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ZeniMax Media Now Owns id Software
In a bizarre, surprise move today Zenimax Media, who is the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, that you know for Fallout, bought out id Software, the famed company behind Doom and Quake. ZeniMax has said that id Software will keep their executives on board, with all of them signing long term contracts to continue their roles with the studio.The purchase also does not affect any previously announced games and plans from id which are due to be released through other publishers, including the Activision-Blizzard backed Wolfenstein and the EA backed Rage, but does give ZeniMax that capability going forward. ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman said, "Our role will be to provide publisher support through Bethesda Softworks and give id Software the resources it needs to grow and expand."
John Carmack, id Software's Technical Director, said that this lets them "grow and extend all of our franchises under one roof, leveraging our capabilities across multiple teams while enabling forward looking research to be done in the service of all of them. We will be bigger and stronger, as we recruit the best talent to help us build the landmark games of the future. As trite as it may be for me to say that I am extremely pleased and excited about this deal, I am."
This I suppose puts another nail in the coffin of the independent PC developer, and puts another point on the board for the big corporate gaming machine. It's kinda sad to see gaming go this way, but everybody's got to eat I suppose.
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