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A dedicated group of fans has excavated a Doom mobile game from the sands of time and made it playable again. You won't find 2005's Doom RPG on the App Store or Play Store: it actually predates iOS and Android by a couple of years. And while Fountainhead Entertainment looked into bringing Doom RPG to Nintendo DS around the time of its original release, the game was exclusively available on Java- and BREW-compatible handsets. Until now. A small group of developers in Costa Rica going by the name of GEC.inc reverse…

A new MCU project based on a very popular villain seems to have been accidentally announced in an unlikely manner.Those listening to The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM were left surprised thanks to a conversation between Stern and co-host Robin Quivers the pair didn’t realise was being broadcast.In the conversation, which occurs as loud adverts are being played over their voices, Stern can be heard telling hisQuivers that he is working on a project based on Doctor Doom.Doctor Doom is a popular Marvel Comics villain, who…

Photo by Kevin Kane/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Doctor Doom is one of the most popular villains in Marvel history. And comic fans have been crying out for the character to make his MCU debut for ages. And this demand has only grown now that fans have been treated to their first glimpse of his long-term foe, Reed Richards. However, today Howard Stern might have accidentally confirmed that a Doctor Doom project is in the works, and he is involved in it.  This rumor started when Twitter user…

Megalonyx, an extinct ground sloth.Illustration: Steve Brusatte / The Rise and Reign of MammalsDeep time is a headache. So many changes have happened in the cosmos, on our planet, and through evolution to create the world we know today. One of the most recent major changes, relatively speaking, was the K-Pg extinction, the mass death of the dinosaurs and many other creatures in the immediate aftermath of an asteroid impact 66 million years.01:57Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DYesterday 4:32PMThe…

Doom being ported to unusual hardware has become a common recurring tech theme over the years, but now it has been ported to a BIOS. Coreboot has been updated to version 4.17 today, reports Linux-centric news site Phoronix. Originally known as LinuxBIOS, which provides a better clue to its utility value, Coreboot 4.17 supports new motherboards, delivers a new bootloader, supports AMD Platform Secure Boot (PSB), comes with a handful of fixes, and… a port of Doom.Coreboot is a free and open-source BIOS implementation that…

Tesla CEO and prospective Twitter owner Elon Musk has written to employees of the electric car maker to say that working from home is no longer an option — they have to work a minimum of 40 hours per week from a Tesla office. In an email seen on Twitter, Musk tells Tesla workers that the 40-hour minimum is "less than we ask of factory workers" while going on to say that people will need to work from a main Tesla office, not a "remote branch office unrelated to the job duties" being performed. There was some hope,…

| Next month, Marvel Comics will finally launch its highly anticipated series of digital download codes for Fortnite. In addition, they will also release a comic, Fortnite x Marvel: Zero War. This week's weekly reveal highlights Fortnite x Marvel: Zero War #4, which will be a Doctor Doom focused issue. More importantly, the digital download will be for a Fortnite x Marvel: Zero War spray? Is Doctor Doom launching his own line of cologne that captures the scent of megalomania and months-old armor sweat? Maybe. But how…

The reviews are in for Firestarter, and they are pretty brutal. Firestarter is the highly anticipated screen adaption of the eponymous Stephen King novel. The film was highly anticipated, but when no reviews of the film were published a week before the film’s release, fans sensed that something was amiss. Now the reviews are in and, despite the buildup, Firestarter is being universally panned by critics. Noel Murray of The Los Angeles Times wrote that the film failed to translate the richness and complexity of King’s…

There are some ideas in comics that are as original as they are inevitable. When Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham introduced the Council of Reeds, an interdimensional body composed entirely of different Mister Fantastics, it was both a surprise and retrospectively obvious. Of course the super-intelligent science god Reed Richards would seek peer cooperation with his own multiversal selves. In his Avengers, Jason Aaron has riffed mightily on that utterly comic book idea of cooperation between parallel selves, first…

A few weeks after he was banned from visiting a London school by the Catholic church, Simon James Green was confronted with an array of protest paraphernalia. The author, whose stories for young adults have been applauded for reflecting the upside, as well as the angst, of queer teen lives, was at an awards ceremony in Bristol. Members of a local school’s LGBT+ society had made banners and leaflets proclaiming their solidarity, and denouncing “kids in Catholic school locked in the closet”.“It was so touching, so all-round…