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Report: The layoffs at Xbox's DOOM studio id Software are even worse than we thought — devs at Bethesda's Austin office have been hit, too

A new report reveals that Microsoft's Xbox layoffs have hit DOOM dev id Software even harder than we first thought, with 136 workers cut from the studio.

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Doom: The Dark Ages DLC lands to rave Steam reviews as id Software reportedly faces losing half its staff: "It may very well be the last piece of good Doom content that we ever get"

"It's like Dark Ages and Eternal had a child," one fan says

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Doom, Wolfenstein, and Quake will reportedly join Fallout and Elder Scrolls as Bethesda owner ZeniMax switches focus to its largest franchises amid Xbox restructure

Doom and Quake developer id Software is reportedly facing "significant" layoffs

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John Romero wishes Sandy Petersen well, says 20M Doom players weren’t pirates

John Romero and Notch push back on Sandy Petersen's piracy claims.

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Doom legend John Romero says the FPS game's 20 million shareware players "were not 'pirates' by default" and "history is messier than 'pirates killed the companies'"

John Romero's about to hope you're doing well

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“I played Doom before I was even into metal. A lot of my love of thrash comes from slaying beasts in Doom”: How Doom and its iconic soundtrack converted the next generation of metalheads

The 1993 shoot-’em-up was wildly violent and hugely successful. Thanks to Bobby Prince’s awesome soundtrack, it was also beloved by the metal crowd.

Metal Hammer

Doom co-designer still has the real chainsaw that inspired the OG FPS's iconic weapon, even though it leaks oil and "was kept in a bowl at the id offices"

"Tom Hall's Eager Beaver chainsaw" has a heck of a legacy

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Dwayne Johnson's Doom was so bad that one of his co-stars is surprised it didn't end their own career: "Probably one of the worst films ever made"

Rosamund Pike calls the 2005 video game adaptation "an absolute bomb"

Total Film

Get 7 incredible FPS games including Prey, Doom Eternal and Black Mesa for $20 in Humble's sci-fi shooter bundle

Space, the final gun tier.

PC Gamer

DOOM developer id Software has officially unionized under Microsoft — marking a major shift in the gaming industry’s labor landscape

id Software, the Texas-based developer behind DOOM and Quake, has unionized, with Microsoft voluntarily recognizing the union.

Windows Central

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.

Tom’s Hardware

'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.

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"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"

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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.

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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"

PC Gamer

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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

Windows Central

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!

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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.

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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.

Windows Central

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.

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