iD Software has been acquired by ZeniMax media. (Reports
here,
here, and many other places.) John Romero, the co-founder of the company,
had some initial concerns but seems to have
cheered up. No doubt a wide variety of retrospectives, histories, opinions and flames will rise from this most infamously-independent of game studios joining forces/merging/being swallowed by another, younger one. (
ZeniMax was founded in 1999,
iD in 1991.) With iD releasing games with years-long gaps between them, younger readers might not have grown up playing this company's output, but if you've ever
run down a hallway with a gun bouncing earnestly before you and looking through a heads-up display, iD has touched your life too.
Masters of Doom is an excellent history of the company in book form, assuming you still read.
posted by jscott
on Jun 24, 2009 -
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