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Bethesda Is Taking Legal Action Against Doom-Themed Memecoin Promoted By Former Doom Designer

Hope he's doing well

By Rebekah Valentine Published September 21, 2026

Just About Everything Other Than The Music Sells Out In NIN’s 30th Anniversary Quake Collection

Commemorating three decades of the transformative 3D shooter, id Software releases a surprise new expansion and limited merch collection with composer Trent Reznor

By Zack Kotzer Published August 8, 2026

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Id Software Dev Says Xbox Doesn’t ‘Understand Art’ And That After Layoffs It Is ‘Impossible’ To Make Big Games Like Doom: The Dark Ages

id Software vet Chris Hays says entire departments have been 'gutted'

By Zack Zwiezen Published August 7, 2026

OpinionImpressions

Doom: The Dark Ages’ Big DLC Expansion Is A Fun But Flawed Finale For This Era Of The Series

What comes next is hard to say due to Xbox laying off many id employees

By Zack Zwiezen Published July 24, 2026

CultureNews

Mobile Doom Dev Alpha Dog Games Reemerges As An Independent Studio Two Years After Microsoft Closed It

Independently owned, again

By Rebekah Valentine Published July 20, 2026

Culture

YouTuber Shooter Historian Says Xbox Laid Off Those Responsible For The Decade’s Most Influential Game

The influential FPS critic lambasts Microsoft's treatment of id Software and the industry at large’s shortsightedness

By Zack Kotzer Published July 18, 2026

Doom guy wears a fur on a mound of dirt in front of Demons.

CultureNews

Doom Director Addresses id Software Bloodbath: ‘What Matters The Most Is That The Games Are Good’

id Software was hit hard in the latest round of Xbox mass layoffs

By Ethan Gach Published July 17, 2026

CultureNews

Doom Maker id Software Pushes Back Against Concerns About Its Future: ‘We Still Have The Crew We Need To Build The Games And Tech We’re Known For’

The studio just shipped an expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages

By Ethan Gach Published July 10, 2026

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Doom Designer John Romero Says He Hopes People Are Preserving id Software’s History Amid Reported Xbox Bloodbath

The veteran dev shared his condolences a year after his own studio reportedly faced cuts from Microsoft

By Ethan Gach Published July 7, 2026

The SNES cartridge for Doom appears in front of a yellow background.

CultureFeature

Meet The Guy Who’s Saving The Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of Doom

Turns out, it's the same guy who made it in the first place

Aidan Moher Published March 14, 2026

CultureMorning Checkpoint

Forza Horizon 6′s Tokyo Is So Big It Has Its Own Development Team

Also: Someone from the Doom movie reminds us it sucked, Crimson Desert has pre-launch issues, and a new roguelike shooter looks good

By Zack Zwiezen Published March 13, 2026

Doom Slayer appears a top a pile of capitalists bones.

CultureNews

Terminally Ill Fan Spending Final Days Playing Doom And The Devs Want Him To Know He’s Not Alone

'You are not alone in that hospital room' replied series co-creator John Romero to the dying fan on Reddit

By Zack Zwiezen Published February 4, 2026

ReviewsYear in Review

The Best Shooters Of 2025

This year was filled with big shooters, like Battlefield 6 and Borderlands 4 , and smaller indie titles, like Mohtra and Voidbreaker

By Zack Zwiezen Published December 16, 2025

CultureNews

The Studio Behind Doom Just Unionized

id Software is the latest Microsoft-acquired team to organize

By Ethan Gach Published December 12, 2025

CultureNews

Some Super Clever Folks Got Doom Running On A Goddamn Satellite

It’s so much cooler than the Voyager Golden Record

By Claire Jackson Published November 3, 2025

Monsters that look like funny tomatoes fly toward the player.

CultureNews

A Popular Doom Engine Now Has AI-Written Code In It Now And Everyone’s Mad

Some people just want to touch the stove even when they should know better

By Claire Jackson Published October 16, 2025

CultureNews

Two Doom-Powered Fantasy Shooters Just Got The Remasters Fans Have Been Waiting For

Heretic + Hexen is out now on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC and contains new content and a lot of quality-of-life updates

By Zack Zwiezen Published August 7, 2025