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Doom co-creator finally plays the best boomer shooter: "son, you did a good job"May 23, 2025 - PCGamesNIf we were to put it to a democratic vote, the people would undoubtedly elect Doom as their boomer shooter president. But is it the best? Many would argue that title belongs to Dusk, the 2018, retro-style FPS that feels like a throw back to the golden age of Doom. Built primarily by just one man, it's one of the best-reviewed boomer shooters ever, and one of the highest-rated by Steam users. Now though, it's received the ultimate praise. John Romero, the co-founder of id Software and designer of the first Doom game, has finally got around to playing it - and he loves it. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Why Doom is one of the most important PC games of all time This Doom PC controller is stunning, but only 1,000 are being made Oblivion remade as a slick and brutal Doom style boomer shooter Why Doom is one of the most important PC games of all timeMay 13, 2025 - PCGamesNMay 13, 2025: This piece was originally published August 18, 2016 as part of our 'most important PC games' series. We've republished it for Doom: The Dark Ages' launch. "The Citizen Kane of videogames" gets thrown around a lot in the modern 'games as art' discussion. And it's a term that can mean different things, depending on the commentator. Alex Steacy and Cameron Lauder put forward Half-Life as the Citizen Kane of videogames in their Twitch show, Talking Simulator, on the grounds that it had legitimized the medium, just as Citizen Kane had for film. Matt Kamen wrote for Empire that PS4 exclusive The Last of Us "may also prove to be gaming's Citizen Kane moment - a masterpiece that will be looked back upon favorably for decades." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This Doom PC controller is stunning, but only 1,000 are being made Oblivion remade as a slick and brutal Doom style boomer shooter Surprise Doom update adds brutally hard campaign built by John Romero himself DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Launch Trailer May 9, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsEnjoy the Official Launch Trailer for DOOM: The Dark Ages Stand And Fight as the super weapon of gods and kings, shred enemies with devastating favorites like the Super Shotgun while also wielding a variety of new bone-chewing weapons, including the versatile Shield Saw. Players will stand and fight on the demon-infested battlefields in the vicious, grounded combat the original DOOM is famous for. Take flight atop the new fierce Mecha Dragon, stand tall in a massive Atlan mech, and beat demons to a pulp with the newly enhanced glory kill system. Only the Slayer has the power to wield these devastating tools of mayhem. Coming May 15, 2025. Pre-order on Xbox Series X|S, PC or PlayStation 5. https://t.co/DCP5jMAfk4 For more information on all things DOOM: The Dark Ages and id Software, follow these channels and join the Slayers Club. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/doom.com Twitter: https://x.com/DOOM/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/doom/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@doom Facebook: https://facebook.com/DOOM Website: https://doom.bethesda.net/ Slayers Club: https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/ ESRB RATING: Mature for Blood and Gore and Intense ViolenceDoom mod Blitz: Race Against Time only gives you half a minute per map, so it's a good thing Doomguy runs at 50 mphMay 4, 2025 - PC GamerNot everyone has years, weeks or even hours to commit to demon slaughter. Not all of us can be Coincident, fighting through the armies of hell for six hours solid. Sometimes you've not even got a minute to spare, and if that's the case, I recommend seeking better work-life balance. Also to check out madcap Doom mod Blitz: Race Against Time, a collection of 32 maps, each with a 30 second timer. Ready, set, kill!.. Read more.Humble's latest bundle gets you every Doom game, a discount on Doom: The Dark Ages and some Wolfenstein as a treat for less than $30Apr 27, 2025 - PC GamerDoom: The Dark Ages is so close you can taste the iron in the air. Id's green and mean killing machine will get medieval in just a couple of weeks, so now's the time to start stretching those demon slaying muscles. If you've somehow managed to miss id Software's totemic FPS series over the past 32 years, Humble Bundle's got you covered, offering every Doom game plus a few extras for less than $30... Read more.This Doom PC controller is stunning, but only 1,000 are being madeApr 23, 2025 - PCGamesNCKRD is teaming up with Limited Run Games to release an eye-catching red key card Doom controller, but only 1,000 are being made, so if you want one, you'll need to act fast. If you're looking forward to the Doom The Dark Ages release date, this controller might tighten the hype, although it won't actually be shipped until October 2025. Nevertheless, this is set to be one of the best PC controllers to play Doom with, thanks to its Hall Effect thumbsticks, adjustable trigger sensitivity, and iconic red key card design. