While id Software is obviously concentrating on the launch this week on Quake Live they still have a number of projects they are also working on, including iPhone projects, the upcoming Wolfenstein title with Raven Software and Activision and two internal games that will use their new idTech 5 graphics engine. One of the games is Rage (to be published by EA) and the other is id’s fourth Doom game (which won’t actually be called Doom IV).
Even though id signed with EA for Rage, our sister site Joystiq reports that they are still looking for a publisher for the next Doom title. id co-founder John Carmack states that they have some time, as the developer will “be able to get a better sense of how we think they’re (EA) doing, holding up their side of the bargain.” EA has certainly signed quite a few high profile third party developers to release their games via their company, including Valve, Epic, Crytek and others. Still id might decided to go with an entire new publisher for the next Doom game. That announcement is expected sometime in 2009.
Another Doom game? I hope this one has a better story line this time. The previous one felt like it was just a demo of graphical effects. Not much on the story side and they use the same formula/tricks as the older Doom releases. I want some suspense into it like in Dead Space.
Go to Source: http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/02/25/id-still-shopping-for-fourth-doom-game-publisher/
Via BFWGaming