QuakeCon sale gives you up to 85% off these essential FPS gamesAug 2, 2023 - PCGamesNA QuakeCon sale gives you huge discounts on many top series from the legendary studios behind some of the best FPS games. Along with Doom and Quake creator id Software, Bethesda (now a part of Microsoft) also comprises Wolfenstein developers Machine Games, Dishonored and Deathloop maker Arkane Studios, and Tango Gameworks, the studio behind The Evil Within and Hi-Fi Rush. Now, that huge catalogue gets some equally massive discounts to celebrate the upcoming QuakeCon. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get Bethesda's best games for dirt cheap ahead of StarfieldDishonored meets Jurassic Park in this steampunk RPGAwesome Games Done Quick's complete January 2018 schedule has been releasedGet Bethesda's best games for dirt cheap ahead of StarfieldJun 16, 2023 - PCGamesNThe Elder Scrolls, Doom, Fallout, Dishonored, Wolfenstein, Quake, The Evil Within - you name it, Bethesda has some of the best PC games in its catalog, and you can get most of them for next to nothing right now thanks to a sale with up to 85% off the likes of Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout New Vegas, Wolfenstein 2, and Prey. With the Starfield release date swooping over the horizon, what better time than now to enjoy Bethesda's best? Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dishonored meets Jurassic Park in this steampunk RPGAwesome Games Done Quick's complete January 2018 schedule has been releasedDishonored co-creative director "hopeful" for future of complex, PC-like multiplatform gamesSteam's top modern FPS games are up to 90% off, but not for longMay 28, 2023 - PCGamesNSeveral of the biggest modern FPS games on Steam are currently on sale with discounts up to 90% off, but you'll need to move fast to grab them. Love a good shooter? So do we here at PCGamesN, and some of the best FPS games from recent years are part of an ongoing Steam sale, but you'll have to act quickly if you want to grab the bargains. Whatever your flavor of FPS, you'll likely find something of note among these Steam bangers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: EA says even more FPS studios are facing "increased harassment"Battlefield 2042 season 4 release date trailer is close-quarters chaosBattlefield 2042 update 3.2.1 patch notes nerf dart guns hardDoom 3 remade as a fast-paced boomer shooterMay 24, 2023 - PCGamesNI've thought before about a possible Doom 3 remake. The environments look good, there are some terrific enemy designs - especially the big zombies - and that P90-style sub-machine gun is great fun, too. But among the pantheon of FPS games, which naturally includes the original Doom, Doom 3 struggles to justify itself. It's a bit slow, a bit sober, and it's absent that kind of gliding-while-gunning sensation that makes the id Software series such chaotic fun. But now that's all changed. Thanks to a huge new mod, Doom 3 has been remade as an ultra-quick run-and-gun boomer shooter, closer to both Doom 2016, and the 1993 original. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Steam's top modern FPS games are up to 90% off, but not for longBethesda sale slashes Skyrim and Fallout, and restores original Doom 3Doom mod remakes Doom 3 with stunning HD texture packBethesda sale slashes Skyrim and Fallout, and restores original Doom 3Feb 27, 2023 - PCGamesNA huge Bethesda sale is underway, with Fallout New Vegas, The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein The New Colossus, Dishonored, and the Elder Scrolls games Oblivion and Skyrim all available at a discount, as GOG drops prices as part of a dedicated developer event. More intriguing however, the original, 2004 version of Doom 3 has been released as part of the BFG Edition, with the classic FPS game and its multiplayer also available as part of the sale. If you want to play the id Software shooter as was originally intended, now's your chance. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Doom mod remakes Doom 3 with stunning HD texture packDoom 3 is now playable on Oculus Quest thanks to this fan portSomeone is bringing Doom 3 to VR with an upcoming modYou can now pick up the five-game Doom Slayers Collection on SwitchAug 19, 2021 - EurogamerSwitch-owning fans of demon murder (who somehow still haven't played id Software's legendary Doom saga) are in luck; as part of this year's QuakeCon, id has announced a five-game Doom Slayers Collection for Nintendo's console, which is available to purchase now. The reveal isn't too much of a surprise - US retailer Best Buy successfully managed to leak the Doom Slayers Collection for Switch earlier today ahead of its official reveal - but the game's immediate post-announcement launch most certainly was, and Switch players can now enjoy some demon-hued FPS japes all in one bundle, featuring seminal 1993 original Doom, Doom 2, Doom 64, Doom 3, and 2016's sort-of-rebooted Doom. Notably, that's one more game than was featured in the Doom Slayers Collection for Xbox and PlayStation, which released toward the end of last year minus Doom 64 - a pleasant treat for Switch owners, based on Digital Foundry's previous enthusiasm for the port. Read moreDoom 3 is now playable on Oculus Quest thanks to this fan portJan 12, 2021 - PCGamesNYou can now rip and tear your way through Doom 3 in VR if you fancy it. The old PC game has been rejigged for the wireless VR headset Oculus Quest 1 and 2 by prolific modder DrBeef. Doom has always excelled in demon-busting combat, but the added prospect of VR makes the experience feel all the eerier. I, a coward, do not like the idea of taking on a spider with an upside-down head in VR, but you might be braver than I. The fan-made port is called Doom3Quest, and comes with more than 12 hours of campaign content alongside updated graphics. You can also expect fully tracked VR weapons and VR UI touchscreen interaction, among other things, to make the experience worthwhile on your Oculus Quest. You can only play the single-player right now, but the team behind the port is open to the possibility of looking into multiplayer at a later date. If you fancy giving Doom3Quest a go yourself, you'll need a copy of the original game and a third-party app called SideQuest. The desktop app is designed to simplify sideloading apps and games on Oculus Quest and Quest 2, so it's recommended you go with that. You can find more information on how to install the port over on the Doom3Quest website. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Someone is bringing Doom 3 to VR with an upcoming modPhobos, a Doom 3 mod influenced by Half-Life, releases its first episode after 14 yearsRoom-scale VR version of Doom 3 now available, is terrifyingSomeone is bringing Doom 3 to VR with an upcoming modSep 15, 2020 - PCGamesNNot content with letting players dive face first into the worlds of Half-Life and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, prolific modder DrBeef now has their sights set on porting Doom 3 over to wireless VR headset Oculus Quest. Ever wondered what's nestling behind a cacodemon's tonsils? Of course you have. We all have. Much like the modder's previous ports, Doom 3 will require the user to own a copy of the original game, alongside third party app SideQuest. This is a sideloading app for Oculus Quest that lets you do all sorts of neat stuff. Simon Brown, aka DrBeef, recently told UploadVR that running Doom 3 on the Quest requires "some concessions", but the game "runs surprisingly well without having to axe too much in terms of effects". As UploadVR points out, Oculus and Doom 3 have a bit of history. The original Oculus Kickstarter campaign promised a "copy of DOOM 3 BFG Edition, the first Oculus-ready game, with every Rift dev kit", way back in the halcyon, carefree days of 2012. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Phobos, a Doom 3 mod influenced by Half-Life, releases its first episode after 14 yearsRoom-scale VR version of Doom 3 now available, is terrifyingWhat is a game? Is Proteus a game? Are you a game? And why?Doom 64 pops up in an age-rating listing for PC and PS4Jul 27, 2019 - EurogamerAh, Doom 64. In the absence of a PC, my console-fuelled video game childhood was left with Doom 64. But, improbably, Doom 64 was great. This 1997 Nintendo 64-exclusive Doom game was not a port of the original Doom, or any of the other Doom games. Nor was it meant to be the 64th Doom game (although by this point will it be?). Rather, it was a sequel developed by Midway that took place after Doom 2. I remember Doom 64 looking fantastic to my teenage eyes, and the music was properly atmospheric. You spent a lot of time shooting demons, of course, but there was a real horror feel to the game. It felt like Doom 64 was as good as Doom could get on Nintendo's console and, as someone who hadn't played Doom before, it also felt fresh. Read moreDaily Deal - Doom 3: BFG Edition, 75% OffMay 10, 2014 - Product ReleaseToday's Deal: Save 75% on Doom 3: BFG Edition, DOOM 3, Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II and Final DOOM !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3's Source CodeJan 14, 2013 - KotakuThis is a story about Doom 3's source code and how beautiful it is. Yes, beautiful. Allow me to explain. After releasing my video game Dyad I took a little break. I read some books and watched some movies I'd put off for too long. I was working on the European version of Dyad, but that time was mostly waiting for feedback from Sony quality assurance, so I had a lot of free time. After loafing around for a month or so I started to seriously consider what I was going to do next. I wanted to extract the reusable/engine-y parts of Dyad for a new project. When I originally started working on Dyad there was a very clean, pretty functional game engine I created from an accumulation of years of working on other projects. By the end of Dyad I had a hideous mess. In the final six weeks of Dyad development I added over 13k lines of code. MainMenu.cc ballooned to 24,501 lines. The once-beautiful source code was a mess riddled with #ifdefs, gratuitous function pointers, ugly inline SIMD and asm code—I learned a new term: "code entropy." I searched the internet for other projects that I could use to learn how to organize hundreds of thousands of lines of code. After looking through several large game engines I was pretty discouraged; the Dyad source code wasn't actually that bad compared to everything else out there! Unsatisfied, I continued looking, and found a very nice analysis of id Software's Doom 3 source code by the computer expert Fabien Sanglard. I spent a few days going through the Doom 3 source code and reading Fabien's excellent article when I tweeted: I spent a bit of time going through the Doom3 source code.It's probably the cleanest and nicest looking code I've ever seen. — DYAD (@DyadGame) September 20, 2012 It was the truth. I've never really cared about source code before. I don't really consider myself a "programmer." I'm good at it, but for me it's just a means to an end. Going through the Doom 3 source code made me really appreciate good programmers. *** To put things into perspective: Dyad has 193k lines of code, all C++. Doom 3 has 601k, Quake III has 229k and Quake II has 136k. That puts Dyad somewhere in between Quake II and Quake III. These are