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id Software LLC (see Company name) is an American video game developer headquartered in Dallas, Texas. [1]

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Activision

Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher.

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Adaptive tile refresh

Adaptive tile refresh is a computer graphics technique for side-scrolling video games.

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Adrian Carmack

Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is one of the four founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation).

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American McGee

American James McGee (born December 13, 1972) is an American game designer.

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American McGee's Alice

American McGee's Alice is a third-person psychological horror action-adventure platform video game released for PC on December 6, 2000.

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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is a conference held annually by Apple Inc. in San Jose, California.

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Atari Jaguar

The Atari Jaguar is a home video game console that was developed by Atari Corporation.

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Avalanche Studios

Fatalist Development AB, doing business as Avalanche Studios, is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm.

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Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland.

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Brink (video game)

Brink is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Catacomb 3-D

Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is the third in the Catacomb series of video games (created by the founders of id Software), and the first of these games to feature 3D computer graphics.

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Chief technology officer

A Chief Technology Officer (CTO), sometimes known as a Chief Technical Officer, is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupation is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization.

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Columbine High School

Columbine High School (CHS) is a high school in Columbine, Colorado, United States.

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Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, in the Denver metropolitan area.

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Commander Keen

Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software.

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Computer programming

Computer programming is the process of building and designing an executable computer program for accomplishing a specific computing task.

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Crack dot Com

Crack dot Com was a computer game development company co-founded by ex-id Software programmer Dave Taylor, and Jonathan Clark.

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Daikatana

John Romero's Daikatana is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo 64, and released in 2000.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dangerous Dave

Dangerous Dave is a 1988 computer game by John Romero.

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Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion

Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (also known as Dangerous Dave 2 and under the Froggman title, Rooms of Doom) is a 1991 sequel of the computer game Dangerous Dave.

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Dave Taylor (game programmer)

Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming.

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Devolver Digital

Devolver Digital, Inc. is an American video game publisher and film distributor based in Austin, Texas, which is primarily associated with the Serious Sam and Hotline Miami series.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom (typeset as DOOM in official documents and stylized as DooM in other media) is a 1993 first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software.

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Doom (2016 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Doom (film)

Doom is a 2005 American science fiction action horror film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and written by David Callaham and Wesley Strick, loosely based on the video game series of the same name created by id Software.

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Doom (franchise)

The Doom (stylized as DOOM) franchise is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by id Software, and related novels, comics, board games, and film adaptation.

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Doom (novel series)

The Doom novel series is a series of four near-future science fiction novels co-written by Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver; Knee-Deep in the Dead, Hell on Earth, Infernal Sky, and Endgame.

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Doom 3

Doom 3 (stylized as DOOM3) is a survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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Doom 3: Maelstrom

Doom 3: Maelstrom is the second book in a series of three novels regarding Doom 3.

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Doom 3: Worlds on Fire

Doom 3: Worlds on Fire (released on February 26, 2008) is the first book in a planned series of three novels.

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Doom engine

id Tech 1, also known as Doom engine, is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth.

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Doom II

Doom II: Hell on Earth is a first-person shooter video game, the second title of id Software's Doom franchise.

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Doom RPG

Doom RPG is a mobile phone game developed by id Software and Fountainhead Entertainment.

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Doomguy

The Marine, commonly known as Doomguy and referred to as the Doom Slayer in the 2016 reboot of ''Doom'', is the unnamed player character in the Doom series of first-person shooters created by id Software, and its sequels and spin-off media.

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Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Electronic Entertainment Expo

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly referred to as E3, is a premier trade event for the video game industry.

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest).

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Ensemble Studios

Ensemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company by Tony Goodman, Rick Goodman, Bruce Shelley, Brian Sullivan and John Boog-Scott, and was acquired by Microsoft in 2001 and operated as an internal studio until 2009, when its development capabilities was officially disbanded, now it operates as support.

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Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc. (formerly Potomac Computer Systems and later Epic MegaGames, Inc.) is an American video game and software development corporation based in Cary, North Carolina.

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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were two American spree killers and mass murderers who killed 13 people and wounded 24 others armed with firearms and knives on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.

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First-person shooter

First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.

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Gamasutra

Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.

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Game demo

A game demo is a freely distributed piece of an upcoming or recently released video game.

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Game design

Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes.

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Game engine

A game engine is a software development environment designed for people to build video games.

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Game programming

Game programming, a subset of game development, is the software development of video games.

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Gathering of Developers

Gathering of Developers, Inc. (also referred to as G.O.D., GodGames and Gathering) was an American video game publisher based in New York City.

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George Broussard

George Broussard is an American video game producer and designer, one of the creators of the Duke Nukem series (Todd Replogle, Allen Blum, and Scott Miller being the others).

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Greater Good Science Center

The Greater Good Science Center (GGSC), located at the University of California, Berkeley is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the scientific understanding of individual happiness, compassion, strong social bonding, and altruistic behavior.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

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Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University.

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Heretic (video game)

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in 1994.

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Hexen II

Hexen II is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software from 1996 to 1997, published by id Software and distributed by Activision.

