Wolfenstein

In Real Life

Wolfenstein Game Yanked From European Markets Over Swastikas

5:30PM August 25, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

The iOS version of id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D has been withdrawn from sale in two European countries over its use of the Nazi swastika.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

Mobile

Wolfenstein And Doom Games Get Big iPhone Price Drop

9:20AM August 5, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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

Retro

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

2:00PM July 1, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

Retro

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

4:00PM February 16, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

In Real Life

New Wolfenstein Bucks 3D Trend, Goes Completely 1D

11:20AM January 25, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

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”. More »

PC

Auschwitz Game Creator Yanks Wolfenstein Mod Under Pressure

11:30AM December 22, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

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. More »

News

The Concentration Camp Video Game

4:00AM December 10, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

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. More »

News

Captain America Meets Castle Wolfenstein In Super Soldier

6:20AM October 6, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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? More »

News

Hey Intel – Nice Glass

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2:00PM September 16, 2010 | Junglist

Intel’s graphics research group has recreated levels in the latest Wolfenstein with added elements such as chandeliers, for the purpose of accurately portraying light refraction using ray casting. TL;DR? It’s pretty damn impressive. More »

News

Google Yanks Android Ports Of Doom, Quake On ZeniMax Demand

10:00AM December 16, 2009 | Owen Good

A takedown notice sent by ZeniMax led to the Android Store’s removal of several ports of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein; one of the developers admits that, though the port used open-source Doom code, some of the game files were proprietary. More »