"For the week ending August 15, DOOM 3 also was the #1 best-selling PC game in France, according to GfK; the #1 game in Germany, according to Media Control; and the #1 game in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, according to Manual Sweden, Manual Denmark and Manual Norway.

"DOOM 3 continues id Software's legacy of setting a new benchmark in PC gaming with every game it develops," said Ron Doornink, President and CEO, Activision Publishing. "The game has been critically acclaimed worldwide and we expect momentum to continue as it releases in new territories."

"Now with regards to game development on Linux, where do you see its strengths and weaknesses, areas it needs to improve on, areas where it could be more useful that people tend to overlook?

Development environments are still an issue; I took the extra time to learn Emacs lately, and I think I'm really happy with it now, so I'm probably going to stick to that. I tried a lot of IDE's out there, and I've always been disappointed; for instance, Eclipse. I've seen IBM throw lots of money at Eclipse, but it's still Java and really slow, and it's probably very good to do Java work, but to do C++ I was really not convinced at all. There's the GNOME Development Environment, but it's completely oriented to people writing GNOME applications; they think about their own window environment instead of thinking general application development. Emacs is a bit more, "we don't care what you do or even if you're doing daemon and console applications, we just provide a good environment." It's really a great tool - you understand afterwards why it's so successful, why so many people talk about it, once you get the time to learn it. It's a really cool editor."

"GameSpy: So how does DOOM: The Boardgame play? How many players?

Kevin Wilson: We have up to four players and one of them plays The Invader. He controls the monsters. The other players play marines and they have to work together to defeat the monsters and exit through the red door. The scenarios have descriptions and item locations, and places to put monsters. The Invader gets to play cards that summon monsters and he controls them as they attack the player. If he kills a player, he gets a frag. Also the scenarios are timed, if he gets through the deck and the players haven't one, he gets a frag."

"It's probably not going to come out this year," Hollenshead told Reuters today. "Back in May, we were kind of hoping we'd have a holiday launch. I'm not sure we're going to get there." Previously, Hollenshead had not leaned one way or the other, offering only neutral statements such as, "It is still up in the air" or "We can't say, at this point, that it's going to come out this year."

"IGNPC: At the Game Developer Conference (GDC) keynote speech back in March, Carmack mentioned that, with each additional game you've worked on, it took longer and longer to develop, and the impression I got was that he was becoming more and more frustrated and that this new rendering technology he's working on for the next game might be his last.

Todd Hollenshead: Well, that would really be a question for John, but he hasn't said anything like that, to me, anyway. He's actually working on new stuff for the Doom 3 technology. Literally, as late as about six weeks before it went gold was when he added in some substantial new features, such as the heat shimmer effect and is already making changes to the engine for what we're going to work on next. I don't know if he's going to rewrite the renderer or not but, ultimately, I think that he's excited about he can do in the future with the renderers. Doom 3 did take a long time, but we certainly don't think that our next game is going to take four-plus years to develop. That's not the plan starting off.

There are a few reasons why it did take so long for Doom 3 to be done, one of which is that the media requirements for a game as big Doom 3 were just very large, and we needed to have a bigger team, and we did ultimately end up with a bigger team finishing the game than when we started on it. The second thing is that¿the term is over-used, but when John architected the rendering technology, it really was a different paradigm in 3D FPS rendering. Whenever you have something that's brand-new like that, there's a learning curve, and the learning curve in this case is compounded by the fact that we didn't have mature tool sets to work with starting off, and also compounded by the fact that it was so dramatically different from the way that we did stuff--even changes from Quake to Quake II to Quake III were obviously significant, but not nearly so significant as the change from Quake III to Doom 3. It was easily at least as big of a difference to go from, say, Doom II to Quake."

"While the performance with these cards isn¿t as high as the others, testing them is a little easier, as we feel that for most of these cards DOOM 3¿s medium quality mode provides the most ideal combination of visual quality to performance -- dropping down to DOOM 3¿s low quality mode yields a negligible performance increase for the most part."

"The first choice we had to make was what video card driver to use on our notebook that contained discrete graphics via the ATI Mobility 9600 64mb chip. We couldn't make up our minds so we went ahead and used four different drivers to see which worked best. We went with the official ASUS V8.01 (this is officially the correct and latest driver for the ASUS M6N notebook). We then modded ATI CATALYST Drivers version 4.7, 4.8, and 4.9 Beta for use on our notebook.

If you are wondering how we installed CATALYST drivers on our notebook you will need to download a simple program called DH Mod tool V2.0b. Without the mod program when you try to install a CATALYST driver onto a notebook it will give you an error prompt saying INF not found. That's where the mod tool comes in. Simply run the mod tool and point it to the install files and it will modify them to install on your notebook. The above screen shot shows the video card properties with the original ASUS driver on the left and the just released ATI CATALYST 4.8 driver on the right after we installed them via the mod tool."

"Nearly seven years and four games later came the announcement that id was working on Doom 3. Anticipation grew, naturally. Doom 3 could easily be called one of the most anticipated games of all time, or at least, recent times. As the senior editor of Game Informer, Matt Helgeson, said ever so adequately, ¿Doom 3 has slightly lower expectations around it than the Second Coming of Jesus." Couldn¿t have put it better myself, Mr. Helgeson, and I must say: I put things fairly well."