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software through GT Interactive Software on October 30, 1995.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Horst-Wessel-Lied

"" (English: "Horst Wessel Song"), also known by its opening words, "" ("The Flag on High"), was used as the anthem of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945.

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Hovertank 3D

Hovertank 3D, also known under a variety of other names (Hovertank, Hovertank 3-D or Hovertank One), is a vehicular combat game developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in April, 1991.

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IBM PC compatible

IBM PC compatible computers are computers similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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Id Tech

id Tech is a series of separate game engines designed and developed by id Software.

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Id Tech 3

id Tech 3, popularly known as the Quake III Arena engine, is a game engine developed by id Software for their video game Quake III Arena.

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Id Tech 4

id Tech 4, popularly known as the Doom 3 engine, is a game engine developed by id Software and first used in the video game Doom 3.

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Id Tech 5

id Tech 5 is a proprietary game engine released by id Software.

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Id, ego and super-ego

The id, ego, and super-ego are three distinct, yet interacting agents in the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche.

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Independent video game development

Independent video game development, or indie game development, is the video game development process of creating indie games; these are video games, commonly created by individual or small teams of video game developers and usually without significant financial support of a video game publisher or other outside source.

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Ion Storm

Ion Storm, L.P. was an American video game developer founded by video game industry veterans John Romero and Tom Hall, both formerly of id Software.

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IPhone

iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPhone line of products use Apple's iOS mobile operating system software.

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John Carmack

John D. Carmack (born August 20, 1970) is an American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman.

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John Romero

Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967) is an American director, designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry.

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Kevin Cloud

Kevin Cloud is a computer games graphic designer from Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Lead programmer

A lead programmer is a software engineer in charge of one or more software projects.

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Level design

Level design, environment design, or game mapping is a discipline of game development involving creation of video game levels—locales, stages, or missions.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Linux gaming

Linux gaming refers to playing and developing video games for the Linux operating system, involving a Linux kernel–based operating system, often used for all computing tasks like surfing the web, office applications, desktop publishing, but also for gaming.

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Linux Journal

Linux Journal is a monthly technology magazine published by Linux Journal, LLC.

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Loki Entertainment

Loki Entertainment Software, Inc. was a video game developer based in Tustin, California, United States, that ported several video games from Microsoft Windows to Linux.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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MachineGames

MachineGames Sweden AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Uppsala.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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MacOS

macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

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Mail order

Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery.

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Marty Stratton

Marty Stratton is an executive producer for id Software.

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Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on the video-game company's co-founders John D. Carmack and John Romero.

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Matthew Costello

Matthew John Costello (born 1948) is an American horror, Gothic, and science fiction writer.

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Mesquite, Texas

The city of Mesquite is a suburb located east of Dallas, Texas.

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Michael Abrash

Michael Abrash is a programmer and technical writer specializing in code optimization and 80x86 assembly language, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Zen of Assembly Language Volume 1: Knowledge and a monthly column in Dr. Dobb's Journal in the early 1990s.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Mike Wilson (executive)

Michael S. "Mike" Wilson (born 1970), is a business executive and filmmaker.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television.

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Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Nintendo DS

The Nintendo DS, or simply DS, is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and released by Nintendo.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Oculus VR

Oculus VR is an American technology company founded by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell in July 2012 in Irvine, California, now based in Menlo Park.

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Oklahoma City bombing

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Orcs & Elves

Orcs & Elves is a adventure role-playing video game for the mobile phone and Nintendo DS.

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Phoronix

Phoronix is a technology website that offers insights regarding the development of the Linux kernel, product reviews, interviews, and news regarding free and open-source software by monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list or interviews.

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Platform game

A platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre and subgenre of action game.

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Prey (2006 video game)

Prey is a first-person shooter survival horror video game developed by Human Head Studios, under contract for 3D Realms, and published by 2K Games, while the Xbox 360 version was ported by Venom Games.

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Quake (series)

Quake is a series of first-person shooter video games, starting with the game of the same name.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive in 1996.

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Quake 4

Quake 4 is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game, the fourth title in the ''Quake'' series.

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Quake engine

The Quake engine is the game engine developed by id Software to power their 1996 video game Quake.

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Quake II

Quake II is a first-person shooter video game released in December 1997.

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Quake II engine

The Quake II engine is a game engine developed by id Software for use in their 1997 first-person shooter Quake II.

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Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena is a multiplayer-focused first-person shooter video game released in December 1999.

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Quake Live

Quake Live is a first-person shooter video game by id Software.

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QuakeCon

QuakeCon is a yearly convention held by ZeniMax Media to celebrate and promote the major franchises of id Software and other studios owned by ZeniMax.

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QuakeWorld

QuakeWorld (abbreviated QW) is an update to id Software's seminal multiplayer deathmatch game, Quake, that enhances the game's multiplayer features (namely UDP support) to allow people with dial-up modems to achieve greatly improved responsiveness when playing on Internet game servers.

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Rage (video game)

Rage (stylized as RAGE) is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software, released in November 2010 for iOS and later October 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360.

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Rage 2

Rage 2 is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Avalanche Studios in conjunction with id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Raven Software

Raven Software (or Raven Entertainment Software, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Wisconsin and founded in 1990.

