New id Game In The Works - PC, Xbox 360, PS3

With Quake Wars: Enemy Territories just around the corner, what better time to announce a new game.

Thought up by John Carmack himself, the lead creator behind Doom, Quake and Commander Keen, the new game will not be anything like the aforementioned.

"It is a new id brand with an all-new John Carmack engine and I think that when we show it to people," says Todd Hollenshead, a developer at id Software. "Once again they will see, just like they saw when we first showed Doom 3 that John Carmack still has a lot of magic left."

"Our first task at id is as a single studio developer," Hollenshead continued. "That is really where everything spawns from. Because John Carmack is a programming genius, who in my opinion is unequalled in video games today, he makes a great technology that we can use across a wide range of applications and different games within our suite of franchises.

"The new stuff that we are working on does have a brand new engine that John has been working on, actually is still working on today. We can’t really talk any details about it; we will see about when the timing is right for an announcement. We like to be able to talk about stuff that we can show at the same time and it is not really ready to show yet."

An official announcement of the new game is expected later in the year.

Images are of Quake 4 on Xbox 360.