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Thirty years ago today, id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, a thrilling first-person shooter game set during World War II. It broke new ground for action-based PC games and continued a string of growing successes for id Software. With help from John Carmack, John Romero, and Tom Hall, we’ll take a look at what made it special.

Oculus VR receives $75 million more in funding, teases a new Rift headset for CES 2014.

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) NVIDIA are the worlds leading producer of graphics processor|graphics processors. Although best known for their chips...

A modern classic thats almost 30 years old, lets find out how it works!

Shacknews own David Craddock is co-directing the 3-hour documentary with around 45 industry legends covering the history of first-person shooters.

One of VR’s biggest issues is motion sickness, but why does it happen? What can you do to stop motion sickness in VR and what are games doing to help reduce it?

They say hindsight is 20/20, but I'd like to think if I were a successful videogame executive in the early '90s, I would have been pretty jazzed to see an early build of id Software's Wolfenstein 3D. According to John Romero, the revolutionary first-person shooter didn't set off any sparks for Sierra On-line co-founder Ken Williams in a meeting that nearly ended with Sierra buying id.Romero recounted the meeting in a GDC 2022 talk held today (as told by IGN). ...

Id Softwares Rage combines first-person shooting, vehicular action, and "open but directed" exploration in a post-apocalyptic world, to tell the story of Earths wretched civilization after a cataclysmic meteor strike. Militaristic authority figures...

Modelling from Professor Neil Ferguson (pictured) and colleagues at Imperial College London published on March 16, 2020, predicted the NHS would be overwhelmed within weeks.

After revolutionizing PC gaming with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, id Software pulled off a hat trick with Quake, released on June 22, 1996. Quake mixed polygonal 3D graphics, networking, and grunge into a groundbreaking hit with wide influence. Here’s what made it special.