DoomRL, the demonic offspring of Doom, the first-person shooter and Rogue the, erm, roguelike, recently received an update. By far the most noticeable change is a shift from ASCII to 2D sprites. Did I say “most noticeable”? I meant “most incredibly awesome thing ever that vapourised my socks and detached my eyebrows from my face through its sheer hair-removing excitement powers”.
Yesterday, a grip of alleged Doom 4 screenshots surfaced on the internet, depicting earth being torn apart by the forces of hell.
This was once, in a former life, an entire army of Warhammer 40K miniatures. It is now one of the greatest tributes to id’s classic Doom I’ve ever seen.
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.
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.
