One of Electronic Arts' biggest third party publishing deals is now no more. ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks and the owner of id Software, has just announced that they will take over as the publisher of id's next game, the first person shooter Rage.

Rage was first announced in 2007 during QuakeCon and at E3 in 2008 Electronic Arts announced it would handle the publishing duties for the game. However ZeniMax went ahead and bought id Software in June of 2009. At the time both ZeniMax and EA stated that the publishing deal for Rage would go unchanged. Neither EA nor ZeniMax has announced the financial specifics of this new publishing transfer, with ZeniMax saying only that, "The ongoing development of Rage is unaffected by this development."

[Via email press release]