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A funny — but true — joke at TechCrunch is that the security desk might as well be called the Department of Bad News, since, well, have you seen what we’ve covered of late? There is a never-ending supply of devastating breaches, pervasive surveillance and dodgy startups flogging the downright dangerous. Sometimes though — albeit rarely — there are glimmers of hope that we want to share. Not least because doing the right thing, even (and especially) in the face of adversity, helps make the cyber-realm that little bit…

Jonathan Majors is out. The Kang Dynasty has turned dy-nasty. So what is Marvel to do with the rest of the Multiverse Saga? Well, ask fans and the majority will tell you they want Doctor Doom to step up in Kang’s place. But who should bring the Latverian ruler to life in the MCU? Don’t worry, folks have an answer to that casting conundrum too. Kevin Feige, if you’re losing sleep over which actor to entrust to give us the best Victor Von Doom we’ve ever seen on screen (not that it’s much of a competition, but still), then…

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Believe it or not, these are not even the weirdest ways folks have found to play Doom.Gif: YouTube - Sprite_TM / Ancient / SeanHodginsIf anybody remembers the old “Can it run Crysis?” meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On the flip side, “Can it run Doom?” has a separate connotation. It belies the ingenuity of tinkerers and DIYers trying to find the most unique system to support a game that first hit store shelves on Dec. 10, 1993.But…

Nvidia is quite forthcoming about its themed hardware products. In October, Team Green launched an Alan-Wake 2-themed graphics card in honor of the horror sequel’s release. Now it’s Doom‘s turn to get the RTX 4000 treatment. If you want to get your hands on a 4090 GPU styled after id Software’s iconic shooter, Nvidia is giving you a few days to take part in a giveaway. In a recent post on Twitter, the tech giant has said it’s celebrating Doom‘s 30th year with a chance to win one of the most powerful pixel pushers in…

The original Doom recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, making me feel quite old. As well as being an early blueprint for the FPS genre, id Software’s iconic shooter is also a popular modding playground. Sometimes, these mods harken back to even older gaming days. Modders Gokuma and Kontra Kommando have crafted a love letter to an absolute classic ’80s slasher film. Specifically, they’ve turned Doom into Friday the 13th. More specifically still, they’ve based it on the NES adaptation, turning the 1989 side-scrolling…

Well, it’s been about a hundredth of a femtosecond, let’s see what people are trying to port Doom onto now. Oh my, would you look at that! It appears as though it’s possible to get id Software’s iconic FPS to “run” on cells. In a meeting of technology and biology, PhD student Lauren “Ren” Ramlan at MIT (as shared by Reddit user AnNdPh) has figured out a way to use E. coli cells to sort of run Doom. Now, I’m not scientifically minded, so I don’t fully understand how they do it.…

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. To celebrate the occasion, John Carmack and John Romero – both of whom played a pivotal role in the game’s development – reflect on their time spent working on Doom. As you can imagine, it holds a lot of fond memories for the pair, who some have described as gaming’s equivalent of Lennon and…

In late August 1993, a young programmer named Dave Taylor walked into an office block on the Lyndon B Johnson freeway in Mesquite, Texas, to start a new job. The building had a jet black glass exterior and sat utterly incongruent amid acres of car parks, single-storey industrial units and strip malls. Game designer Sandy Petersen called it the Devil’s Rubik’s Cube. Taylor’s new workplace was on the sixth floor in office 615. The carpets, he discovered, were stained with spilled soda, the ceiling tiles yellowed by water…

The original DOOM is 30 years old now. That means it has been a little over thirty years since Nintendo turned down Id’s offer to port their games to the PC and began a chain reaction that would result in Carmack, Romero, and co. creating the FPS genre. Thanks, Nintendo! I should also thank John Romero since the co-creator and level designer of the original DOOM has just released SIGIL II, an all-new unofficial DOOM campaign completely free of charge. I still haven’t had the time to experience the sequel, but, if it is…