I don’t remember the exact situation I was in when I first saw the face, but I was surprised. I was playing Doom on…
Doom and Zelda don’t have a lot in common beyond heroes killing a bunch of monsters. But one modder, Exkodius, has…
If you’ve ever wanted to get your Roomba to make you a Doom map, now’s your chance. This script by programmer Rich Whitehouse appears to be invented for Kirk Hamilton.
Digitally-upscaled remakes of classic pixel art games are usually a crime against eyeballs, but these incredible Doom…
The original Doom first came out 25 years ago, on December 10, 1993. To commemorate the cruel, unceasing passage of…
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Prodeus is a shooter that tries to replicate the look of FPSes of old, but with modern graphical techniques. I’m not sure how I feel about its purposefully pixelated aesthetic, but it’s certainly different. And by different, I mean “like somebody put Dooms 1-4 in a blender.” It’ll be out next year.
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This is a Doom II mod. Yes, it’s for that Doom II—the one that came out in 1994. Total Chaos is a survival horror “mod” that upgrades the game’s engine to the point that it’s basically unrecognizable. After nearly a decade of development, it’s finally been fully released.
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Jakub Cislo is a game developer who wears his influences on his sleeve. His just-released game, Project Warlock, is…
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There’s a new episode of Boundary Break, a YouTube series all about showing off the things in games we aren’t…
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This mini-doc about Doom’s cheat codes is fascinating. It’s the first episode of a new YouTube series called Codex, and it delves into how Doom’s particular cheat codes impacted everything from future cheat codes in other games to speedrunning and modding scenes.
Hi! I’m Nathan Fouts, designer at Mommy’s Best Games, and someone who knows how to make video game guns.
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Playing Rage 2 gave me flashbacks to playing Doom (2016). And that’s a very good thing.
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Players eager to rip and tear are in for a treat. Bethesda announced Doom Eternal during their E3 press conference…
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Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world. The iPhone has an install base of over 700 million…
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is coming to Switch on June 29. Publisher Bethesda released 2016's Doom on the handheld last fall where it ran pretty well and has only gotten better thanks to subsequent patches. A polished port of Wolfenstein II would be just as impressive.