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Former id Software producer says the team faced the 'worst crunch' in the series' history on Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations: 'There were days where I didn't see my son'

"There were two months where I was working something like at least 12 hours every day."

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id Software's former co-owner says they absolutely would've used gen AI back in the day: 'John Carmack would be like making Skynet or something'

"I make this joke that someone needs to come up with the 'Half-Life 2 of AI'."

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The future of id Software — alumni from the legendary DOOM studio speaks on its future with Xbox. The good, and the bad.

Recently, we spoke to id Software alumni on the studio's present and future, as Xbox layoffs upend the legendary studio known for popularizing an entire genre.

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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn't sell

id Software included locked versions of its entire game library on the $10 Quake shareware CD it released in 1996. But the system meant to allow gamers to pay for and unlock those titles over the phone proved vulnerable to crackers who discovered a way to unlock every game on…

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The Quake shareware CD-ROM contained encrypted copies of every id Software game—and yes, it was cracked 39 days after release

I blame those pesky kids.

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The Quake community simply cannot stop delivering, having just released a 22-map 'Deathmatch Jam' to celebrate the shooter's 30th birthday

Frag your friends to mark three decades of Quake.

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I got so freaked out by the fact that Gordon Freeman is canonically 27 that I decided to find out how old all the other classic FPS protagonists are, and it didn't make me feel better

Time, Dr Freeman?

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The bigwigs who want AI-generated NPCs and writing think you're too dumb to appreciate a good story—don't prove them right

The delight's in the details.

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How to Run 'DOOM' Inside Microsoft Paint

The iconic game that solidified the franchise to the world is, believe it or not, actually playable on MS paint.

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Wes Fenlon's recommendations

What has Senior Editor Wes Fenlon been into lately?

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Id Software lead says devs "don't have the incentive to care anymore" with Microsoft threatening another 1,600 Xbox layoffs after latest bloodbath

"No one's growing, no one's learning"

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id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft's are weakening the games industry, because developers 'don't have the incentive to care anymore'

"A lot of gamers, even if they don't know it, they can feel it's not right. There's something wrong."

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'Thank you so much for the best weekend ever': The id Software gang got together at QuakeCon, and it sure looks like everyone had a great time

I love a happy ending.

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Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'

"The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."

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Id Software dev says Microsoft's layoffs prove "they fundamentally don't understand" art, games, the entire business, or the destruction they just caused

"We're not the same iD, we're half the same iD."

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30 years after it 'ruined id Software,' Quake gets another big update while the studio once again grapples with adversity

New levels from MachineGames and archival development material have been added to the id Software classic in a free update.

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John Romero says id Software once sold empty Doom boxes to Taiwanese pirates so fans there could have legit copies: 'For us, it was distribution'

The id Software co-founder told the story during an opening panel at QuakeCon.

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12 years after being delisted, Wolfenstein 2009 could be getting a surprise remaster at QuakeCon 2026, fans speculate after sudden changes to the FPS's Steam page

It'll work on the Steam Deck, apparently

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One excellent, unforgettable expansion has fixed Doom: The Dark Ages

Revelations singlehandedly redeems the low point of the trilogy.

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Halo: Campaign Evolved is the star of Xbox Game Pass' 2nd July wave of new games, alongside an original RPG by Game Freak and a classic id Software FPS

Microsoft has unveiled the second line-up of games coming and leaving Xbox Game Pass in July 2026. The most notable new additions include Halo: Campaign Evolved, Beast of Reincarnation, and Heretic + Hexen.

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Does anyone know how to drive this thing?

It's increasingly looking like nobody remembers how videogames work—or cares to.

PC Gamer

Doom director Hugo Martin says id Software is fine, and anyway, 'what matters the most is that the games are good'

I'm not so sure about that one, man.

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Doom: The Dark Ages lead says claims that id Software has been "gutted" by layoffs are "not true," and its engine team is "very much alive and well"

"What matters the most is that the games are good," says Hugo Martin

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"There have been reports that we've been nerfed into the ground and gutted, and we are not": id Software proclaims it's alive and well, making more DOOM games

id Software recently discussed the future of the company following Microsoft's mass wave of layoffs during a DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelation livestream, and it reassured fans it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

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Report paints a picture of brutal cord-cutting inside Xbox layoffs: 'Many of us did not know what was happening for weeks'

"It was left to all of us to speculate and spiral and worry."

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