The Rage Interview on Shacknews chats with id Software's Tim Willits and Matt Hooper about various topics of interest, focusing on RAGE, id's upcoming game of on- and off-road rage. Specific topics include stealth, their "open but directed" world, an insinuation Tech5 development was slowed by John Carmack's fascination with the then newly-released iPhone, why they are holding off building the last level, the parts of the game that still need polish, other assorted gameplay stuff, a promise they are not holding back on anything for just to add it as future DLC, word a Fallout Pip-Boy might just be on a dashboard in the wasteland, and more. There is also a strong reassurance from Matt for those concerned that RAGE being designed for console controls means PC controls will suffer as a result:

And a lot of your readers play with mouse and keyboard, and I read a lot of comments about--it's funny, because they think we abandoned that. Tim and I have been making games for that for thirty-plus years combined. It's not like we forgot about that, we've got that covered. That's the easy part.

The reason we mentioned the controllers is because that's the thing that's a little new for id, making sure it's right on all the consoles. The game will play awesome on mouse and keyboard.