John Romero’s long-awaited autobiography is now available to buy, but what might you learn from reading about the “Doom Guy?” If nineties gaming has a rock star, John Romero is it. You can now read about the man, his life and his accomplishments in his recently published autobiography Doom Guy:Read More →
Half-Life 3 will probably never appear, but what if the G-Man granted your wish for a Half-Life 2 prequel? A bunch of Half-Life news has appeared over the past few weeks, which is worth highlighting for fans of the popular FPS series. Even though I’ve been back in the UKRead More →
It’s been in development for some years, but the FPS documentary is almost ready for release. On July 6th, 2023, the final sale for inclusion in the film will be opened, enabling you to get your name included in the credit list. CreatorVC studios has not revealed the final releaseRead More →
It turns out this VIC-20 computer port of DOOM has been around a few years, but even so: wow! Essentially a cut-down port of DOOM, it features various enemy types, weapons, exploding barrels and even – as you can hear in the video – conversions of the original DOOM MIDIRead More →
As we approach Halloween 2022, the biggest DOOM news out there is that the Adafruit team has turned a Milky Way chocolate bar into a receptacle for DOOM. The accompanying video demonstrates how good this looks, but at the time of writing there doesn’t appear to be any guide orRead More →
I can’t be alone in thinking that Freescape was the extent of the ZX Spectrum’s capabilities. But in its 40th anniversary year, two developers have relesed what can only be described as a Quake-style game engine for Sir Clive Sinclair’s amazing little computer. From the minds and fingers of AloneRead More →
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 →
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