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FPS legend John Romero says Doom is "one of the great privileges" of his life on the game's 32nd birthday: "It amazes me how far this rebellion of a game has travelled"

"We wanted to build the the greatest game we could imagine playing, and generations of players have kept it alive"

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DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on modern systems

KiDOOM is a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application.

Tom’s Hardware

DOOM left running on ASUS MyPal PDA for 2.5 years finally crashes — bug that crashes the game when gametic value hits 2,147,483,647 ticks likely to blame

Gamers have put millions of hours into DOOM in the 32 years since its launch, but it's unlikely that many of them have left the game running for upwards of two years straight. At least one person did, though, and the result is... that it crashed.

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'This works better than expected': Doom on a charging station looks surprisingly playable but may have the most awkward controls ever

Next, we have to play Doom inside of Doom, inside of the charging station.

PC Gamer

"So much of DOOM’s soul is down to heavy metal": FPS legend John Romero says "without Ozzy and Black Sabbath, I am not sure it would have been the same"

"Metal gave a voice to a whole generation of kids that didn’t fit in for one reason or another"

GamesRadar

RIP, Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76

The heavy metal singer had an extraordinary influence on music and popular culture, and appeared in 2009 Double Fine game Brütal Legend.

PC Gamer

The games industry is so broken even FPS legend John Romero and his studio are struggling with funding, and now-former staff say it's Microsoft's fault: "Our whole studio is being let go because of the layoffs"

John Romero announced a new FPS game back in 2022, and said the devs were teaming up with "a major publisher"

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This MMO can run Doom: EVE Frontier is so moddable, players are building entire games within its space survival sandbox, and the devs say it's just the beginning

Another player developed a simple 4X game, while others have built NPC questgivers and PvP modes.

PC Gamer

Xbox Game Pass just had its strongest content quarter ever, but can we expect this level of quality forever?

Xbox Game Pass just wrapped up its strongest quarter ever, delivering standout releases like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince, and DOOM: The Dark Ages. Can it maintain momentum?

Windows Central

id Software is updating DOOM: The Dark Ages' difficulty because you said itwastooeasy

id Software has implemented balance changes to DOOM: The Dark Ages, giving enemies more attack power and other advantages in order to make the game more challenging.

Windows Central

There are only 666 of this ROG Astral RTX 5080 Doom Edition being made and I'd go to Hell and back to get one if it wasn't $2,000

I'm about to rip & tear something over these darn high prices.

PC Gamer

Are you playing DOOM: The Dark Ages when it launches? — Weekend discussion 💬

DOOM: The Dark Ages is launching soon, so are you hopping in at launch? We want to hear from you!

Windows Central

DOOM: The Dark Ages review and Metacritic score roundup — Does Xbox have its GOTY contender with this long-awaited shooter?

At long last, DOOM: The Dark Ages is finally here — but is the highly anticipated prequel the Xbox Game of the Year contender everyone's hoping it is? Here's what the reviews are saying, and how it's scoring on Metacritic.

Windows Central

I love DOOM: The Dark Ages' brutal dark fantasy so much that I'm awarding it a perfect score — eager for more

DOOM: The Dark Ages shakes up the established formula, inventing awesome new ways to rip and tear in a dark fantasy setting. Here's my review.

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Xbox has become a Game Pass machine and nothing more — Is it enough to justify Microsoft's console over a costly gaming PC?

I can't think of many reasons to buy an Xbox over competing platforms when Microsoft has dwindled its appeal to one place: Game Pass.

Windows Central

We're getting a DOOM Xbox Elite Controller and Xbox Series X console wrap to celebrate 'The Dark Ages' (Confirmed!)

Ready to go medieval? Celebrate DOOM: The Dark Ages with the controller that may have debuted on Xbox lead Phil Spencer's sneaky shelf.

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"You are incorrect": John Romero has been correcting Doom history for the past 4 years, and he's not about to stop now

"Hi Sandy, hope you’re doing well"

Tom’s Hardware

Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines, 90GB of RAM and a full year of work

Developer Dmitri Mitropoulos has managed to get Doom running inside of Typescript Types, after a year-long effort, resulting in three and a half trillion lines of types.

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“There were death threats flying around. They were burning my effigy at punk bonfires”: The tumultuous story of Peaceville Records, the underground label that helped shape extreme metal

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Doom: The Dark Ages "isn't designed to be the end" of the iconic shooter series, with director Hugo Martin saying he "wouldn't have a problem doing this for a long time"

The new game isn't "a period on the end of a sentence"

Windows Central

DOOM: The Dark Ages PC requirements and specs — Can your computer run id Software's latest shooter?

Here's the Windows PC requirements for DOOM: The Dark Ages, including details on what you'll need to run id Software's demon-slaying first-person shooter.

PC Gamer

Total Chaos, the full-fat remake of one of Doom's best mods, is a getting a demo 'very shortly'

The FPS overhaul will introduce "completely new" areas.

Laptop

4 new games optimized for RTX-50 series gaming laptops — I am dying to see The Witcher IV in action

There are only four upcoming games listed on Nvidia’s website, including The Witcher IV, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, and Black State. This is what RTX 50-series gaming laptops offer them.

Windows Central

DOOM asks, "Are you human?" after years of us asking "Will it play DOOM?"

A new CAPTCHA has you play a short game of DOOM rather than click images or identify squiggly letters.

PC Gamer

After 17 years, 'the most mysterious song on the internet', used in esoteric and rad Doom mod MyHouse.wad, has been found

Check it in, check it out, but the sun will never shine.

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