For all of you Iphone owners who need other applications than super monkey ball and lightsabers to make all your non Iphone owners to feel puny and pathetic, id is considering bringing Doom to the Iphone.  John Hollenshead, id ceo, is interested in bringing over some mobile versions of doom over to the phone.

Wolfenstien rpg and Doom rpg are the titles in question that may port there way over to the Iphone.  Developers said they were unfortunately too busy to be able to create the games for the launch of the phone or the release of the newer version.  The project may not ever leave the developing room, but both parties seem very interested in bringing the games over to the phone. 

Source: Kotaku

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There was a rumor by IGN that there was a Kid Icarus game in the works.  Come E3 time, no Kid Icarus game was announced.  Actually no big franchise game was announced at all.  Nintendo released an apology for E3, stating that the big games take time and they didn't have anything to show at this time. 

Nintendo also had problems during the E3 conference as a huge percentage of their time was devoted to Mothers day cards, Wrist injuries, and people playing WiiMusic.  Okay so it may not have been that much but anytime spent on Mothers day cards at a gaming convention doesn't make much sense. 

For all of you PS3 fans who told everyone they would be sorry they got an Xbox when great games like FFXIII comes out, will be sorely disappointed today.  Square Enix announced yesterday that the highly anticipated FFXIII will go to the Xbox 360 and to the PS3.  What?!?

From official E3 releases the reason is because of Microsoft's much larger base from which to make profit off of.  Some reports show the Xbox 360 with 6 million more users.  Also they definitely want to capitalize on the Asian gaming market where Microsoft has struggled against the Wii and the PSP. 

So FFXIII is not for just Sony anymore.  With more Wii's maybe the next one will go back to Nintendo as well.

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With the economy as it is worldwide it is a prime time for mergers and buyouts as some companies remain strong and others weaken.  Currently there are two huge mergers concerning the gaming community.  Several months ago we told you that Blizzard and Activision are teaming up. After months of negotiations its finally official. Also there is a lesser known Ubisoft and Hybride deal coming together.  These two mergers can only help to strengthen an ever growing gaming industry that is already topping DVD sales for the first time ever. 

Ubisoft is acquiring Hybride which is the visual effects studio responsible for movies like 300, and Sin City.  Ubisoft is adding the movie study company to help bolster the graphics and visual effects of their games, as the industry is focusing more and more on that area.  With games such as Assassin's Creed and the Tom Clancy series, Ubisoft has already proven that they can delivery the visual effects needed to survive. 

Blizzard and Activision are teaming up to create what they call the world's most profitable gaming business, worth over 18.8 billion dollars.  Blizzard is owned by Vivendi which will now be a subsidiary of Activision even though Blizzard will own a majority of the stocks.  Suprizingly though ID, a developer owned by Activision has left them to join with EA.