Today Wolfenstein 3D turns 20! And to celebrate id Software has made it free on both iOS and in browser. Which is cool and all, but not quite as cool as John Carmack providing a director commentary of the game.  Watch and listen after the cut.

John Carmack, id Software’s genius, won this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. The programming mind behind Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake is set to receive his award on March 11th. “It’s no exaggeration to say that John Carmack and id Software have had a monumental influence on all modern 3D games, but especially the first-person shooter genre,” said GDC boss Meggan Scavio in a statement. “John is [...]

Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax has now completely bought up id Software. The reason? So id can control their own IPs. id founder John Carmack said the company was “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 [...]