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Original 'Doom' Soundtrack Inducted Into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress

The original Doom soundtrack released in 1993 has been inducted into the 2026 National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

Player One · May 15

Everyone knows Wolfenstein 3D made the FPS a phenomenon. What this mod presupposes is… what if it didn't?

Isowulf does a remarkably faithful job transforming Wolfenstein 3D into an isometric shooter.

PC Gamer · May 11

It's time to set the record straight: Doomguy's armor does not have a tummy window, his shirt just got ripped

Thy Shirt Consumed.

PC Gamer · May 7

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Quake 2 dev felt "breathless" when he saw how Valve was using id Software's engine, and it led to one of my favorite games of the '00s: "26 years later and I can still say 'Wow'"

All roads lead to Alice

GamesRadar · Apr 23

Alice creator American McGee says he was inspired by a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2

McGee was fired from id Software in 1998, but it all worked out pretty well for him.

PC Gamer · Apr 22

An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'

The game just "stands the test of time."

PC Gamer · Apr 17

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Is there anything on earth that can't run Doom at this point?

PC Gamer · Mar 30

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Forgotten FPS sequel Heretic 2 gets a 'reverse-engineered sourceport' that fixes bugs, improves the framerate and adds 'lots of cosmetic improvements'

"The game plays as you remember it."

PC Gamer · Mar 28

Total Chaos is a relentlessly bleak and occasionally terrifying remake of one of Doom's greatest mods, though its brilliant legacy is also its biggest weakness

Trigger Happy Interactive's remake is a fun upgrade for fans of the original mod, but it doesn't quite live up to the standards of the survival horror greats.

PC Gamer · Mar 14

Sneaky trademark filing suggests id Software might be working on a long-awaited Quake sequel

Let's quake things up.

Destructoid · Mar 8

Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week

Haunted Lands is out March 10.

PC Gamer · Mar 8

Ambitious developer showcases slick triple-level Quake-like game stored in tiny 64KB executable — every game asset tucked inside what could be a ‘rounding error’ in modern app payload terms

Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB ‘boomer shooter’ with an uncanny resemblance to id Software’s seminal FPS title, Quake.

Tom’s Hardware · Feb 24

Nightdive Studios' Stephen Kick has 8,544 hours in Dota 2, and just clocked his 5,000th win: 'I think it's made me a better leader'

The CEO of the remaster specialists guides us through his gaming library.

PC Gamer · Feb 22

Doom co-creator John Romero adores Ghost Recon and has over 3,000 hours in World of Warcraft: 'God, I lived in that game every day for five years'

The co-founder of id Software and Romero Games takes us on a tour of his games library.

PC Gamer · Feb 15

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PC Gamer · Feb 6

Doom: The Dark Ages, the superior sequel in the rebooted FPS series (sorry, not sorry, Eternal), is now 67% off thanks to id Software's 35th anniversary celebration

TechRadar · Feb 5

Evercade's retro gaming consoles will officially pass the 'can it run Doom?' test — the landmark FPS franchise is coming sometime this year

Evercade's retro gaming consoles will finally be able to run Doom sometime this year — but which Doom games are coming to its bespoke cartridges?

GamesRadar · Feb 4

Doom devs including John Romero respond to terminally ill fan spending his final days playing Doom: The Dark Ages: "You are not alone in that hospital room"

"You are the reason Doom exists"

GamesRadar · Feb 2

id Software's 2D platformers were making "10 times" more money than its early FPS games, and Doom might never have happened if the studio followed the easy cash

Adrian Carmack getting a fright playing Catacomb 3-D is to thank for Doom existing

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PC Gamer · Feb 2

id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'

Happy 35th birthday, id Software.

The Guardian - UK · Jan 22

‘It’s the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design’: welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam

Quake Brutalist Jam began as a celebration of old-fashioned shooter level design, but its latest version is one step away from being a game in its own right

PC Gamer · Dec 22, 2025

Over 30 years since release, this classic PC platformer built with the tech that led to Doom just got a remaster

Play Bio Menace like it's 1993. Or at least, how your time-ravaged brain remembers it.

Tom’s Hardware · Dec 14, 2025

id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs

35 years ago today, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons - Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was released by a dev team including John Carmack and John Romero.

Windows Central · Dec 14, 2025

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.

PC Gamer · Dec 13, 2025

I'm never getting any work done ever again, thanks to this website that lets me play thousands of user-made Doom levels in my browser

RIP (and tear) my productivity.

PC Gamer · Nov 22, 2025

Doom: The Dark Ages' latest update overhauls its customisable arena mode, and id Software wants to add the best player-made slaughter-fests as selectable presets

Rip and share.

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