large projects. When I was asked to write this article, I used it as an excuse to read more source code from other games, and to read about programming standards. After days of research I was confused by my own tweet that started this whole thing: what would "nice looking"—or "beautiful", for that matter—actually mean when referring to source code? I asked some programmer friends what they thought that meant. Their answers were obvious, but still worth stating: * Code should be locally coherent and single-functioned: One function should do exactly one thing. It should be clear about what it's doing. * Local code should explain, or at least hint at the overall system design. * Code should be self-documenting. Comments should be avoided whenever possible. Comments duplica...Doom 3: BFG Edition source code releasedNov 27, 2012 - ShacknewsAs it does so very kindly like to do, id Software has released another dollop of engine source code. This latest is somewhat less exciting than many, simply offering the updated Doom 3 source from the BFG Edition but hey, now the folks at home can make the best and shiniest Doom 3 games yet. As with id's other recent source releases, it's up on GitHub for your coding conveniences. Or you can download the full pack from Shacknews. Of course, just because the engine source has been released, it doesn't mean BFG Edition is free--all the game data and assets are still protected.
Id has also dropped a new patch for the BFG Edition on PC, bringing fixes and a whole heap of new menu options to play with.
The Original Doom 3 is Back on SteamNov 11, 2012 - KotakuThe release of Doom 3: BFG saw the disappearance of the original Doom 3 from Steam, notable for two reasons: 1) the game was rather cheap and 2) there were a bunch of mods for it. People were rightly pissed, Bethesda Softworks offered a hurried non-answer, and the whole thing looked like a cynical sales-protection strategy. Well, OK, fine, you win. Doom 3, the original, is back on Steam. For $10. Specifically, here's the pricing: • Doom 3 Pack: Discounted at $12.99 • Doom 3: Discounted at $9.99 • Resurrection of Evil: Discounted at $4.99 Further, Bethesda says Doom 3: BFG Edition's GPL source will be released "in the near future." Original DOOM 3 back on SteamDo Doom 3’s Graphics Hold Up?Oct 18, 2012 - KotakuI've always felt strangely about Doom 3. On the one hand, it was a fairly revolutionary game, graphically. The lighting was striking. On the other hand, it looked kind of gross: humans in the game were starkly lit with strange, bump-mapped faces and odd, robotic movements. But is that a bad thing or does it add to the ambiance? Does the game's look stand the test of time, or is it a strange artifact from a simpler time? Here are some animated GIFs from the recently-released Doom 3 BFG Edition running on an Xbox 360. We'll let you, the Kotaku readers, decide. Now Available - Doom 3: BFG EditionOct 16, 2012 - Product ReleaseDoom 3: BFG Edition is now available on Steam in North, Central, and South America with more territories opening later this week. DOOM 3 BFG Edition is the ultimate collection of games that defined the first person shooter including DOOM, DOOM II, DOOM 3, and DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil, and The Lost Mission. Additionally, all owners of the original Doom 3 on Steam will receive a discount when they upgrade to the BFG Edition right now! It Looks Like Doom 3, But BetterAug 6, 2012 - Kotaku Here are some fresh QuakeCon screenshots from Doom 3 BFG Edition, a remastered version of Doom 3 that will be out in October for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Although developer Id has promised that they're all working full-force on Doom 4, we might not see much of that for a while. So at least we'll get a little bit of Doom this year. A little bit of pretty-looking Doom. Quakecon Weekend - Final Day!Aug 5, 2012 - AnnouncementIn celebration of the mega gaming event QUAKECON, save big on different games from id Software and Bethesda each day, now through August 6th at 10am Pacific Time. Today only, save 75% on all *id Software titles! *Rage not included Or, pick up the massive QUAKECON Bundle, a collection of all released id and Bethesda titles for one low price! See the New Levels id Is Adding To Doom 3Aug 2, 2012 - KotakuWe've got ourselves a new trailer for October's Doom 3: BFG Edition. This one highlights the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game's new eight-level "Lost Mission." But what about Doom 4? Id is still working on it—they even moved their mobile designers onto the project, begging off any more mobile gaming for the time being—but that's about all we know. Given that today is the kickoff for id's annual Quakecon event and that's all they're saying, that's pretty much all we're going to be told, officially, for quite some time. Doom 3 BFG Edition Blasts Out of the Darkness in OctoberJun 19, 2012 - KotakuThe remastered edition of Doom 3announced a few weeks ago will hit PCs, PS3s and Xbox 360s this October. The BFG edition of the classic first-person-shooter will also include full versions of Doom 1 and Doom 2, along with seven new Doom 3 levels and the Resurrection of Evil add-on. The whole shebang will cost $29.99 for PCs and $39.99 for consoles. Doom 3's Graphically Enhanced Monsters Are Pretty Damn UglyJun 5, 2012 - KotakuHere's your first look at some of the hideous monsters in the upcoming Doom 3 BFG Edition, a rerelease of Id's first-person shooter that will be out this fall for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Sadly, no head-mounted displays or armor-mounted flashlights here. Just ugly monsters. Ugly, ugly monsters.
