more gameplay elements in there. JC: We actually had to [...]
DOOM 3 BFG Edition was officially released for the consoles and the Windows platform more than a month ago, but id Software hasn't forgotten the Linux community and now they've also published the source code for the game.
The initial announcement was made in October by John Carmack on Twitter, but there was no other indication of the release date.
Zynga announced this morning that it has acquired game developer November Software for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition apparently occurred back in the spring, but Zynga is only announcing it now, in part so that it can drop a few hints about the game that the November team is working on.
While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet...
While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways.
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