Konami has launched official website for the Powerful Pro Baseball series’ 30th anniversary and Professional Baseball Spirits series’ 20th anniversary.
11.12.2023 - 13:23 / techradar.com / John Romero / John Carmack
There have been tons of grand celebrations around Doom's 30th Birthday, but one fan has decided to scour the internet and find every single way you could play the classic first-person shooter.
One Twitter user has gone to great lengths to compile everything that can run Doom. There's anything from ultrasound scanners and thermostats to a McDonald's Tetris McNugget and the Resident Evil 4 chainsaw controller. While the chainsaw controller may not be the best way to experience Doom or any game for that matter, it is certainly better than some of the other, stranger options.
While it does rhyme, Doom on a broom isn't the best way to experience killing hordes of demons; there's also the option to play the FPS game on an Etch-A-Sketch and on a Sony Ericsson K800i.
Initially, fans were able to play Doom on the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS). However, while this old-fashioned way may not be accessible now, there is a way to best emulate the original Doom.
Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port that accurately reproduces the original experience of the FPS, the same way it was played in the 1990s. While this source port is historically accurate, adding mods to is also an option if you want to spice up the original experience to your own tastes.
The co-founders of id Software, the studio behind Doom, John Carmack, and John Romero, reunited in a Twitch stream to reminisce on the last 30 years. Romero explains how Doom represented a technical «sweet spot» before FPS games like Quake and full 3D acceleration complicated development and limited how many enemies could squeeze onto a screen. Carmack also remembered how he initially thought id Software could «just sell [Doom] in a brown paper bag» off its quality alone.
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Konami has launched official website for the Powerful Pro Baseball series’ 30th anniversary and Professional Baseball Spirits series’ 20th anniversary.
Apple suffered a major blow in its executive headcount, as the technology giant’s chief iPhone designer, Tang Tan, is reported to have joined Jony Ive’s LoveFrom and work with OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman to work on a brand new device focused on AI. Tan was also responsible for being one of the individuals responsible for designing the Apple Watch, and for the time being, no one has been named as his replacement at Apple.
Since 2019, the Sinden Light Gun has been the first and only contemporary light gun that will work on modern TVs and displays. Yet despite the technical achievements made, its creator, Andy Sinden, is aiming higher to make this a product not just an easy way to play your favorite light gun games on an high-definition TV, but to fully revive a niche and otherwise forgotten sub-genre of games.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director, Naoki Hamaguchi, has said that there's one scene in the game that's going to make players "lose their minds".
Mariya Takeuchi, the singer most famous worldwide for “Plastic Love”, has a new single out.
I am unreasonably excited for Streets of Rogue 2, the follow-up to 2019's best immersive sim in which you could play a vampire, hacker, gorilla or bartender, which means I've been eagerly devouring information about it ever since it was announced in October last year. Lucky for me, then, that developer Matt Dabrowski is kicking off a series of devlogs giving a look at the game's features, inspirations, and, naturally, development.
Festival season has long ended, but that didn't stop more than 800,000 from snagging passes to see The Weeknd headline yet another show. Except neither he nor his fans were physically together. The concert was held virtually, in Epic Games Inc.'s Fortnite, with the singer's avatar taking the stage, representing the latest in a growing list of virtual concerts.
Take the Fleischer-style cartoons behind Cuphead’s stunning visuals, slam them together with a classic first-person shooter in the vein of Doom and you’d likely end up with something that looks like Mouse, an upcoming FPS with a hell of a stylish look.
New Blood Interactive have released a free HD DLC remaster for their reputation-making retro FPS Dusk, almost five years to the day since the original shooter launched on Steam. Honestly, the idea of remastering an alt-history "199X"-style homage to Half-Life and Doom does a number on my sense of time - which multiversal branch are we in now? Still, those gibbable demon Klansters certainly look swish. Find a comparison trailer below:
On December 4, 2023, GungHo Online Entertainment revealed a collaboration with the renowned Japanese publisher, Dengeki Bunko. The partnership introduces beloved characters from iconic light novels to the popular mobile puzzle game Puzzle & Dragons, celebrating the publisher’s 30th Anniversary in a limited-time event. Fans have until December 18, to recruit protagonists such as Shana from Shakugan no Shana, Kamijo Toma from A Certain Magic Index, and Tatsuya Shiba from The Irregular at Magic High School.
Doom co-creator John Romero has marked the seminal FPS’ 30th anniversary by releasing his second unofficial campaign for the hell-shooter. Sigil 2 follows on from Romero’s previous expansion for the Doom engine - released in 2019 for its quarter-century celebrations - by adding nine new levels that you can go and grab for free right now.
Upon its release, Doom established itself as a blueprint for the then-new first-person shooter genre. Going on to become one of the most iconic PC games in all existence, id Software’s FPS retains its legacy as it turns 30 years old.