id Software Archives

Posted inin Business
Development

Microsoft’s id Software votes for wall-to-wall union with CWA

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 12, 2025
2 min

A strong majority of video game workers at Microsoft subsidiary id Software voted in favor of union representation with the Communications Workers of America...

Continue Reading
2 min

Posted inin Gameplay

Doom: The Dark Ages rewards aggression and weapon changing | review

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 13, 2025
7 min

It took me a while because of other work, but I finally got through Doom: The Dark Ages weeks after it debuted on May...

Continue Reading
7 min

Posted inin Gameplay

Id Software shows off Doom: The Dark Ages for 2025

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 9, 2024
1 min

Bethesda’s id Software studio showed off Doom: The Dark Ages coming for 2025 The company, owned by Microsoft, made the announcement at Microsoft’s Xbox...

Continue Reading
1 min

Doom Guy: Life in First Person is an excellent memoir by John Romero.

Posted inin Development

Making Doom and building the FPS industry at 100 miles per hour | John Romero interview

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 14, 2023
27 min

John Romero is perhaps the ideal person to record the early history of first-person shooters, the genre of hardcore gaming with tens of billions...

Continue Reading
27 min

Posted inin Gameplay

Quake ‘revitalized edition’ is imminent as game appears on ESRB rating site

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 19, 2021
2 min

The Quakecon fan event starts today, and shockingly, it looks like Bethesda and id Software plan to reveal some news about the classic shooter....

Continue Reading
2 min

Doom's next expansion is coming on October 20.

Posted inin Gameplay

Doom Eternal expansion The Ancient Gods Part One arrives October 20

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 27, 2020
1 min

Bethesda and id Software announced that the first single-player campaign expansion for Doom Eternal is The Ancient Gods Part One, and it will debut...