Tim Willits is leaving id after 24 years, after the next QuakeCon.
Tim Willits is leaving id after 24 years, after the next QuakeCon.
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Id Software leader Tim Willits will leave after QuakeCon

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Longtime id Software studio director Tim Willits announced in a tweet today that he will leave the company after the company’s upcoming QuakeCon fan event.

QuakeCon runs from July 25 to July 28 in Dallas, and it will bring to a close Willits’ 24 years with id Software, which for many years was based in Mesquite, Texas, and is now in Richardson, Texas. And it means that Willits is leaving at a time that he previously called “the golden age of id.”

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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.