I am very excited about this new game from Id, Its called Rage, incase you didnt know. Its being powered by the latest game engine from John Carmack, the Tech 5 Engine. Rage is a combat car game mixed with about 50% of the run and gun action usually seen in Id games, at least thats what John Carmack has said. If you havent been to the QuakeCon page or seen the movies of the new engine in action then I highly recommend you go and check it out here. In the Tech 5 Engine show case movies, John shows off just how easy and fast developers can add lots of details to their worlds, and the level they were showing off, which was a desert canyon, Looked absolutely amazing. It was obviously, out doors, and then during the demo he also showed off the engines interior power, he switched to a first person mode and started walking inside to an area in the middle of the level which had a guy, wholooked like a merchant, inside and the interior looked great which I expect because that is usually Id's strong point, but the guys face also looked very impressive, the animation was very nice.

At QuakeCon John also announced that they are bringing Quake 3 Arena to XBL Arcade in the form of Quake Arena Arcade, This announcement excited me alot because Quake 3 arena is one of the best online multiplayer games of all time. John also hinted at possibly bringing Quake 3 to the DS which would be awesome, but that is just something John would like to do, not going to do, so as of right now its pretty much up in the air and I think they should because seriously, anytime they can take a game like Doom, Doom 2, Quake 1-3 and bring them back out to a hot console for $10, or $30 if its on the DS, they make lots of money for something that does not take that much time or money to do, and they start to profit right away from something they made about a decade ago and have already made lots of money off of.

Here's to Id in having great success with Rage, Quake Arena Arcade, and hopefully a DS port of Quake 3.