The DOOM classic Unity port has been made available this week on GOG, following previous release on Steam, Sony PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Xbox One, iOS, and Android since its announcement in 2019. (It’s basically the original game ported to Unity, making porting to modern systems simpler.) With itsRead More →
We’ve seen them all: DOOM on a microwave, a fridge, an ATM, a digital ad hoarding, even a Raspberry Pi. But did you image DOOM could run on a tractor? Wired reports that white-hat hacker “Sick Codes” has presented a new jailbreak for John Deere tractors at last week’s DefconRead More →
Back in 2005, a full 12 years after the game was initially released, a version of DOOM was ported to old style mobiles with T9 keyboards. Impossible, you say? Ah, but this port was a DOOM RPG, and thanks to the efforts of some GitHub devs, the game is nowRead More →
You just can’t keep DOOM down. It will, it seems, port to almost anything. The latest platform? A Sega Naomi arcade machine. So, DOOM is alongside some great games. Having said that, if I’d walked into an arcade 20-odd years ago and stumbled across a DOOM cabinet, you’d have hadRead More →
If you ever wanted to play Doom and Half-Life 2 at the same time (we know, you only just realised how amazing that would be) a new in-development mod will almost make that happen. Developed by Penggrin and set to be hosted on ModDB, the “main goal is to recreatRead More →
John Romero, co-founder of the legendary video game studio id Software, announced his upcoming biography to launch in 2023. If you’ve ever heard the name “Doomguy,” you probably already know who John Romero is. For the others, John Romero is known for developing some of the most iconic games fromRead More →
Been looking for a way to run Workbench on your A500 Mini? While there are several methods of doing this, the simplest is to use the AMiNIMiga package, which includes not just the Amiga’s own GUI, but a bunch of old software that you can run legally. Available to downloadRead More →
When you get a new device like the Raspberry Pi Pico, the first thing you should do is install Linux. The second thing is to install Doom. That’s exactly what veteran developer Graham Sanderson did. Aiming to match the experience of the original game, limited to 2Mb of data, andRead More →
Forget emulation and virtualization. If you’re a hardcore MS-DOS or Windows 9x gamer, you want a genuine x86 system. Forget wheezing old IBM compatibles, Time machines, Compaqs, and Gateway systems. There is an alternative: the weeCee. Essentially a single-board computer (SBC) with an SD card slot, PS/2 mouse and keyboardRead More →
In a shock move, Bethesda has announced a new add-on for DOOM and DOOM II! Developed by modder James Paddock using Ultimate Doom Builder and SLADE, the new maps are based on modding work he did in his own time in the early 2000s. https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1418255983944552452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1418255983944552452%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcomicbook.com%2Fgaming%2Fnews%2Fbethesda-new-free-content-doom-doom-2%2F Chatting to the Bethesda Slayer’sRead More →
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