Doom 3 BFG releases October 16th
The enhanced re-release of Doom 3 is coming just in time for Halloween, publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced.
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The enhanced re-release of Doom 3 is coming just in time for Halloween, publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced.
Doom 3 is being remastered for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the BFG Edition, announced today. It packs a jazzed-up Doom 3, its expansion, a new seven-level mission, the first two Doom games, and changes including... an armour-mounted flashlight!
Over a year after Doom was pulled from Xbox Live Arcade due to the rights expiring, the console port of id Software's seminal shooter is returning.
id Software has now released the engine source code for Doom 3 under a GPL3 license, letting all and sundry get their hands dirty and bend it to their will. Let the coding commence!
Chief id Software technomancer John Carmack is now writing new Doom 3 code to dodge legal issues surrounding the rendering technique which gave Doom 3 its lovely shadows, so the engine can be open-sourced.
id Software's plans to release the Doom 3 source code after Rage launches are still on, and now have the approval of parent company ZeniMax, id's technical wizard John Carmack revealed at QuakeCon.
There's good QuakeCon news, and there's bad QuakeCon news. First, the bad: the old QCon forums have been hacked and passwords compromised. But the good: QuakeCon 2011 will gather venerated id veterans to tell stories in a '20 Years of id Software' panel.