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Creator Of Video Game Doom Helps Build A Rocket… Which Then Flies To 140,000 Feet

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3:45PM December 7, 2011 | Mark Serrels

You may or may not know this, but John Carmack — one of the creators of Doom, Quake and now RAGE — is a pretty full-on rocket enthusiast and actually taught himself aerospace engineering. Now the company he founded himself, Armadillo Aerospace, has built a new reusable suborbital sounding rocket. And it bloody hit 140,000 feet above sea level! More »


Gaming

id Unleashes Impressive Rage On The iPhone

7:16AM August 13, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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During his keynote speech at QuakeCon 2010, id Software’s John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone, running at 60 frames-per-second and able to “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2″. More »


Gaming

The iPhone Now Officially Runs Doom

9:00AM November 1, 2009 | Chris Jacob

id’s classic shooter has finally been (officially) ported to the iPhone. And with oversight from John Carmack himself, there are a number of improvements that make it worth a purchase even for Jailbreakers. More »


Science

John Carmack’s Armadillo Finally Wins Lunar Landing Challenge

12:00AM September 15, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

After crashing the last time, Armadillo Aerospace won the $US1 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this Saturday. Needless to say, Doom-creator, Armadillo’s head, and überspacenerd John Carmack was veehee happy: More »


Gaming

Doom Resurrection For IPhone Due Next Week; Here’s The Trailer

9:28PM June 11, 2009 | John Herrman

Doom Resurrection, the first full title in the series since Doom III, will be coming to the App Store next week, and iD has cut a trailer. (Spoiler: It looks great.) More »