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Imagine Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard... all in one company. The dream became reality in one  big shock. Gaming industry witnesses a new era of greatness as two of the most acclaimed game development studios of all time are joining forces. ZeniMax Media,the parent company of Fallout 3 and the highly acclaimed Elder Scrolls development studio Bethesda Softworks, announced today that it is purchasing legendary Doom and Wolfenstein studio id soft. id co-founder John Carmack, id CEO Todd Hollenshead and ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman commented that the purchase will change none of the principles of id and Bethesda but will allow id to grow like it never has before. The purchase does not affect plans for previously announced games from id that are slated for release through other publishers, including the Activision-backed Wolfenstein and the EA Partners-planned Rage. As for the million dollar question - Why did id sell? Carmac justified by saying "We're really getting kind of tired competing with our own publishers in terms of how our titles will be featured,And we've really gotten more IPs than we've been able to take advantage of. And working with other companies hasn't been working out as spectacularly as it could. So the idea of actually becoming a publisher and merging Bethesda and ZeniMax on there [is ideal.] It would be hard to imagine a more complementary relationship. They are triple A, top-of-the-line in what they do in the RPGs. And they have no overlap with all the things we do in the FPSes." Hollenshead pointed that ZeniMax's acquisition will allow id to grow its internal teams, staffing up the groups working on the next Doom — which will now be a ZeniMax game — and for starters,the Quake Live team. The goal, explained Carmack, is for id to handle all of its own IPs. "We can build the pipeline and have a regular pipeline of releases." In short - ID + Bethesda = Pure Awsummness!!!! Amen :)    
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Yesterday I installed Vmware and tested Ubuntu Linux on it,however being a keyboard ninja,I felt clunked whenever I hit the Windows key (another windows habit of bringing Start Menu) to bring the Ubuntu Panel at the top of screen as nothing happened at that time. Ubuntu Panel is a dropdown menu which is used to launch applications, which is quite similar to the way Windows has the start menu. However If you are a windows user new to Ubuntu, you might want to have the windows key launch the applications menu. Thankfully this is an easy thing to do in Ubuntu. Go to the System \ Preferences \ Keyboard Shortcuts menu item: 
Scroll down till you see the "Show the panel menu" item,click in the Shortcut column, and when it changes to "New accelerator…", hit the Windows Key. Close all windows and you're done! Now whenever you will hit the windows key (intentionally/unintentionally/for God's sake :P) , the application menu will pop up and you can navigate into it using the arrow keys. Cheers and Keep Learning POSTED BY XERO.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.SOURCE  
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