YOU'RE FIRED!

Today's DoomWorld News Headlines point to this article confirming Bethesda/ZeniMax "layoffs"* in the id Software department responsible for the game RAGE.

I guess you can't release games full of bugs and keep your job, after all...

*In quotes because the last job from which I was "laid off" like two years ago has never called me back to work and the building is in fact now a pile of rubble. In today's workforce, "laid off" has simply become a gentler way to tell workers they're fired.

STEAM SALE

No, I haven't suddenly become a flag-waving Steam patriot. But even I have to admit that one of the easiest ways to legally acquire almost all of the games I've ever discussed here is to download them from Steam. Thus I thought it would be worth mentioning that the internet gaming icon is having its usual holiday sale, which includes some good prices on just about everything ever published by id. So if there are any holes in your collection that you've been looking to fill, this could be a good opportunity. In my case the sale is too late to be of any benefit; I bought the id Super Pack almost two years ago when it was $69.99. While I've been a collector of all things Doom for quite some time, I realized that I didn't own a single Quake game and thus made my first ever Steam purchase. But if you're like me and are fairly certain that all the "Santas" in your life have absolutely no clue what you'd actually want for a gift this year, now might be the time to do some shopping for a gift or two for yourself.