id Software to develop for iPhone

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 31st July 2008

id Software is currently planning on bringing a new game to Apple's iPhone platform.

id Software, the developer behind the Doom and Quake franchises and one of the biggest names in the PC gaming industry, is set to develop a new title exclusively for the iPhone according to recent comments.

John Carmack, lead technical whizz at id Software, has long been a fan of mobile systems and has bought adaptations of Orcs and Elves as well as Doom RPG to mobiles and DSs everywhere - but is now working on something for the iPhone.

"We have a title we want to develop exclusively for iPhone...I'm not announcing anything specifically, but it would be a graphical tour de force," Carmack told Forbes

Anna Kang, president of id Mobile, also added her two cents to the announcement, mentioning that the game "would not be a new IP."

Care to take a guess at what we could be looking at then? A iPhone version of Doom or Quake is probably most likely, though obviously a multiplayer-capable version of Quake 3 would be the holy grail. Let's just hope it isn't Orcs and Elves, which was a pretty dry and desperate affair for id.

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