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Reboot (fiction)

In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established fictional universe, work, or series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning.

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Rescue Rover

Rescue Rover is a puzzle video game that was developed by id Software and published by Softdisk in 1991.

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 19, 2001 for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh.

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Richardson, Texas

Richardson is a principal city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Rise of the Triad

Rise of the Triad: Dark War is a first-person shooter video game, developed and published by Apogee Software (3D Realms) in 1994.

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Robert Prince (video game composer)

Robert C. Prince III, also known as Bobby Prince, is an American composer and sound designer.

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Roger Avary

Roger Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and producer.

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Samuel Hadida

Samuel Hadida, born December 17, 1953, in Casablanca, Morocco, is a film producer.

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Sandy Petersen

Carl Sanford Joslyn "Sandy" Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is an American game designer.

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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School shooting

A school shooting is an attack at an educational institution, such as a school or university, involving the use of a firearm(s).

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scott Miller (entrepreneur)

Scott Miller (born 1961 in Florida) is an American video game designer, programmer, and entrepreneur best known for founding Apogee Software, Ltd.

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Shacknews

Shacknews, commonly referred to as "The Shack", is a website offering news, features, editorial content, and forums relating to computer games and console games.

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Shadow Knights

Shadow Knights - The Shogun of Death (Also known as "Budo - The Art of Ninja Combat") is a platform game created by id Software and published by Softdisk in.

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ShadowCaster

ShadowCaster is a first-person/role-playing video game from 1993 developed by Raven Software.

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Shareware

Shareware is a type of proprietary software which is initially provided free of charge to users, who are allowed and encouraged to make and share copies of the program.

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Shawn Green (game designer)

Shawn C. Green is a video game developer who is best known for his work in the Doom and Hexen series for id Software and for 3D Realms.

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Shooter game

Shooter games are a subgenre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 122nd-largest city in the United States.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Silent Hill (film)

Silent Hill is a 2006 Canadian-French supernatural psychological horror film directed by Christophe Gans and written by Roger Avary, Gans, and Nicolas Boukhrief.

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Slashdot

Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds.

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Softdisk

Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Source code

In computing, source code is any collection of code, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text.

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Source port

A source port is a software project based on the source code of a game engine that allows the game to be played on operating systems or computing platforms with which the game was not originally compatible.

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Spicy Horse

Spicy Horse was a Shanghai-based independent video game developer started by American McGee, Anthony Jacobson, and Adam Lang in 2007.

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Strife (1996 video game)

Strife (also known as Strife: Quest for the Sigil) is a first-person shooter role-playing video game developed by Rogue Entertainment.

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Studio manager

Studio manager, studio director, or head of studio, is a job title in various media-related professions, including design, advertising, and broadcasting.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company"daughter company.

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Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES, and colloquially shortened to Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America.

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Swastika

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it has been and remains a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, Chinese religions, Mongolian and Siberian shamanisms.

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Technology & Engineering Emmy Award

A Technology and Engineering Emmy Award is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for outstanding achievement in technical or engineering development.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (typeset as the escapist) is an online magazine covering mostly video games as well as movies, comics, TV, and more.

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Tim Willits

Tim Willits is the studio director, level designer and former co-owner of video game developer id Software.

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Timothee Besset

Timothée Besset is a French software programmer, (also known as TTimo), best known for supporting Linux, as well as some Macintosh, ports of id Software's products.

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Todd Hollenshead

Todd Hollenshead is the former President and CEO of id Software.

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Todd Replogle

Todd Jason Replogle (born 1969) is an American video game programmer, best known as the co-creator of the Duke Nukem series.

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Tom Hall

Tom A. Hall (born September 2, 1964) is a game designer born in Wisconsin.

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Trent Reznor

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and film score composer.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education (ED or DoED), also referred to as the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government.

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United States Secret Service

The United States Secret Service (also USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, charged with conducting criminal investigations and protecting the nation's leaders.

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Unreal Engine

The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play.

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Video game controversies

Video game controversies are societal and scientific arguments about whether the content of video games changes the behavior and attitudes of a player, and whether this is reflected in video game culture overall.

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Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer that specializes in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

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Video game industry

The video game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of video games.

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Video game programmer

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools.

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Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Virtual reality headset

A virtual reality headset is a head-mounted device that provides virtual reality for the wearer.

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Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006.

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Wolfenstein

Wolfenstein is a series of World War II video games, originally developed by Muse Software.

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Wolfenstein (2009 video game)

Wolfenstein is a 2009 first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision as part of the long-running Wolfenstein video game series.

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Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen.

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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is an action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free and open source multiplayer first-person shooter video game set during World War II.

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Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The New Order is an action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is an action-adventure first-person shooter video game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games was a section of the Yahoo! website, launched on March 31, 1998, in which Yahoo! users could play games either with other users or by themselves.

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ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.

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1992 Los Angeles riots

The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, and the Battle of Los Angeles, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics or three-dimensional computer graphics, (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images.

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3D Realms

Apogee Software, Ltd., since 1996 doing business as 3D Realms, is an American video game developer and publisher based in Garland, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software

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