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DOOM On Vectrex Brings An Eerie Vector Beauty To The Legendary DOS Shooter
Grab your plastic overlays. Milton Bradley's tabletop all-in-one console, Vectrex, can now be inked in as another platform that can "run" seminal 1993 release DOOM. New footage surfaced yesterday that showed the granddaddy of the shooter genre "running" on the long-obsolete vector-based system. Even given the Vectrex display's rudimentary visuals, id Software's legendary FPS title is instantly recognisable, with its sci-fi futurist depiction of Hell on Earth beautifully transformed into smooth v
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
Evercade announces Doom Collection, containing new gameplay modifiers
The collection includes eight campaigns and new Evercade-exclusive game modifiers
Doom creator id Software used Taiwanese pirates to help distribute the game, John Romero reveals
John Romero, the legendarily long-haired co-founder of id Software and father of game series Quake and Doom, has recounted a tale about when id Software worked with Taiwanese pirates to spread Doom.
Evercade DOOM Collection Leaks Ahead Of Full Announcement
Update: Includes the first two games. Evercade maker Blaze has announced it will bring the DOOM series to the platform this year. The teaser shown below doesn't give much away, but it would be reasonable to expect a DOOM collection showcasing at least the first two titles, which were originally released on PC and console back in the 1990s. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Early '90s animation tools were so primitive that Doom's lead artist says he pretty much did the whole thing with 'the undo key'
The UnDoom key, if you will.
DOOM Has Been Recognised As One Of "The Most Influential Works" Of American Culture
Alongside 'The Star-Spangled Banner', 'Moby Dick', and 'Levi's Jeans'. The Washington Post has published a list of the 25 most influential works of American culture, featuring DOOM as its selection for the period of 1986-1995 (h/t: PC Gamer). Sitting alongside such influential entries as The Star-Spangled Banner, Moby-Dick, and Levi's Jeans, DOOM beat out The Simpsons, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, and even Seinfeld for its place on the list, ultimately being selected for its "foundational" ro
The Washington Post selects Doom as one of the 25 'most influential works of American culture'
id Software's seminal 1993 shooter takes its place alongside The Federalist Papers, Moby Dick, Robert Johnson's deal with the devil, and Lemonade.
"I Was Wrong" - It Looks Like DOOM "Impossible" Neo Geo Port Could Be Possible, After All
Just don't expect it to happen "anytime soon". The retro YouTuber/game developer Modern Vintage Gamer has put out a new video about his challenge to the homebrew community to get DOOM running on the Neo Geo. And it seems he's now ready to admit defeat, admitting, "I was wrong," and that he now believes that a DOOM port may be possible on the platform after all. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.
DOOM PS5 DLC Quietly Becomes One of 2026's Best-Rated Releases
Revelations gets a 90 on Opencritic. You might not have noticed, but a new piece of PS5 content currently rated higher than Resident Evil Requiem launched last week: the new DOOM expansion Revelations. The piece of DLC currently commands an Opencritic rating of 90, making it the sixth highest-rated title of 2026 so far on the site's Hall of Fame list. Here's how the overall top 10 from Opencritic looks as of 13th July 2026: Read the full article on pushsquare.com
One Of The World's Most Obscure Consoles Just Got Its Own Version Of DOOM
"An obscure Japanese game console made for little girls finally gets DOOM!". Since its original release on PC back in 1993, homebrew developers have been trying to get DOOM to run on everything, from smart fridges to tractors. This resulted in many unofficial ports of the game to platforms that never originally had DOOM, with Damien having previously covered the ongoing efforts by members of the homebrew community to make a so-called "impossible" port of the game for the Neo Geo, inspired by a s
Id Software co-founder John Carmack "can’t muster anger or outrage" over Xbox gutting the Doom studio, but does say it'll "dampen the mood of the founder reunion"
Aw shucks. That's a bummer. I'm not angry about it, though. Surely this had to happen, just like the execs said it did. I'm paraphrasing quite facetiously, but that is the basic gist of id Software co-founder John Carmack's reaction to the studio cutting 136 workers as part of Microsoft's mass layoffs earlier this week, a devastating blow that leaves the Doom developers facing an uncertain future.
Doom co-creator John Romero weighs in on Xbox's cuts to id Software, underlines the importance of digital preservation and the studio's history
Xbox's recently announced, division-wide layoffs are a disaster, and Doom studio id Software has been hit particularly hard right as it's launching The Dark Ages' expansion-sized DLC. Now, Doom co-creator and id Software co-founder John Romero has weighed in.
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SuperStation One's $20 Memory Card Goes on Sale Today, and Yes, It Plays DOOM
Runs on PS1 and PS2, as well. Taki Udon has released a memory card to complement his SuperStation One MiSTer FPGA system – and it also works on original PS1 and PS2 consoles. The SuperStation Memory Card (or SSMC to its friends) has a built-in display for Game ID support and works with FreePSXBoot, FCMB, OPL MMCE and more. You can also use it to load ISOs from a MicroSD card in the same way the 8BitMods MemCard Pro 2 does. Read the full article on timeextension.com
"The more aroused the fly is the harder it tries to shoot" - Google's fully mapped fly brain is now playing Doom, Beat Saber, and more
It's science-fiction Friday as Google's fully mapped fly brain, which was revealed last week, has been engineered to play Doom and rhythm-action game Beat Saber.