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Id Software, the company responsible for Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein, has established a mobile division with a view to porting all three games to mobile phones, according to USA Today. Id has done mobile games before: the Doom RPG was (and is) a turn-based version of the original 3-D violence, which sold more than a million …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    It's like 2004 all over again!

    John Carmack's been talking up the mobile games for years - anyone else remember Monkeystone's Hyperspace Delivery Boy? No? :)

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  2. Giles Jones Gold badge

    Got them all already

    Do keep up guys, there's ports of all three for pretty much every smartphone platform.

    What they could do however is sort out the control mechanism. A nice bluetooth controller would be good. Maybe use the Wiimote as others have done.

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  3. Chris Shephard
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    2004 eh?

    It sure would be, but it was John Romero who headed up Monkeystone Games. Romero left id around the Quake II era.

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  4. LordOfRuin

    Hold on, I had Doom years ago!

    I did. About four or five years ago on a Nokia. It was ace!

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  5. Steven Moore

    Monsters from the ID

    Nice play on the line from "Forbidden Planet" -- a classic film.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    lost weekends

    Doom. It's so engrained on a generation that every windows OS upto XP. Port 666 reserved for Doom.

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