Posted 08/13/09 at 12:18:13 AM by Nathan Grayson

Pick your battles? What does that even mean? Raven Software certainly doesn’t seem to know, as it’s challenged EA’s Madden football franchise to a popularity contest. And let’s be honest here: While Wolf may be a big dog among hardcore gamers, Madden traditionally ranks as one of the top five best-selling games each and every year. If Wolfenstein does manage to pull off an upset, though, the spoils of war will be great, and – even better – Raven plans on spreading the wealth.

See, Raven Software designer Manveer Heir claims that, if Wolfenstein outsells Madden 10 in August and you’re following him on Twitter, he’ll personally pay you back the money you spent on his game. Will Wolfenstein actually score an underdog victory? Almost certainly not – but Manveer’s bold proclamation is easily one of the most interesting “marketing” techniques we’ve ever seen.

And hey, if you were struggling to decide which of the two August releases would pocket your hard-earned money, just look at it this way: If you help Wolfenstein outsell Madden, you can then use your newly refunded cash to nab Madden. So get to it, people! At the cost of one overly daring man’s livelihood, we can get two games for the price of one! Everybody (except Mr.  Heir) wins!      

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Posted 03/26/09 at 12:00:00 PM by David Murphy

Wolfenstein 3D—yes, that Wolfenstein 3D—has been a member of the open-source community since programmer and visionary John Carmack tossed the code out into the open in 1995.  That’s not news.  What is news is his successful attempt at converting the first-person-shooter, practically old enough to have run on punch cards, onto a next-generation mobile platform.  The evil Nazis are now Apple-friendly, and you can get the iPhone version of Wolfenstein 3D for a mere $5 from Apple’s application store.

And how did he do it?  Carmack didn’t just go back and start hacking into the Borland C and TASM code of the original title.  In a sense, he branched his own game: turning to an open-source variant called Wolfenstein 3D Redux, Carmack used this Wolfenstein OpenGL retrofit as the graphical basis for his mobile release.  

Click the jump to find out where you can get Wolfenstein 3D Classic… mobile... for free!

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Posted 08/01/08 at 02:23:04 AM by Norman Chan

We just got our hands on some gritty new screenshots from the next Wolfenstein game, which is being shown at this year's QuakeCon. Published by Activision and developed by Raven Software, Wolfenstein once again sends soldier BJ Blazkowicz to fight Nazis and supernatural demons in an alternate World War II. The screens show Nazi troops assembled in the dark, resistance fighters huddled in demolished buildings, and most interestingly, new map locations that have been transformed with a supernatural green tint of destruction. We don't know how these environmental shifts will occur, or how it ties with the story, but it sure looks cool!

Click through for our full gallery of full-resolution screens. 

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