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Activision to pub Wolfenstein, EA to pub RAGE, their sequels? Not so much photo

This August, Activision is set to publish id Software and Raven Software’s Wolfenstein. Last year, Electronic Arts announced that it had reached a publishing deal to publish id Software’s upcoming genre-bender, RAGE. Yesterday, dropping jaws to the ground and throwing John Romero into a fit, Bethesda Softwork’s parent company, ZeniMax Media, announced it had acquired id Software.

So what does this mean for Wolfenstein and RAGE? Well, absolutely nothing. According to Bethesda’s Pete Hines, existing agreements for those two games still stand; Wolfenstein will be published by Activision, and Electronic Arts will publish and market RAGE as planned.

But in the future, the inevitable follow-ups to those games belong to ZeniMax.

“Neither of those companies has rights to the sequels for those games,” Bethesda’s Pete Hines clarified for us last night.

According to yesterday’s press release “no changes will be made in the operations of id Software in the development of the games. With John Carmack still behind the wheel and the core id staff still in place, we don’t expect gamers will see any obvious changes… except for the name of the publisher on the box.


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Adrian's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 08:55
Adrian
wouldnt this also give bethesda access to the id tech5 engine for future games?

Rage is a post-apocalyptic action/racing hybrid, with an engine built for large open spaces. Could be a good fit for a fallout 4 ?
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 10:39
Holyetheline
Makes sense, I suppose.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 10:57
Jon B
I can't frigging wait for RAGE to come out. Call me an id fanboy if you will.
Narishma's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2009 13:24
Narishma
MCChampaign-Millionaire: Brink isn't the first game with id tech 4. Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey and Enemy Territory Quake Wars all used id tech 4 or variations of it. If you meant id tech 5 that's not true either as Rage and the next Doom so far are the only games announced that will use it.
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