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Todd Hollenshead takes his id Software expertise to Nerve Software

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Todd Hollenshead, the former president and CEO of id Software, has joined Nerve Software as its business manager. He’ll be the top business guy alongside Nerve founder Brandon James, who will lead game development at the Dallas company.

Hollenshead negotiated the $100 million-plus sale of id — the maker of games such as Doom, Quake, and Rage — to Bethesda Softworks in 2009, and then he left the company in 2013. Starting in 1996, he began work as the “biz guy” who handled all of the business matters while graphics wizard John Carmack ran game development. He eventually got the loftier title of president and CEO, and left after 17 years.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.