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Bye Bye EA
Well, it’s official. Zenimax Media (The parent company of ID Software), has taken over the production rights to produce the new Rage Game.
Bethesda Softworks, a Zenimax subsiduary, will be contracted to pump out the game discs.
It is possible that EA is going through some sort of restructuring as they had previously announced that they were cancelling more than a dozen games to focus on those with a higher profit margin. EA has also trimmed their workforce by over 17%
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After a long wait, the Rage Game Forums are now open!!
Stop in and see what everyone thinks about the new game RAGE as well as other games and topics.
>>>FORUM LINK <<<
While you’re there, be sure to enter the “Guess the RAGE Release Date” Contest.
The winner will win a $50 game credit at STEAM.
Contest rules can be found HERE
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Rage Game for the iPhone
We have all heard of “Road Rage” but how about “Phone Rage”?
You will if ID’s John Carmack has his way.
Carmack, whose ground breaking studio was purchased by Zenimax earlier in the year, revealed in a blog post that ID will dedicate two of its techs to full-time iPhone game development.
Carmack said “We have two people at Id that are going to be dedicated to iPhone work. I doubt I will be able to personally open Xcode again for a few months, but I do plan on trying to work out a good touch interface for Quake Classic and the later 6DOF games. I also very much want to make at least a tech demo that can run media created with a version of our idTech 5 megatexture content creation pipeline. I’m not sure exactly what game I would like to do with it, so it might be a 500 mb free gee-whiz app…”
“I want to work on a Rage themed game to coincide with Rage’s release, but we don’t have a firm direction or team chosen for it. I was very excited about doing a really-designed-for-the-iPhone first person shooter, but at this point I am positive that I don’t have the time available for it.”
New Rage Game Forums are OPEN!!
After a long wait, the Rage Game Forums are now open!!
Stop in and see what everyone thinks about the new game RAGE as well as other games and topics.
<<< RAGE GAME FORUMS >>>
While you’re there, be sure to enter the “Guess the RAGE Release Date” Contest.
The winner will win a $50 game credit at STEAM.
Contest rules can be found HERE
See You There!!
New Rage Game Interview
UGDB.com Has just published an interview with ID Software lead designer Matt Hooper and creative director Tim Willits.
The question and answer session shed some more light on the game including some more details on the storyline as well as some of the weapons that we will have available to us as well as some of the vehicle mods that will trick out our dune buggies.
Here is the interview:
UGDB.com: RAGE is your NEXT big title, but what are the things that make it exciting for you as a designer? Don’t you think that you guys have waited just too long to come up with a new IP?
Matt Hooper: Yes, the biggest thing about RAGE, and the thing that makes it new and exciting for me as a designer is that this is the first new IP that we make in id Software for over 10 years. If you guys are familiar in what we have done in the past, we have living in the Wolfenstein, Quake and Doom universes for a long time. Read the rest of this entry »
Quakecon Footage with Rage Interviews
Here is a clip that is hosted at Gamespot including some Rage game chat from the designers.
Quakecon 2009 Rage Game Trailer
Here is a peek at the new Rage Game trailer released at this years Quakecon convention.
Come tomorrow, there should be some gameplay footage surfacing as well.
New Rage Game Screenshots Show up in ID Software Presentation
At this year’s SIGGRAPH conference, J.M.P. van Waveren’s, (a senior programmer at id Software) made a presentation detailing ID’s latest tech engine “id tech 5″ which is the platform Rage will be running on.
The presentation is labled “id Tech 5 Challenges: From Texture Virtualization to Massive Parallelization” the 37 page presentation included a half dozen high-res, mouth watering, screens of the game.
New Rage Details Surfacing
Well, the cat’s out of the bag and it looks like the new Rage game is going to be a winner.
In the latest edition of “Game Informer”, details were thrown out there to get us pumped up for the release of the new game and the upcoming “QuakeCon” Convention.
Some of the Rage game highlights that Carmack talked about are:
- An engineering system to craft devices including sentry turrets and RC car bombs, if you have the blueprints and parts.
- Your health regenerates–a gift connected to your history.
- Races and missions are available from hub towns.
- Vehicular combat is a big part of racing, with power-ups and ammo placed around the courses.
- Weapon upgrades, such as a scope and aiming stabilisers for a crossbow.
- Alternate ammo types, including a crossbow bolt which allows you to briefly control victims before they explode.
- Stealth is an option in combat too.
- A gladiatorial game show named Mutant Bash TV offers big prize money.
- A car parts system allows boosts to areas such as acceleration, traction and suspension.
- Other car upgrades include bombs, a magnet to draw power-ups, tire shredders and EMP shields.
- Multiplayer modes are currently not finalised.
- One weapon is a three-tipped boomerang called the ‘wingstick,’ which will return.
- The PC version will offer higher resolutions, more anti-aliasing and faster texture page-in times, but the three versions are essentially the same.
Rage Game Cover Shot
Well, ID software is starting to ramp up their marketing efforts.
Rage is now on the cover of the latest “Game Informer” magazine.
Game Informer Magazine has said they will reaveal “tons of exclusive dirt on the post-apocalyptic title, including plenty of gameplay details and loads of screens,”.
We will be bringing you all the details and pictures as soon as they become available.
ID Software Bought by Zenimax Media
Breaking News today from Zenimax Media, they announced the acquisition of ID Software the maker of the new game RAGE
In the press release, Zenimax stated that ID’s main man John Carmack will remain at the helm of this incredible software company while Zenimax will be taking care of the publishing & distribution end of things.