Id has also dropped a new patch for the BFG Edition on PC, bringing fixes and a whole heap of new menu options to play with.
The Original Doom 3 is Back on SteamNov 11, 2012 - Kotaku The release of Doom 3: BFG saw the disappearance of the original Doom 3 from Steam, notable for two reasons: 1) the game was rather cheap and 2) there were a bunch of mods for it. People were rightly pissed, Bethesda Softworks offered a hurried non-answer, and the whole thing looked like a cynical sales-protection strategy. Well, OK, fine, you win. Doom 3, the original, is back on Steam. For $10. Specifically, here's the pricing: • Doom 3 Pack: Discounted at $12.99 • Doom 3: Discounted at $9.99 • Resurrection of Evil: Discounted at $4.99 Further, Bethesda says Doom 3: BFG Edition's GPL source will be released "in the near future." Original DOOM 3 back on Steam Do Doom 3’s Graphics Hold Up?Oct 18, 2012 - KotakuI've always felt strangely about Doom 3. On the one hand, it was a fairly revolutionary game, graphically. The lighting was striking. On the other hand, it looked kind of gross: humans in the game were starkly lit with strange, bump-mapped faces and odd, robotic movements. But is that a bad thing or does it add to the ambiance? Does the game's look stand the test of time, or is it a strange artifact from a simpler time? Here are some animated GIFs from the recently-released Doom 3 BFG Edition running on an Xbox 360. We'll let you, the Kotaku readers, decide. Now Available - Doom 3: BFG EditionOct 16, 2012 - Product ReleaseDoom 3: BFG Edition is now available on Steam in North, Central, and South America with more territories opening later this week. DOOM 3 BFG Edition is the ultimate collection of games that defined the first person shooter including DOOM, DOOM II, DOOM 3, and DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil, and The Lost Mission. Additionally, all owners of the original Doom 3 on Steam will receive a discount when they upgrade to the BFG Edition right now! It Looks Like Doom 3, But BetterAug 6, 2012 - Kotaku Here are some fresh QuakeCon screenshots from Doom 3 BFG Edition, a remastered version of Doom 3 that will be out in October for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Although developer Id has promised that they're all working full-force on Doom 4, we might not see much of that for a while. So at least we'll get a little bit of Doom this year. A little bit of pretty-looking Doom. Quakecon Weekend - Final Day!Aug 5, 2012 - AnnouncementIn celebration of the mega gaming event QUAKECON, save big on different games from id Software and Bethesda each day, now through August 6th at 10am Pacific Time. Today only, save 75% on all *id Software titles! *Rage not included Or, pick up the massive QUAKECON Bundle, a collection of all released id and Bethesda titles for one low price! See the New Levels id Is Adding To Doom 3Aug 2, 2012 - KotakuWe've got ourselves a new trailer for October's Doom 3: BFG Edition. This one highlights the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game's new eight-level "Lost Mission." But what about Doom 4? Id is still working on it—they even moved their mobile designers onto the project, begging off any more mobile gaming for the time being—but that's about all we know. Given that today is the kickoff for id's annual Quakecon event and that's all they're saying, that's pretty much all we're going to be told, officially, for quite some time. Doom 3 BFG Edition Blasts Out of the Darkness in OctoberJun 19, 2012 - KotakuThe remastered edition of Doom 3 announced a few weeks ago will hit PCs, PS3s and Xbox 360s this October. The BFG edition of the classic first-person-shooter will also include full versions of Doom 1 and Doom 2, along with seven new Doom 3 levels and the Resurrection of Evil add-on. The whole shebang will cost $29.99 for PCs and $39.99 for consoles. Doom 3's Graphically Enhanced Monsters Are Pretty Damn UglyJun 5, 2012 - Kotaku Here's your first look at some of the hideous monsters in the upcoming Doom 3 BFG Edition, a rerelease of Id's first-person shooter that will be out this fall for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Sadly, no head-mounted displays or armor-mounted flashlights here. Just ugly monsters. Ugly, ugly monsters.