id Software has released a video celebrating its 35th anniversary, while also teasing upcoming content. Founded back in 1991 by four members of the Louisiana software company Softdisk, id Software made major technological breakthroughs in video game development, specifically on PC, redefining the first-person shooter genre several times over with the Wolfenstein, DOOM, and Quake franchises. Wolfenstein laid the groundwork for the FPS genre to follow, DOOM helped popularize the genre, and Quake became the studio’s first proper 3D FPS game.
While the founders went their separate ways following the release of Quake in 1996, the studio continued to develop first-person shooter titles in the 2000s before being acquired by ZeniMax Media, the owners of Bethesda Softworks, in 2009. The studio thus publishes its games through Bethesda, and ZeniMax would later be acquired by Microsoft Gaming in 2021. Throughout all of this, id Software has continued to release several acclaimed first-person shooter games, recently launching DOOM: The Dark Ages in 2025.
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On the id Software Twitter account, the studio released a...
