After nearly a decade and a half in hiatus, Dangerous Dave is back in his latest adventure for the mobile phones. Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion is a remake of the classic title created by John Romero and John Carmack and features all the good old 2D side-scrolling action that made the Dangerous Dave brand such a big hit back then. More information about this in our full article.

Id Software, the guys responsible for Doom and Quake, recently branched out to create Id Mobile, who in turn will be developing games for mobile phones, the DS and the PSP. They recently came out with Orcs & Elves for the DS. So what are their plans now? Wolfenstein on your mobile phone. Read more in the full article.

Renowned video game development studio id Software Fountainhead Entertainment announced today a new partnership that will bring about the new division id Mobile. This new department is tasked to come up with games for mobile phones, Nintendo DS, and the Sony PlayStation Portable.

Prior to this official team up, the two companies have already collaborated before. Some of their games worth mentioning include Orcs & Elves for DS as well as Orcs & Elves II and Doom RPG for mobile phones. The full details after the jump!

The recent IDF Taiwan developer's forum yielded a very interesting demonstration of Intel's new mobile quad-core CPUs, just in time for their planned mass-production in 2008. The new quad-core chip is powered by 840 million transistors and uses a power envelop of 45W, which will pose a problem to laptop battery life.

Intel's new chip, slated to be included in Intel's Core 2 Extreme series, is still in its early stages but it was able to run Enemy Territory: Quake Wars by id Software for the PC quite flawlessly during the keynote speech delivered by Mooly Eden, vice president of Intel.

The mobile quad-core chip is still in need of a better cooling system, however, but Eden stated in his keynote presentation that they are doing something about the cooling technology, and Intel already has a new strategy in cooling notebooks. Said cooling strategy will involve using the same cooling method used in compressors in refrigerators and air conditioners.

Paul Steed, former artist for id Software's first in the Quake franchise, is now Chief Creative Officer at Exigent, an Indian game outsourcing firm. No longer drawing gorgeous pixels for your VGA screen, Steed is now educating Indians and encouraging them to make games for the western market.

We know you're probably asking, "What in the world is he doing there?" In an interview with "The Art of Gaming" haven Gamasutra, he revealed his revelation of the business of outsourcing and how he got interested in it.

After leaving Atari last September, he moved on to Exigent, and hoped to tap into the productivity potential in the Asians' love for games.

But more importantly, he sees that the future of the game industry rests on the mobile game and the PC. He said that there are more computers and cellphones in the world than consoles and "[that will] never change." In fact, he believes once his company goes from outsourcing only to part developer studio "Exigent Interactive," they will be only focused on games for the PC. He defended his position, saying, ""That’s what’s most accessible for audiences."

Steed also spoke about Sony and the PSP. And guess what, PSP folks: he says that "Sony just lost focus" on the PSP. In the defense of his opinion, he added, "They tried to do too much with it. And God, the price. You look at the PSP and you’re like, 'Hey, do you even realize your portable costs as much as Nintendo’s next-gen home system?'"

Piracy is commonly frowned upon by most members of the game industry - but not by Paul Steed. We'll let him explain his two cents worth on the (overrated?) issue of piracy:

My take on piracy is kind of weird. I know I can’t stop it, so I don’t try to stop it. I just try to create a whole fanbase. If you can buy it, buy it. I was in China and I saw a copy of my book ... my first book, translated in Chinese and it had my name on it, and I was like, 'Well, at least they put my name on it!' I don’t think people mean to steal when they pirate your stuff. I just don’t think they realize that it only increases the price.

He also said something about casual gaming, although it's a bit "nit-picky" on the fairer gender of gamers. We'll leave it to you, oh curious web surfers, to hop right to the interview and read it for yourself, via the "Read" link below.

Electronic Arts announced today that id Software's Orcs and Elves is now available for download all across Europe. The award-winning title from id Software and Fountainhead Entertainment was developed exclusively for mobile phones.

Following the success of Doom RPG, Orcs & Elves is an epic mobile adventure title that utilizes the next generation Doom RPG graphics engine, resulting in absorbing gameplay coupled with breathtaking attention to detail. Gamers are immersed in an original fantasy universe, combining both first-person action adventures with mind bending puzzles in the ultimate example of good versus evil.

"With Orcs & Elves we were able to take what was great about Doom RPG, and bring tons of new features to the experience in a brand new world," said John Carmack, founder and technical director, id Software. "The pace of development in mobile gaming allows us to evolve by leaps and bounds each year, rather than stretched out over four years like a high end PC or console game."

With over 35 vicious enemies to defeat, each with their own unique A.I. and personality, Orcs & Elves offers hours of continuous spellbinding gameplay and even more hours of replayability. Players will explore an ancient Dwarven fortress riddled with legendary beasts and untold treasures. Wielding mystical weapons, gamers must use their wits to solve the devious puzzles and deadly traps to survive the dangers in Orcs and Elves.