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This week brought us a healthy amount of gaming apps including this week’s highlight: Wolfenstein 3D Classic. id’s John Carmack has been particularly noted for his desire and belief of games on the iPhone and iPod Touch and this should be the first of what many fans are hoping will be many games from the id team.

Also released was Mega Man II. Capcom finally decided that enough was enough with the game show games and released a real game on the App Store. Unfortunately, that game was Mega Man II. It may just be me but releasing a game that may make you want to throw your iPhone across the room in blind anger might not be the best release decision (but keep trying, Capcom).

At E3 2008, Activision and a representative of id announced that they are working on a follow up for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Details at the moment are hard to find, outside of the press conference given at E3.

For those of you who haven’t been too involved with the evolution of Wolfenstein, id took the franchise for a turn that made it more popular in 1992 with…

George Broussard and John Romero. Titans of another lifetime. This clip from a local newscast tries to get to the bottom of what all the kids were talking about in 1992, illustrating how neither could find that charming line between hubris and coy self-promotion.

But there’s more to this clip than just hindsight. There really is that jittery feeling of something big about to happen. The narrator’s gushing over “texture mapping” is barely half the story…