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 →
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 →
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