It's been a while since we heard from this guy. John Carmack chats with the ladies from CNN. It looks like id has been bitten by the MMO bug as well. Well sort of... It took John C. two days to program Orcs and Elves, a cell phone game that is, ironically, id's first new intellectual property since Quake. But his ambitions don't stop there:

To get "Orcs and Elves" made, he had to retreat to a hotel with no Internet connection, where he worked on nothing but the game for two days.

"I just sat down and programmed for the fun of it," he said. "I thought I'd get like a smoker's tick and feel the need to check e-mail, but I was pleased to find I didn't."

It seems to have paid off. "Orcs and Elves", published by Electronic Arts (Research), got a positive reception at E3, which has led to talk of a sequel. Carmack, though, has his eyes on a bigger cell phone prize.

"We're probably going to have a sequel to 'Orcs and Elves' but I'm really into the idea of a massively multiplayer cell phone title," he said. "I have absolutely no interest in going and competing with Blizzard in the high end of that market, but a cell phone version might be interesting."