Digital distribution is all the rage these days, and id Software doesn’t want to be left out of it, too. Company creative director Tim Willits has gone on record to say that Rage just might head to online distribution platforms, despite the game’s large reported size.
"We have not written off [...]

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Pissing off many gamers and modders, id Software’s Tim Willits let it out that Rage, the studio’s upcoming driving-action game, will not support user mods.
Willits comments that the horsepower required to process the megatextures used in the game may make full user modifications impractical. However, he sees gamers being able to create smaller mods [...]

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Moving on from the Xbox 360 Rage debacle, id Software talked about the title itself and its narrative, with Tim Willits admitting that id is not the first company one would really associate with the topic.
Willits goes on to suggest that the story as presented in the game is only part of its narrative [...]

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id Software has been very vocal about the limitations of the DVD medium and Xbox 360 hardware, noting that this version of the game would ship on multiple discs and feature marginally worse graphics than its PS3 and PC counterparts.
Naturally rumors rose that the studio was cutting content from the game due to the [...]

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Epic and Crytek may not be happy about widespread piracy of computer games, but id Software sees piracy as a benefit for consumers. Studio CEO Todd Hollenshead has accused PC makers of viewing piracy as a “hidden benefit” for consumers.
“I think they are [secretly happy about PC piracy],” he said. “The size of the [...]

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Shacknews reports that id Software has turned down publisher offers to develop a massive multiplayer version of its famous shooter series Quake. In an interview with the site, company president John Carmack revealed that the studio had gotten several offers of “good money” to develop a Quake MMO; he added that the company would [...]

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Shacknews reports that the Xbox 360 version of Rage will look worse than its PS3 counterpart, thanks to the console’s lack of Blu-ray or other higher capacity optical drives. Compression will cause the game to look worse, with id noting that it will have to use a “different type of compression” to fit the [...]

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Further speaking at QuakeCon, Carmack announced that the multiplayer modes in Doom 4 will be significantly better than the modes found in its predecessor or Quake 4. Carmack hopes to have enough resources to create a satisfying online component to match the game’s single-player campaign.
“[Doom 4 multiplayer] will not be as good of a [...]

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 d’s John Carmack has proclaimed that work on the Rage engine is almost finished.
“We have very few things that are very significant left to be done [to the technology],” he said. “We are ‘light at the end of the tunnel,’ going into the home stretch.”
Carmack noted that a change in the animation system will be [...]

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