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Doom The Dark Ages quickly became one of the most played entries in franchise history, as gamers were intrigued by several of the changes and enhancements the new sequel brings to the Doom formula. Now, a little over two weeks after its initial release, Bethesda is pushing out the game’s first big update. Players can...
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Spring as sprung and you know what that means, right? It's riding season, so do us bikers a solid and watch out for motorcyclists while puttering about the roadways. One that you're not likely to miss, should you encounter it during your travels, is a Doom: The Dark Ages-themed Harley-Davidson as part of a...
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If the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 is too light for your senses, there's a new game coming that hearkens back to a time of doom and gloom. This gory gaming title is Doom: The Dark Ages, slated for release on May 15th with early access opening on May 13th. NVIDIA is pushing this game as its main bundled item for new...
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In just under a month from now, Bethesda will release Doom: The Dark Ages, which is a prequel to Doom reboot that launched in 2016. To celebrate the highly-anticipated release to the popular game franchise, Microsoft has announced a pair of themed Xbox controllers as well as a devilishly delightful wrap for your Xbox...
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DOOM never dies, and neither does its modding scene. The official KEX-powered port of DOOM + DOOM II on every major platform just got a huge upgrade: support for mods in multiplayer. Now you and your friends can rip and tear through demons and custom WADs together without being shackled to the base game's maps and...
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Xbox Developer_Direct is back for a third year to give gamers a closer look at some of the games coming to the platform in 2025, including behind the scene interviews with the developers making the magic happen. This year has a solid roundup of games, with a heavy hitter alongside some brand new entries. There’s even...
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There are all kinds of CAPTCHAs out there: unscramble the characters, identify the object, count the cats, classify items, move the slider, and so on. Many of them are rather transparently crowdsourced AI training data. That's not the case with the latest CAPTCHA, though, which challenges users to kill three enemies...
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Nintendo surprised just about everyone with its announcement of the Alarmo, especially with gamers waiting on the eventual arrival of the not-so-secret Nintendo Switch 2. Alarmo is a proprietary device with limited out of the box functionality, and so in time-honored tradition, someone figured out how to run Doom on...
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You know, 3D printed houses are cool and all, but a do-it-yourself (DIY) "designer and maker of things" and "3D printing tinkerer" has concocted a delightfully nostalgic project that will appeal to anyone with fond memories of playing with PCs back in the 1990s. His name is Salim Benbouziyane, and to oversimplify his...
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This weekend, thousands of FPS fans, boomer shooter devotees, and many literal boomers have descended on Dallas, Texas suburb Grapevine for the yearly Quakecon event. Id Software and its parent company Bethesda like to use the event to disseminate news about their products (like last year's surprise Quake II remaster...
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When DOOM came out in 1993, Id Software had all kinds of companies coming around asking to license the engine to use it in various types of software for which it was completely unsuited. John Carmack said that vendors of CAD programs and home designers wanted to make use of his amazingly-performant 3D engine, but...
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If you ever wake up one day finding yourself wanting to play OG Doom on an 18x32 pixel display made of E. Coli bacteria with FPS as slow as molasses, then you ought to give MIT researcher Lauren Ramlan a call. We have a gut feeling that you'll have the time of your life, as long as you have 600 years to spare.
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The original Doom and Doom II games have a rich and thriving mod community that continues to this day. The title just celebrated its 30th anniversary yesterday, and to commemorate the occasion, one of the very best "megawads" of all time—that's community parlance for a level set with a full game's worth of maps—has...
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Seminal first-person shooter Doom has been ported to an ungodly number of platforms and devices over the years, some of which have been highly unusual. Today we noticed another amazing feat of Doom-ifying an unsuspecting device, with a YouTuber demonstrating a fully playable game of Doom running on a keyboard keycap...
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It is extremely rare for children to receive adulterated candy on Halloween, but it has happened a couple of times. For that reason, and because people are crazier than ever in 2022, it's a reasonable idea to go over your kids' haul before they dig in on Halloween night, just as this new cute PSA from DIY electronics...
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Many people dream of meeting their heroes. It seems like tech YouTuber Samperson got that opportunity in a round-about way recently, when legendary PC game designer John Romero reacted to a Twitter post showing how a fan got the 1993 classic first-person shooter DOOM running in Notepad.
Almost as popular as the...
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It seems like every day there's a new thing that people are getting to run Doom. It's such a lightweight game, but still fun to play, and it's easy to get running in many things, even a scientific calculator. Additionally it's old enough that there are exploits in it that make it easy for lots of custom and arbitrary...
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In gaming, people are in either one of two camps. In 2007 one camp was "Will it run Crysis?," which is still a meme to this day. The other camp is, "Can I put Doom on it?" The answer to the latter is almost always "Yes" these days.
Almost like the improv training that many actors go through, quite often the answer...
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These days, video game audio is so complex that it's actually simple. Computer processors and audio hardware are advanced to the point that everything can simply be multi-channel digital audio. Game sound effects and music tracks are just digital samples; digitized recordings of real-world sounds. Digitized audio has...
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It's the end of an era, though not very long one. The Bethesda Launcher is shutting down. But what about all of those games you purchased exclusively through the Bethesda launcher? Worry not, because you can transfer them to Steam through a relatively straightforward proess.
In February Bethesda announced the...
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The computing and gaming industries have had their fair share of tropes over the years. Such as in the late 2000's when "Will it run crysis?" was asked of any computing device put on the market upon the release of a hardware-punishing title. But few games tropes are as prolific as "Can you put Doom on it?"
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Shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, Elon Musk activated Starlink's Internet service in the country, in response to the Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister’s plea for assistance. Two days later, Musk also supplied Ukraine with a shipment of Starlink terminals, earning the Vice Prime Minister’s personal...
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