Orcs & Elves to battle it out on iPhone

Hot off the heels of announcing a set of major updates to on-rails shooter Doom Resurrection, id Software's John Carmack revealed plans for a remake of Orcs & Elves specifically for iPhone.

Speaking to an audience at the company's QuakeCon event in Texas, the accomplished programmer articulated the intention to start serious work on the game before year's end.

Carmack admitted that he had wanted to embark on the project earlier, noting that id Software had begun iPhone game development later than he had hoped.

An Orcs & Elves port, he stated, would have required too much time on his part and there wasn't enough extra personnel within id to assemble a team to do the work following the launch of the App Store.

The iPhone version of Orcs & Elves is to be based on the Nintendo DS iteration of the mobile original, Carmack explained. Updated graphics and new content will join an inherited touch control scheme.