QuakeCon id Software Keynote Coverage

ruiner5000 writes "If you are not at lucky enough to be at this year's QuakeCon, then you might be wondering what John Carmack and crew are up to. Well, John is a father of a baby boy as of yesterday, so he was not here for his traditional talk on what id is up to. Instead, he appeared on pre-recorded video, followed by normal Q and A session with other id personnel. AMDZone has full coverage of the id keynote, including some pics for your enjoyment. If you want to know about the next engine, the Xbox, OS X, and Linux ports, id's standing on piracy, or Carmack's vision of game engines for movie rendering, then give it a read." S!: There's also continuing QuakeCon coverage over at GameSpy, including a long interview with Todd Hollenshead.

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

A baby eh.. that implies he has a girlfriend.. ueber-geek has girlfriend. Oh my god, there's something wrong. Did someone open a portal to hell or something??

Where's my duct-tape?

Next Week

[TheAdventurer]

Cool, this will give me something interesting to read next week when their servers cool down. ;)

Re:Doom3 related

[Anonymous Coward]

I've already begun building extensive maps based upon Doom 2. I hope to release them =)

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Gabe Newell of Valce software recently gave birth to quadruplets.

*brain explodes*

[Jugalator]

John Carmack, great 3D engine designer, source of quotes like:

"I don't like team activities. Neither in real life, nor in computer games."
"I led a normal geek childhood... "

... father of a baby?!

What's next, CowboyNeal on a date? :-S

Re:It's not that Mac vid sucks...

[pHatidic]

That's funny, the new Nethack [nethack.org] binaries released a couple days ago run just fine on my powerbook.

Re:Huh?

[bsharitt]

A baby eh.. that implies he has a girlfriend.. ueber-geek has girlfriend. Oh my god, there's something wrong. Did someone open a portal to hell or something??

That's how Doom 3 came about.

proof

[DarthTaco]

this is proof that carmack doesn't exist anymore. he uploaded himself to his computer to make the doom engine. my friends, this is how the matrix gets started.

Re:*brain explodes*

[PetoskeyGuy]

"I don't like team activities. Neither in real life, nor in computer games."
"I led a normal geek childhood... "

... father of a baby?!

Sounds right to me.

Fathering a Baby shouldn't be a Team Activity. More of a 1 on 1 match. :o)

Re:Huh?

[anon*127.0.0.1]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Re:*brain explodes*

[Carraway]

Fathering a Baby shouldn't be a Team Activity. More of a 1 on 1 match.

Only on Slashdot would this comment be modded as informative.

Re:DOOM 3

[Bulln-Bulln]

It's unfortunate that all of their titles have been first person shooters..

Yeah, like Commander Keen..

Re:It's Nice How Respectful They Are

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like to read it myself, but their AMD "server" couldn't handle the load.