Welcome to another morning edition of the US Update. I’ll be your host Nick Marshall as we go on a little tech adventure, so sit back and relax. We’ve got the latest scoop on HTC’s Sense 3.0 UI, a rumor of a Symbian Windows 7 hybrid tablet from Fujitsu and even an interview with Id Software co-founder John Carmack explaining why developing for Android is not as profitable as iOS.
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Apparently Id Software co-founder John Carmack hasn’t seen our list of Android app millionaires. In an interview with Mobiledia’s Margaret Rock, Mr. Carmack said that developing on Android is not as profitable as iOS and that few Android gamers would pay $20 per title. Android users, brace yourselves this might get a little uncomfortable.
Mutant Bash TV is the second seriously impressive iOS game we’ve been teased with this week. After Infinity Blade, it’s not quite so thrilling but hell, id has done a bang up job with the graphics. Based on the Rage engine for iOS, Mutant Bash TV will be a rails shooter with tilt control to aim and onscreen buttons to dodge, fire, reload and cycle through weapons. It’ll be a fairly cheap app when its released later this month but word is id is prepping a more full fat Rage for iOS game for 2011.
Out this month | £TBC | id software (via Touch Arcade)
The Apple iPhone is to receive a slew of id Software-related games soon, including Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein and even Rage titles, id’s John Carmack has confirmed.
id Software, the legendary videogames developer behind games including Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake, has been bought by ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks. Bethesda is responsible for recent games including Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and upcoming titles including WET, Brink and Rogue Warrior, all unveiled at E3 2009.
Doom Resurrection, a new game in the legendary Mars/Hell-set first-person shooter series, is coming to Apple iPhones next week. The game uses “downsampled” art from the PC and console hit Doom III, but is an entirely new game, with new plot unfolding across eight new levels with around five hours of gameplay. It has already been described as “one of the true next-generation games on the iPhone.”
Aptly named Wolfenstein 3D Classic has just taken up residence on the iTunes Store, available to download for iPhone and iPod Touch. The App costs a mere £2.99 and sports a whole new control interface designed to suit the multi-touch interface. Although all you actually need is forwards, back, left right and shoot.
Quake Live is opening its doors to all for the next phase of its beta testing, starting today. Quake Live is a specially adapted version of the legendary multiplayer game Quake 3: Arena, streamlined to make it playable in a web browser window, even on a low-end PC. It’s free too, so anyone can play – even while you’re at work… at least until five seconds after your network admin finds out.