Carmack Doom-ed to Lifetime Achievement Award

Thanks to seminal early-'90s hits such as Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein, id Software essentially invented the first-person shooter genre as the industry currently knows it. Beyond being pioneers in the field of real-time 3D graphics, id's early software lineup also contributed to the proliferation of such standard features as networked multiplayer matches.

Now, the man behind the technology that powered those early shooters will have one more honor to add to his mantel, as Game Developers Conference showrunners UBM TechWeb Game Network announced today that it would honor id chief technical officer John Carmack with a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards.

Carmack will receive the accolade at the GDCAs, which will take place on March 11 in San Francisco as part of GDC 2010. The studio, which was purchased by Bethesda Softworks parent company Zenimax Media in June 2009, is currently work on the all-new intellectual property Rage, as well as Doom 4 and a free-to-play Web browser-based version of Quake, which is currently in a beta-testing phase.