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Apparently John Carmack rewrites game engine code quickly.

Less than a week ago, we reported that the Doom 3 source code was approved for release, but temporarily delayed due to a potential copyright infringement. John Carmack stated an intention to rewrite the section of code in question to ready the source for release. Work must have been completed in a timely fashion, as the source code is now readily available through GitHub.

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The legendary developer has some shocking comments.

id is a company that has been synonymous with the PC since its inception. The company that brought the world Doom and Quake has always pushed the PC as the lead platform for their games. Even though Doom 3 was released on the Xbox about six months after the PC launch, id had never gone fully multiplatform on day one until the release of Rage last week. While the 360 and PS3 versions are stable, there have been plenty of issues with the PC version of the game. John Carmack, the co-founder of id and driving force behind the company’s game engines, spoke out about those issues recently.

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Driver issues to blame.

Rage, which came out today, has been having problems on the PC. Besides the normal little hiccups associated with PC gaming, Rage is experiencing screen tearing and slow-loading textures. According to the Bethesda blog, these problems are attributed to driver issues, and the company is working with AMD and Nvidia to iron out these issues.

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