Tag: DOOM

These Doom fans made a heart-throbbing Valentine’s Day mod

Fall in love with the classic first-person shooter all over again.

It’s Valentine’s Day again – a reminder to get your boo fancy chocolates, beautiful flowers, or extravagant mods for Doom. Yes, that last one is a viable option now.

On Tuesday, a group of modders that go by Pineapple Under the Sea Studios released PUSS XXIV: Lover’s Quarrel – a Doom 2 “megawad” mod themed entirely around Valentine’s Day (thanks, PC Gamer). There are a staggering 32 maps with custom texture work for single-player, deathmatch, and (of course) co-op play. 

Incredibly, there are also several covers of classic love songs like “My First, My Last, My Everything” by Barry White, which you can see in the gameplay trailer below.

Other scintillating tracks include “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meat Loaf, “The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis, and “What is Love” by Haddaway. Those old Doom-flavored sound effects dial up the romantic vibes to 11, right?

You can download PUSS XXIV: Lover’s Quarrel free from Moddb. However, you’ll need a copy of Doom 2 – which is available on pretty much every PC games storefront by now.

By most accounts, Doom is the granddaddy of all boomer shooters. Despite its age, loads of people still regularly create mods and map packs for it. 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Doom co-creator is leaving Meta

John Carmack is leaving the company’s VR division behind.

Games industry legend John Carmack announced Friday that he’s leaving Meta.

According to Business Insider, Carmack’s departure came via an internal memo at Meta, heavily criticizing the company’s virtual reality efforts – specifically, workplace efficiency.

“This is the end of my decade in VR. I have mixed feelings,” Carmack explains. “Some will ask why I care how the progress is happening, as long as it is happening. If I am trying to sway others, I would say that an org that has only known inefficiency is ill-prepared for the inevitable competition and/or belt-tightening, but really, it is the more personal pain of seeing a [5 percent] GPU utilization number in production. I am offended by it.”

Carmack later published the entire memo on Facebook, continuing to express dissatisfaction with his sway within Meta.

“It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough,” Carmack said. “A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it.”

Most people will recognize Carmack as one of id Software’s founders, where he was a programmer on classic games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and many others.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Doom is now playable on Notepad

You can play ID Software’s seminal first-person shooter in a text app.

Someone has made Doom, the classic first-person shooter, entirely playable in Notepad. Yes – as in the Windows text app!

On Sunday, Twitter user Samperson shared footage of Doom running in Windows Notepad. It’s not smoke and mirrors, either – the whole game displays in ASCII art-like characters. Every iconic sound effect can also be heard too, from the Imp’s grunts to shotgun booms.

There’s only video footage right now, but a publicly available build is in the works and might come out sometime this week.

“It’ll take some work to polish Notepad Doom into something releasable,” Samperson said on Twitter. “But it’ll almost certainly happen over the next couple [of] days.”

Check out a clip for yourself below. Naturally, the video is of Doom‘s legendary E1M1 level.

It’s a little hard on the eyes, especially that constant flickering, but ridiculously impressive nonetheless. That soundtrack never gets old, truly.

Fans have been adamant about getting Doom playable on virtually everything for years. Back in June, someone got the game running on LEGO bricks even.

Despite Doom‘s age, it’s still quite popular. The blooming boomer shooter genre is entirely made of new shooters that play just like ID Software classics like Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Doom co-creator John Romero is working on an all-new FPS

The project will involve a ‘major publisher’ with an original IP.

John Romero, ID Software co-founder and one of the brilliant minds behind Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake, is gearing up for another massive first-person shooter (FPS).

On Tuesday, Romero announced that his studio is hiring for a brand new FPS title. 

“It’s a new dawn for Romero Games. We are 100% focused on first-person shooters, the foundation that built our careers, our studio and a genre,” reads a statement on the Romero Games website. “Our current project is an all-new FPS with an original, new IP. Romero Games is working with a major publisher using state-of-the-art technology – Unreal Engine 5.”

Unfortunately, details beyond this are practically non-existent. The FAQ page simply reiterates that loose information, so there’s nothing else to go on. From the sound of things, this project is in the conceptual stages. So likely won’t see it for ages.

“It’s way too early to share any other information on it,” Brenda Romero, studio director, said via PC Gamer. “We are deliberately not boarding the hype train.”

It makes sense. This announcement is a hiring initiative, first and foremost. Fingers crossed that the game is an old-school boomer shooter, kind of like Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Doom is now playable on LEGO bricks

Another outlandish setup can run ID Software’s classic shooter.

The ever-growing list of devices you can play Doom on now includes a Lego brick. No joke, someone made a tiny little desktop and everything.

On Sunday, well-known tinkerer James Brown got the original 1993 version of Doom up and running on a makeshift Lego terminal (thanks, PC Gamer). The screen is only 0.42 inches, resulting in a resolution of 72×40. Far too tiny for us humans, but teeny Lego folks? It’s perfect. After all, Nobody is too small when it comes to blasting the demonic legions of hell. 

Best of all, Brown even included gameplay! Check out Doom running on Lego for yourself below.

It’s wild that there’s even audio. Brown went into considerable detail on how this setup works, and it’s worth taking a gander at since loads of effort went into this contraption. The screen isn’t all that legible, but hey, it’s just for fun!

There’s been a can-it-run-Doom meme within the games industry for several years, which practically begs people to get the game running on virtually any device. Some of the more outlandish setups include 100 pounds of potatoes, motherboard BIOS, home pregnancy tests, and rotary phones. Imagine hauling some ancient telephone onto the kitchen table to play Doom? Couldn’t be me.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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John Romero releases new Doom 2 level, proceeds go towards Ukraine relief

The co-creator of Doom releases new level in almost three decades.

For the first time in 28 years, id Software co-founder John Romero has released a new Doom 2 level with all funds going towards Ukraine.

On Wednesday, Romero announced the “One Humanity” level, which requires an original copy of Doom 2 and a modern source port to play.

“To support the people of Ukraine and the humanitarian efforts of the Red Cross and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund,” Romero said on Twitter. “I’m releasing a new [Doom 2] level for a donation of [$5.53]. ‘100 percent] of the proceeds go toward these agencies.”

One Humanity is available on Romero’s website here.

Doom 2 is seen as one of the greatest first-person shooters of all time, and Romero’s best work. One Humanity is the first level he’s designed for Doom 2 since it came out way back in 1994.

Romero is one of many people within the games industry trying to help the Ukrainian people following Russia’s invasion. On Thursday, The Pokémon Company donated $200,000 towards humanitarian efforts within the country. Meanwhile, CD Project Red announced the halting of all its games sales in Russia and Belarus.

Ukraine’s vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for the entire games industry to stop doing business with Russia and Belarus on Wednesday.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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