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As of today, I've written another Classic Games Resurrected article, the ninth in the series, and it is Wolfenstein 3D. This game is regarded by many to be the grandaddy of them all, the game that invented the FPS genre.
Winnenden School Shooting
On Wednesday this week, in Winnenden, Germany, Tim Kretschmer, a 17 year old former student who had dropped out of the school with no qualifications, killed 16 people before turning the gun on himself after a gunfight with policemen.
It was reported that his father owned 16 guns, of which Tim took one for the massacre, a 9mm Beretta automatic pistol. As he walked around the classrooms killing people, he uttered the phrase, "Are you all dead yet?"
Most of his victims were female, including eight girls and three female teachers.
It was said that as well as spending hours on his computer, he also attended a gun club which his father belonged to, and regularly practiced shooting.
On this day, Descent II was released in 1996. It was noted for popularizing the use of true 3D engines in games.
Chaos Computers, which now has five branches in Cape Town, is having a Friday the 13th grand opening special which starts this week at their new venue in N1 City.
On this day, in 1998, the Motörhead album, Snake Bite Love, was released.It included the following tracks:
Love for Sale
Dogs of War
Snake Bite Love
Assassin
Take the Blame
Dead and Gone
Night Side
Don't Lie to Me
Joy of Labour
Desperate for You
Better off Dead
My Favourite tracks on this album are Dogs of War, Snake Bite Love, Assassin,Take the Blame and Night Side.
I just wonder what this Rage will be like and whether it will garner as much long-term attention as the other two. I suppose it will naturally use the new idTech 5 engine, which Doom 4 and Quake 5 will use afterwards.
So the answer to the post's question, as to whether id will move away from Doom and Quake, is probably a "no".
Id Software's latest title under development, Rage, won't be released this year, according to Todd Hollenshead.
This probably means that Doom 4 will be pushed back until 2010 or 11 as well, mainly because it is set to use Rage's id Tech 5 engine.
That's a shame, but we will hopefully still get Wolfenstein this year.
March 10, 2009 EVE Online: Special Edition
March 10, 2009 Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game
March 10, 2009 My City
March 10, 2009 Tom Clancy's HAWX
March 12, 2009 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
