
Doom is a cultural cornerstone, where every new piece of tech (gaming or otherwise) and every game is forced to somehow—no matter how impossible—run Doom. It's a test, and we've seen the 1993 classic on everything from a motherboard's BIOS, old potatoes, a Lego brick, to a home pregnancy test, and even Doom running inside Doom. Honestly, I thought we'd hit the end of the runway. And then Cortical Labs, a tech startup which once grew living brain cells on a microchip to play Pong, returned to train these neurons to play Doom. In retrospect, after they played Pong, it was the only logical next step, wasn't it?