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Oblivion remade as a slick and brutal Doom style boomer shooter Surprise Doom update adds brutally hard campaign built by John Romero himself You can now play Doom on the Google search bar One of classic Doom's most brutal challenge runs is finally conquered after 13 years of mega-scale demon slaughterApr 21, 2025 - PC GamerFew names can terrify classic Doom fans more than Okuplok, an obscure mapper who's only surfaced a few times on the Doomworld forums, usually to release something painful before slinking off into the shadows. They're best known for unleashing one of the most nightmarish levels in the history of Doom upon the world: The humble-sounding 'untitled2', better known to the community as the 'Okuplok Slaughter Map', is one of the most gruelling combat challenges in Doom history—a colossal series of arena battles against an ungodly 23,211 demons where even the tiniest mistake spells instant death... Read more.DOOM (2016) gets a surprise release on GOG with a big discountApr 18, 2025 - GamingOnLinuxDRM freedom from hell. DOOM (2016) has just released on GOG and there's a nice big discount to go along with the release. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/doom-2016-gets-a-surprise-release-on-gog-with-a-big-discount/ Oblivion remade as a slick and brutal Doom style boomer shooterApr 23, 2025 - PCGamesNBetween The Elder Scrolls 6 and the long-rumored Oblivion remake, the future of Bethesda's fantasy RPG series can't come soon enough. While we wait, though, there are plenty of ways to stay busy. Whether it's the incredibly ambitious year that Elder Scrolls Online is about to have, or the myriad Skyrim mods that keep reinventing the land of the Nords, there's always something happening in Tamriel. Bet you never thought you'd see Oblivion implanted into Doom though, right? Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This Doom PC controller is stunning, but only 1,000 are being made Surprise Doom update adds brutally hard campaign built by John Romero himself You can now play Doom on the Google search bar John Romero's brutal megawad Sigil 2 has formally chainsawed its way into Bethesda's Doom + Doom 2 remasterApr 13, 2025 - PC GamerBethesda and Nightdive Studios' remaster of Doom + Doom 2 was not just an excellent overhaul of the legendary FPS and its sequel, it brought together all of vanilla Doom's additional adventures under one cracked, pentagram-scrawled roof. Alongside the two base games, it included the master levels for Doom II, the two halves of Final Doom, and a new official campaign developed by MachineGames, the furiously challenging Legacy of Rust... Read more.A new limited edition of Doom comes in a box that runs DoomApr 12, 2025 - PC GamerIt is a tradition well-regarded that PC gaming's long-standing FPS Doom be ported to every new piece of hardware that could, even vaguely conceivably, run it... Read more.Surprise Doom update adds brutally hard campaign built by John Romero himselfApr 11, 2025 - PCGamesNAfter 32 years, you might think that Doom, the greatest FPS game in history (fact), could no longer present a challenge. One of the most comprehensively excavated PC games of all time, we know how the enemies work, the damage values of all the weapons, even where the linedef triggers are placed on every level - both Doom and Doom 2 have been picked clean. And yet, the fires of Hell rage on. Sigil 2, created by John Romero himself, is one of the most punishing Doom map packs ever built. If you're a veteran of the Phobos base, a champion of the Icon of Sin, and are eagerly awaiting Doom The Dark Ages, thanks to a surprise update from Bethesda, you can try to tackle Sigil 2 right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You can now play Doom on the Google search bar The classic Doom games get a surprising update from Bethesda We almost had a Doom and Halo crossover, but Xbox apparently said "nah" Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price everMar 15, 2025 - PC GamerDoom 2016 is less than two dollars. Id's superb reboot of its own 1993 FPS is currently available at a 90% discount thanks to Steam's spring sale. With a current RRP of £15.99/$19.99 that discount brings the price down to £1.59 in the UK, or as I have already stated numerous times, less than two dollars in the US... Read more.Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at firstMar 9, 2025 - PC GamerThe fertile world of Doom WADs never ceases to amaze me, and Vault 666 is a recent release that really tickled my fancy. Modder Carl Asami's Vault 666 is a send-up of both Doom and Fallout that asks: What if the Doom Guy had to save the wasteland?.. Read more."It's like a classic piece of art" Doom: The Dark Ages' director on revisiting the original boomer shooter for inspirationFeb 22, 2025 - VG247The team behind Doom: The Dark Ages went all the way back to the original game to find inspiration for the latest entry in the series. Read more You can now play Doom on the Google search barFeb 3, 2025 - PCGamesNEven the Doomslayer might need to look something up from time to time. Ammo, weapons, new abominations to kill in glorious fashion, there's a lot to keep track of if you're taking on the armies of hell. Now, when he does, he can keep up on his demon slaying, because Doom has been ported right into the Google search bar. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The classic Doom games get a surprising update from Bethesda We almost had a Doom and Halo crossover, but Xbox apparently said "nah" This official Doom themed Starfield mod lets you play a hellish new quest You can now play Doom on the Google search barFeb 3, 2025 - PCGamesNEven the Doomslayer might need to look something up from time to time. Ammo, weapons, new abominations to kill in glorious fashion, there's a lot to keep track of if you're taking on the armies of hell. Now, when he does, he can keep up on his demon slaying, because Doom has been ported right into the Google search bar. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The classic Doom games get a surprising update from Bethesda We almost had a Doom and Halo crossover, but Xbox apparently said "nah" This official Doom themed Starfield mod lets you play a hellish new quest Nightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 gets multiplayer mod support, spectator mode for co-op play, and stops you from losing your mind searching for red doorsFeb 1, 2025 - PC GamerNightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 has given me hours of sweet demon-blasting joy since it launched in the middle of last year. I dropped in only yesterday to clarify a hazy memory of a particular level, and lost a good forty minutes to disemboweling imps with a shotgun in glorious 4K, Andrew Hushult's thunderous riff on the E1M1 theme thrashing in my ears. Never mind the days I spent last year picking through John Romero's episodes Sigil and Sigil 2, or the ferociously difficult new campaign by MachineGames, Legacy of Rust... Read more.The classic Doom games get a surprising update from BethesdaJan 29, 2025 - PCGamesNFriday December 10, 1993: that's the day the FPS genre changed forever as Doom came barreling onto our PCs. The weapon feedback, blood-pumping soundtrack, and unashamed over-the-top violence might seem quaint today, but that's only because the entire videogame industry learned from the lessons id Software was teaching. That was over 30 years ago, though, and since then every other shooter to grace our screens owes the Doomguy an unpayable debt. This is why the recent Doom re-releases from Bethesda are so important, because not only do they make these classics easier to play than ever, but they're spruced up for the modern age. There was one thing missing at launch, however, and Bethesda has finally added it to the games. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: You can now play Doom on the Google search bar We almost had a Doom and Halo crossover, but Xbox apparently said "nah" This official Doom themed Starfield mod lets you play a hellish new quest DOOM: The Dark Ages - Gameplay Deep DiveJan 24, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsJoin Marty, Hugo and the team at id Software as we journey into our first gameplay deep dive for DOOM: The Dark Ages! Coming May 15, 2025. Pre-order now for up to 2-days Early Access! For a full transcript of the above video, click here. Check out this article for PC Minimum Specs. For those looking to preorder the physical Collector's Bundle, click here for the North America Gear Store and here for the International Gear Store. For a summary of everything discussed in this gameplay deep dive, click here.
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