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Google Yanks Android Ports of Doom, Quake on ZeniMax Demand
A takedown notice sent by ZeniMax led to the Android Store's removal of several ports of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein; one of the developers admits that, though the port used open-source Doom code, some of the game files were proprietary. More »German Artists Send Billboards To Their Doom!
A Tribute to id Software's Doom, as seen on Flickr via Nerdcore. Thanks, teknohed!Mega Man Done Deathmatch Style
A modder has put "Doom and Mega Man into a blender" to "spew out a fun new way to blast your buddies online." Mega Man: 8-Bit Deathmatch seeks to recreate the original game's levels and weapons in a 3D environment. More »Head In The Clouds: Flying In Video Games
There's something fantastical about flying in a video game. We can easily run, jump and swim in real life. Flight is more exotic. But we do fantasize about it. Where do you think the term "flights of fancy" comes from? More »Don Ivan Punchatz, Doom Box Artist, Dies at 73
The artist Don Ivan Punchatz, whose artwork on id Software's Doom helped establish the game's hardcore reputation and appeal, has died of a heart attack. He was 73. More »Sid Meier Bringing Civilization To Facebook
Sid Meier is taking two of the most addictive games ever created - Civilization and Facebook - and melding them into one. Today he announced Civilization Network, coming to Facebook in 2010. More »Doom Creator On Whether New PlayStation Or Xbox Will Be First
You know John Carmack. He's the programming wizard responsible for games like Doom. You know what John Carmack thinks? More »Doom Resurrection Micro-Review: What In The Sam Hell
id Software and Escalation Studios have compacted the essence of Doom 3 into an iPhone app with Doom Resurrection, an on-rails first-person shooter that teleports the player from Mars to Hell and back. More »What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Most of my weekend will be spent playing a little real-life Tetris, as I attempt to find open slots for all the boxes, furniture and knickknacks still in boxes from the Kotaku Towers West relocation endeavor. More »QuakeCon 2009 Is Going To The Gaylord
id Software's annual gathering of Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein fans will happen August 13th to August 16th. And it will happen at a new location, the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. More »Doom Resurrection: The iPhone Game That Nearly Wasn't
With the rail-shooter Doom Resurrection for the iPhone hitting the App Store at any moment, Kotaku spoke to John Carmack about design decisions, multiplayer, and why the game was nearly canceled months into development. More »id Software Bought By Bethesda Parent Company, ZeniMax
Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard... all in one company. More »id Resurrects "Next-Gen" Doom On iPhone Next Week
Quake developers id Software are very fond of Apple's iPhone as a gaming platform. The first-person shooter focused id has already released Wolfenstein 3D Classic and is planning double the Doom, including a scaled down semi-remake of Doom III. More »Doom Is Coming For The iPhone
Having first teased the game a few months ago, id's John Carmack has provided a slew of details on the company's upcoming iPhone port of their classic PC shooter Doom. More »Doom 4 Is So Not A Sequel
Doom 4 comes after Doom 3. But is Doom 4 a sequel to Doom 3? According to id's Todd Hollenshead, no, it is not a sequel to Doom 3. More »A Visit To id Software Circa 1993
John Romero takes us back to the early formative days of id Software, way back to November 1993, about a month before the release of the original Doom. More »The Rock Deems Doom Movie A Failure
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, like everyone else, says that the 2005 Doom movie adaptation was an example of "trying and failing" at making the jump from video game to movie. Yes, he went there! More »Fifteen Years Of Doom
On December 10th 1993, id Software introduced a title that would change the face of gaming as we knew it. Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the revolutionary FPS, Doom. More »Doom Finally Ported To Flash
What hasn't Doom been ported to at this point? You can't answer "Flash 10!" anymore, as an enterprising Newgrounds contributor has gone to the effort to port the id Software classic to Adobe's platform, making the first-person shooter playable in the web browser of your choice. It's a tidy little port, if a bit slow on my 2 year old MacBook Pro. More »Hey Microsoft, Bulgaria Is Not Germany, Japan or Korea!!
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