Co-founder of id Software John Carmack will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at next month's 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards, receiving the award from previous inductee Will Wright in a ceremony to be hosted by Warren Spector. Word from the announcement is: "The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of developers who have made an indelible impact on the craft of game development, as Carmack has done for his more than two decades of groundbreaking technical contributions, and his role establishing the first-person shooter genre with landmark titles like Doom and Quake."