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