Retro

Listen To John Carmack’s Commentary Track For Wolfenstein 3D

To celebrate Wolfenstein 3D‘s 20th anniversary, here’s a video of programmer John Carmack playing and talking his way through the 1992 first-person shooter.


May 9, 2012
PC

Classic FPS Wolfenstein 3D Now Available In Your Browser

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of classic first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D, Bethesda has released a free browser-based version of the full game. If you’ve been dying to shoot Nazis 1992-style, now’s your chance!


August 25, 2011
In Real Life

Wolfenstein Game Yanked From European Markets Over Swastikas

The iOS version of id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D has been withdrawn from sale in two European countries over its use of the Nazi swastika.


August 5, 2011
Mobile

Wolfenstein And Doom Games Get Big iPhone Price Drop

To celebrate today’s Quakecon kick-off, a slew of id Software games are on deep discount over on iTunes.


July 1, 2011
Retro

In Memory Of The Original Castle Wolfenstein (the One That Wasn’t In 3D)

It’s a slightly sad quirk of video game history that id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D is lauded as a masterpiece of gaming while the title it was heavily inspired by – name and all – is afforded no such honour.


February 16, 2011
Retro

Nintendo’s War On Blood, Nazis, Religion And Puppy Dogs

While these days it’s not that hard finding violent, mature titles on Nintendo consoles, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that wasn’t the case. And when you did find them, well, some “changes” had been made.


January 25, 2011
In Real Life

New Wolfenstein Bucks 3D Trend, Goes Completely 1D

id Software’s groundbreaking first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D has been stripped to its core, shedding two dimensions to become playable on a “single, dazzling one-pixel line”.


December 22, 2010
PC

Auschwitz Game Creator Yanks Wolfenstein Mod Under Pressure

Sonderkommando Revolt, the video game mod that reimagines an Auschwitz uprising as a bloody, pixelated shooter, may never see release, according to the project’s lead creator. He blames the “emotional trauma” of media attention for its demise.


December 10, 2010
News

The Concentration Camp Video Game

An Israeli modder has turned a 1992 first-person shooter into a bloody tale of revenge in a Nazi concentration camp with Sonderkommando Revolt, which puts players in the role of an Auschwitz death camp prisoner on a killing rampage.


October 6, 2010
News

Captain America Meets Castle Wolfenstein In Super Soldier

Sega’s video game tie-in for the Captain America movie features the star-spangled avenger infiltrating Hydra’s mysterious castle during the darkest days of World War II. Sounds like a What If Captain America Infiltrated Castle Wolfenstein, doesn’t it?