Doom Creators Bought by Fallout makers

Imagine Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard... all in one company. The dream became reality in one ID bought by ZenMax

big shock.

Gaming industry witnesses a new era of greatness as two of the most acclaimed game development studios of all time are joining forces. ZeniMax Media,the parent company of Fallout 3 and the highly acclaimed Elder Scrolls development studio Bethesda Softworks, announced today that it is purchasing legendary Doom and Wolfenstein studio id soft.

id co-founder John Carmack, id CEO Todd Hollenshead and ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman commented that the purchase will change none of the principles of id and Bethesda but will allow id to grow like it never has before. The purchase does not affect plans for previously announced games from id that are slated for release through other publishers, including the Activision-backed Wolfenstein and the EA Partners-planned Rage.

As for the million dollar question - Why did id sell? ZeniMax Buys ID and merges Bethesda

Carmac justified by saying "We're really getting kind of tired competing with our own publishers in terms of how our titles will be featured,And we've really gotten more IPs than we've been able to take advantage of. And working with other companies hasn't been working out as spectacularly as it could. So the idea of actually becoming a publisher and merging Bethesda and ZeniMax on there [is ideal.] It would be hard to imagine a more complementary relationship. They are triple A, top-of-the-line in what they do in the RPGs. And they have no overlap with all the things we do in the FPSes."

Hollenshead pointed that ZeniMax's acquisition will allow id to grow its internal teams, staffing up the groups working on the next Doom — which will now be a ZeniMax game — and for starters,the Quake Live team.

The goal, explained Carmack, is for id to handle all of its own IPs. "We can build the pipeline and have a regular pipeline of releases."

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