Kicking off Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs started his keynote address by giving an award to Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, as a thank you gift for his extraordinary work in helping Apple transition to Intel processors in the past year.

Next, Bing Gordon, founder and chief creative officer for Electronic Arts, announced four new games to be available in July for OS X. The games are Command & Conquer III, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Gordon showed a demo of the Harry Potter game.

Later this year, EA will ship Madden NFL 08 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for the Mac at the same time the game releases for other platforms.

The biggest teaser came from iD Software (Doom and Quake) when they showcased their secret project which would be made available on the Mac. id Software CEO and co-founder John Carmack was there to announce the introduction of a brand new game engine that they have been working on for next-gen systems. Carmack demonstrated the new engine with a racing demo. And from his description of the mechanics and detail, it sounds like it could be groundbreaking:

“So the last couple of years at id we’ve been working in secrecy on next-gen tech and a game for it … this is the first time we’re showing anything we’ve done on it publicly. What we’ve got here is the entire world with unique textures, 20GB of textures covering this track. They can go in and look at the world and, say, change the color of the mountaintop, or carve their name into the rock. They can change as much as they want on surfaces with no impact on the game.”

Aside from the demo, Carmack was pretty mum about the details, stating that:

“We’re going to be showing on a Mac, PC, PS3, and Xbox [360] at E3. We’ll have another Mac announcement at E3.”

Jobs went on to discuss Leopard, Apple’s next generation OS X. He then showed off the new features of Leopard. All developers in attendance got a copy of Leopard, while the official release is set for October with a price tag of $129.

Jobs then discussed the Safari browser by announcing a new version of Safari to run on Windows.  The Windows beta is available today at apple.com/safari.

The keynote was then closed by an announcement about the iPhone. Jobs touted the full version of Safari available on the iPhone and welcomed developers to use the Safari API to write apps for the iPhone.

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