Doom

In Real Life

Doom, Lemmings And Super Mario, Together For The First Time

5:30AM February 2, 2012 | Pierre Bienaimé

Check out this student-made Flash advertisement for… an iPod skin? We’ll take it! Mario and Luigi cope with an invasion straight out of Lemmings and Space Invaders before reinforcements from everyone’s favourite Mars-bound marine. Things get 3D, and decidedly less innocent. More »


PC

Angry Birds Launches Valentine’s Day Assault On Facebook

7:30AM January 31, 2012 | Mike Fahey

Filed under news I was too busy playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 to notice last week, Rovio’s pig-popping physics-powered sensation Angry Birds makes its Facebook debut on February 14, just in time to give the loveless something to do on Valentine’s Day evening. More »


PC

Doom Is Back Up On Xbox Live

1:30PM January 19, 2012 | Owen Good

Doom, one of the progenitors of the first-person shooter genre, has returned to the Xbox Live Marketplace after a mysterious three-month hiatus. The classic PC title is available for 400 Microsoft Points ($5). More »


News

Doom Developers Hit With Layoffs

2:39PM January 11, 2012 | Luke Plunkett

An “undisclosed number” of staff at Doom and RAGE developers id Software have been let go. [Gamasutra]


In Real Life

John Carmack Is Down On 720p, Wants 1080p For Next-Gen Consoles

9:00AM December 22, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Today’s high-end gaming consoles can play games in 1080p resolution, but many Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games still run at 720p or less. The average person may not see a difference, but the graphics-minded co-creator of Doom does. More »


In Real Life

Pepper Spray Cop Could Have Been On The Cover Of DOOM

4:40AM November 24, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

In the latest mash-up of the Pepper Spray Cop image that came out of the Ocupy UC Davis protests, Lt John Pike finds himself on Mars on the cover of id Software’s classic first-person shooter DOOM. More »


News

Now You Can Shoot Doom Demons … With Your Mind

6:40AM October 21, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

First wireless controls, then motion controls, then motion-tracking like the Xbox Kinect… sooner or later, someone’s going to come up with a computer (and therefore a video game) that can be controlled entirely with our minds. More »


In Real Life

Watch A Man Shoot A Home-Made Rocket Called Quake All The Way Into Space

6:30PM October 10, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Among amateur rocket-launching circles, there’s a bounty called “The Carmack Prize“. It’s named for id boss, Doom co-creator and budding rocket scientist John Carmack, and will reward anyone who can get a home-made rocket 100,000 feet into space and capture some GPS data from it. More »


PC

Finding A Little Doom In Your Rage

5:20AM October 6, 2011 | Brian Crecente

There are plenty of Doom coffee mugs laying around in the world of Rage. But that’s not the little bit of Doom I’m talking about, I’m talking about some retro gameplay. More »


News

RAGE Has Been A Long, Long Time Coming

7:30PM October 4, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

It’s not every day you get to play a new id game. If you’re not counting iPhone games (and we’re not counting iPhone games) or re-releases, the last new title the studio released was Doom 3. And that was in 2004. More »