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Image from a ray tracing version of Quake showing the Chthon boss rising out of lava.
Half-Life Ray Tracing Mod Delayed, But Quake Ray Tracing Is Now Available

A modder has been working on a now-delayed ray tracing mod for the original Half-Life, but the same person does release a similar add-on for Quake.

Title screen for a Doom 2 mod called Thatcher's Techbase, showing Doom Guy shooting at a demonic Margaret Thatcher.
UK Politician Seen Playing Margaret Thatcher-Themed Doom 2

Doom and Doom 2 are notorious for being heavily modded by the community, and a Margaret Thatcher mod gets favored by a well-known UK politician.

Image from Minecraft showing the original Doom playing on a screen.
Minecraft Player Creates a Way to Play Doom Without Mods

Using just the vanilla version of the title, a Minecraft player finds a way to get Doom to run on a huge screen within the game.

Image from Goat Simulator 3 showing three goats with Wolfenstein 3D's Mechahitler in the background.
Goat Simulator 3 Will Feature a Nod to Wolfenstein 3D

Goat Simulator 3 looks like it's going to be an insanely fun ride, and the game is upping the ante with this reference to 90s first-person shooters.

An image of the Doomslayer from Doom stood in front of a John Deere tractor.
Hacker Jailbreaks John Deere Tractor, Installs Doom

Over the decades, Doom players have been finding unique devices that can run the game, and now one fan combines the classic FPS with farming.

A photo of Doom co-creator John Romero holding up his right hand.
John Romero Says Doom Was The 90th Game He Made

John Romero is considered something of a pioneer for co-creating Doom, but it turns out it took him a long time before the iconic FPS emerged.

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It Will Soon Be Possible to Play as the Cat From Stray in Doom

BlueTwelve Studio's newly released Stray catches the attention of the cat-loving gaming community, as well as inspiring a smorgasbord of mods.

Image from Doom showing a hand reaching up to pet a Cacodemon.
Doom Mod Lets Players Pet and Befriend the Cacodemon

Doom is not exactly known for its non-aggressive action, but this add-on makes it possible to become friends with one of the game's enemies.

Screenshot from Doom Eternal showing the Doomslayer's helmet.
Doom Eternal on Switch Is Getting a Limited Edition Physical Release

Doom Eternal was highly praised when it first released, and a new development shows the Switch port will be getting physical copies soon.

Image from the original Doom showing an imp being shot by a shotgun.
It’s Now Possible to Play Doom Within Doom

Doom is the poster child of video game modding, and this one person manages to take the original and create an Inception-style amalgamation.

Image of a hand activating a Canon scanner that has Doom playing on the screen.
Doom Fan Gets the Game Running on an Old Scanner

There are so many weird and wacky devices that the original Doom can be played on, including this example of someone porting it to a Canon scanner.

Screenshot from Doom showing the Doomguy fighting the Spider Mastermind.
It’s Now Possible to Play Doom in BIOS

There are so many ways people have been able to port and play the original Doom, including a method that opens the game before the main OS boots up.

Image from Doom 2 showing a custom map with Pac-Man style items to collect.
Themed Doom 2 Mod Celebrates Pac-Man’s 42nd Birthday

Pac-Man celebrates turning more than four decades old, and these modders decide to honor the occasion through the medium of custom Doom 2 maps.

Image from a Wolfenstein 3D mod that shows the game in a retirement home.
Wolfenstein 3D Mod Reimagines All Characters as Retirees

Wolfenstein 3D is 30 years old now, part of the retro milieu that kick-started the FPS genre, but a modder wonders how it would in a later setting.

An image showing Doom Guy with a background from a Quake level.
Upcoming Mod Is an Actual Crossover Between Doom And Quake

Doom and Quake fans will likely have dreamt of the day there was a crossover of the two, and now it seems that fantasy is about to become reality.

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Rumor: Almost Every Xbox Studio Has Something to Present for the June 2022 Showcase

A new rumor suggests that almost all Xbox studios submitted something for the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase event on June 12.

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Doom Developer id Software Hiring for an Unannounced Project

Doom developer id Software is hiring for an unannounced project, which mentions it will be a FPS game much like other games from its library.

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The Doom 3 logo with the 3 crossed out and a bloody 4 written underneath instead.
New Cancelled Doom 4 Images Emerge

There was a time when Doom 2016 was likely going to be something different, and some new images have come to the fore showing what could have been.

Image from the Voxel Violence mod showing Minecraft blocks within Doom.
This Doom Mod Basically Turns the Game Into Minecraft

There have been mods where people recreated Doom maps within Minecraft, but this seems to be the first instance of someone doing the opposite.

The original art of DOOM (1993)
New Doom 2 Level Released to Raise Money for Ukraine

Twenty-seven years after Doom 2’s release, former id designer and founder John Romero announces the release of a new level in support of Ukraine.