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John Carmack responds to Microsoft laying off id Software staff, and his comments hit hard for fans who watched him help build DOOM from the ground up

In the wake of id Software's layoffs by Microsoft as part of its restructuring of Xbox's game studios, one of the studio's founders, John Carmack, took to social media to share his thoughts on the situation.

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id Software co-founder says "my 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" after the Doom maker lost 136 of its 185 staff to layoffs

"You can't rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn't be your default belief"

GamesRadar

John Carmack reacts to massive layoffs at id Software: 'My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well'

"You can't rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn't be your default belief."

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John Carmack apologizes after Sandy Petersen says 'Quake ruined id Software,' and for once John Romero doesn't tell Sandy he's wrong

Three of the principals from the early days of id Software shared some faintly maudlin but ultimately uplifting reminiscences from those long-ago days.

PC Gamer

In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?

Re-examining an old quote from Valve's Gabe Newell reveals a big gap in what we know about Doom's popularity.

PC Gamer

"There was an arrogant assumption that players of shooters didn't want and wouldn't care about a story; we just didn't believe this": Go behind the scenes of Half-Life with legendary Valve designer Marc Laidlaw

Retro | We return to the abandoned halls of Black Mesa to uncover how a truly revolutionary video game was created

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An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'

The game just "stands the test of time."

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The Nvidia GeForce3 launched 25 years ago — underappreciated at launch, its impact shaped the industry

Technological evolution rarely looks important in the moment. In fact, sometimes it even looks like a regression.

Tom’s Hardware

A cure for the memory crisis? John Carmack envisions fiber cables replacing RAM for AI usage, which would mean a better future for us all

Fiber aside, there could be a nearer-term way of alleviating the memory crisis, too.

TechRadar

John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM

John Carmack considers fiber as an L2 cache for streaming AI data.

Tom’s Hardware

'We had 16 megahertz CPUs, 640k of RAM, floppy disks': John Carmack reflects on the hardware that made Wolfenstein 3D

That's to celebrate id's 35th anniversary.

PC Gamer

id Software's 2D platformers were making "10 times" more money than its early FPS games, and Doom might never have happened if the studio followed the easy cash

Adrian Carmack getting a fright playing Catacomb 3-D is to thank for Doom existing

GamesRadar

id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'

Happy 35th birthday, id Software.

PC Gamer

AI and Jobs: Netflix Engineer Warns Coding Careers Face a Brutal Reset

A senior Netflix engineer warns that while traditional coding careers face a brutal reset, the future remains bright for those who adapt.

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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs

35 years ago today, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons - Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was released by a dev team including John Carmack and John Romero.

Tom’s Hardware

AMD swoops in to help as John Carmack slams Nvidia's $4,000 DGX Spark, says it doesn't hit performance claims, overheats, and maxes out at 100W power draw — developer forums inundated with crashing and shutdown reports

Nvidia’s DGX Spark, the company’s new $4,000 developer box powered by the Grace Blackwell GB10 superchip, is under fire after questions were raised about real-world performance and power draw.

PC Gamer

OG Doom legend John Carmack says his Nvidia DGX Spark box has thermal throttling issues, raising doubts over the viability of Nvidia's AI APU for laptop PCs

Carmack claims his DGX Spark is delvering just half the expected performance.

PC Gamer

John Carmack celebrates Quake's induction in the Videogame Hall of Fame: 'We threw everything we had at it, and it was really a little bit more than we could chew at the time… it was rough'

"The real legacy of Quake is in the metagame rather than the game itself."

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A graphical history of id Tech: Three decades of cutting-edge graphics and game engine technologies

It's not just about Doom. Okay, it's mostly about Doom.

PC Gamer

Microsoft's 100% AI-generated Quake 2 made us nauseous but John Carmack, the game's OG coder, is into it: 'What? This is impressive research work!'

The research, folks, the research. Absolutely not the frame rate. I hope.

Android Central

Meta's VP of VR is leaving and it's time for the company to 'give a damn' again

Mark Rabkin is leaving Meta and transferring power to Ryan Cairns who previously headed up Portal and Meta for Work initiatives.

Tom’s Hardware

In 1991, after a 28-hour coding spree, the efforts of John Carmack 'Doomed' us all

John Carmack's incredible coding feat prior to the launch of Doom is memorialized.

Tom’s Hardware

Legendary video game developer imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs — John Carmack envisions a GPU with Linux onboard, so you would just add power and a display

Earlier today, legendary video games developer John Carmack made the case for what one might casually describe as a standalone graphics card.

Player One

Elon Musk Somehow Found Time to Rank in the Top 20 of 'Diablo IV'

In the midst of running his companies and campaigning for Donald Trump, Elon Musk somehow found time to do very well in Diablo IV

Inverse

20 Years Ago, A Legendary Sci-Fi Shooter Got a Controversial Sequel That Was Ahead of Its Time

'Doom 3' took big risks to pioneer a new genre of gaming, even if the response at the time was mixed at best.

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