Break Up Of The Century: Id Software and Activision

Usually E3 is all about the game announcements. It used to all be about the booth babes ... oh, what booth babes, but unfortunately, the ESA stopped taking viagra several years ago and dropped the booth babes from the agenda. This led an exodus of developers. Not because of the rising cost of showing your wares at E3 but because the booth babes were gone. The same too has happened with game announcements they are just not as important any more.

To prove this id Software have led the charge to announce that it has broken up with long time partner Activision and is now in bed with Electronic Arts. Seems like the progress we are making towards creating the UberDeveloper just took a side step.

The unfortunate thing about this announcement is that everything EA touches turns to shit. John Carmack seems to think that EA's shit smells pretty nice and has jumped on board. This is a real shame.