id Software's PR group have announced Carmack is to receive a star on the Walk of Game:

Legendary game developer and id Software co-owner and technical director, John Carmack, will be awarded a star for Lifetime Achievement on Walk of Game on Thursday, March 16. The ceremony will take place at Walk of Game, the destination honoring leaders of the video game industry, located inside San Francisco’s Metreon, a mecca for the gaming community.

Carmack and the other 2006 inductees will be honored at a reception at Metreon, where the stars will be unveiled. The 2005 inductee for Lifetime Achievement, Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari and creator of Pong), will headline the event. In addition to Carmack, Walk of Game will induct Sid Meier (creator of Civilization®) for Lifetime Achievement, and Lara Croft (Tomb Raider), StarCraft®, Final Fantasy and EverQuest® as favorite Games/Characters.

His star will be a black hole LOLZ

Lara Croft? Everquest? Oh boy, what an honor it is to have your name next to such greats.

Sid Meier (creator of Civilization®) for Lifetime Achievement

For creating like 2 s***ty iterative series? Where are the japanese developers?

In japan.

carmack for jesus

Where are the japanese developers?

Sniffing schoolgirls underwear.

Meier >>>> Carmack

Hashy, you seem to have a bitch and an opinion about every game mentioned here, tell us then what games you actually enjoy playing and don't have a problem with??

For creating like 2 s***ty iterative series? Where are the japanese developers?

One of these days, you're gonna say something positive about something, and I'm gonna fall off my chair.

Where are the japanese developers?

Off making final fantsasy xxiv

Mecca of the gaming community = lancafe?

Where are the japanese developers?

in japan making FF XXIV wearing schoolgirls' underwear on their face...

I don't know if any of you have played civilization. It's a pretty good series, don't get me wrong (I know I said s***ty, but it was kneejerk), but it's just a good concept and implementation that gets expanded upon little by little with each version. Apart from that, what has he made? Pirates is about the only other thing of note. The designers behind most popular games series have just as much under their belts as him.

Compared to greats like Yasumi Matsuno, Miyamoto & Hideo Kojima he isn't much.

Did those 3 guys create pokemon?

Civilisation was one of the games that made the PC a viable "games" machine all those years ago. Civ was the only thing people played. The level of detail at the time was unsurpassed. The latest Civ is possibly one of the best games ever made.

Of course, Doom and Wolfenstien probably helped a bit :) But Civ came before they did.

Sid Meier (creator of Civilization®) for Lifetime Achievement

For creating like 2 s***ty iterative series? Where are the japanese developers?

Civilzation is truly a grand game. It isnt a game just for gamers, people of many walks of life play it. It appleas to so many people for a variety of differnt reasons. He deserves a spot.

Did those 3 guys create pokemon?

Miyamoto alone created Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong.

I think I dispute that remark...

Zelda is boring.

what fpot said.

One of my favourite series would have to be Mechwarrior!

Civ might not be for you personally but its wide appeal and place in gaming history is hard to question. Civ IV is pretty much made completely out of awesome as far as I could tell.

It's a good time for a new mechwarrior game.... one where you can jump out of your mech, suit up in elemental armor/battle suits, run around in first person mode interacting with the battletech universe, etc. Mind you, even if they just made one with realistic damage, I'd be happy with it. They haven't made a mechwarrior game yet where a single rocket can eat through your viewplate and kill you, or a rocket from an infantry mounted inferno srm launcher can bake you and your mech alive, or even implemented landmines properly.

The technology is around, and so many games have rather good vehicle support nowadays... just need a kickass developer/publisher to pick up the license (like thats gonna happen though :()

A story driven RPG set in the battletech universe would pretty cool even.