Bleszinski: id sale 'blows my mind'

Believes in the long term it will be a good thing for the Doom developer.

Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski has said that hearing id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax blew his mind.

"My mind is blown. id was always the studio I had my eyes on in the early days as far as wondering if we could be as good as them if not better," Bleszinski told Develop. "When we had Unreal Tournament they had Quake 3 which is one of those legendary showdowns between two games. To see this happen to the id guys just blows my mind."

He added: "To see the old standbys go through these kinds of changes – like with 3D Realms closing up Duke Nukem – it’s really shocking. We all came from the same mould from the shareware days; these studios have been around forever, and to see them acquired like that is a surprise."

Despite his surprise at the news, Bleszinski believes id's acquisition will in the long term be a "good thing" for the studio.

"It will add stability, it will help them leverage their properties more; but in the meantime it’s so surreal. As they say, the one constant is change," he concluded.