When Rage, the 
long-awaited shooter from id Software, hits shelves Oct. 4, it will end a seven-year drought for the company.
The pioneering game developer is often credited with creating the first-person shooter genre through revolutionary games like 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D (often hailed as the first FPS ever) and the ever-controversial Doom, but it hasn’t produced a new game since 2004.
Blake Griffin has a lot going for him. He has 
endorsement deals with TV manufacturer Vizio, a multimillion dollar contact with the Los Angeles Clippers and sitting on his mantle at home are trophies for the 2011 NBA Slam Dunk Contest and NBA Rookie of the Year.
But what the guy really wants, it seems, is to fight mutants and in id Software’s upcoming shooter, Rage. And he’s making his case in a hilarious new video that includes motion-capture, dribble-drives and, yes, a tiger getting dunked on.
Long the domain of garage and independent developers, the iPhone 
is starting to lure over some of the more familiar names from the Xbox 360. They’re eager to see what they can do on Apple’s iOS, but might that mean they’re thinking about abandoning the console world?
As 2010 drew to a close, a pair of top-tier iOS games hit the app store — id Software’s Rage and Epic Games’ Infinity Blade. Both let players see a console-quality graphics engine up and running on a portable device. But for the developers, it was the chance to return (in some ways) to the industry’s early days – in a much more dramatic fashion than independent or Xbox Live arcade games allow for.
September is shaping up to be a bullet-ridden
month for the video game industry — with three of the year’s most anticipated shooter games scheduled to land at retail.
Microsoft announced Wednesday that Gears of War 3 will release on Sept. 20. That’s just one week after id Software’s long-in-the-works shooter Rage is expected to hit the streets and a little over two weeks after Sony will release Resistance 3.
Rage HD is definitely not an app for children, but 
it is, hands down, the best looking app on the iPad (and iPhone — as a separate version of the same game is also available for other Apple iDevices). Id’s graphics engine was built for the current generation of consoles, and the fact it transitions so smoothly to Apple’s products is a technological achievement. The game itself is a standard “on rails” shooter — where the player only has to worry about aiming, not walking. That prevents you from exploring, which is a bit frustrating, but you’re so busy trying to stay alive that the point quickly becomes moot. While extraordinarily violent, the game also shows a sense of humor, with the Mutant Bash TV host interjecting comments from time to time. It’s not something you want your children to play, but adults who enjoy action games will likely have fun.
Chris Morris: Journalist 