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id Software is an American video game developer founded in 1991 by John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack, based in Richardson, Texas. A pioneer of the first-person shooter genre with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake; acquired by ZeniMax Media in 2009 and now part of Microsoft via the 2021 ZeniMax acquisition.

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Bethesda union slams Xbox for offering the 'bare legal minimum in terms of severance'in newsletter2026-07-23

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