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The Doom Marine was modelled after John Romero
"I am the Doomguy!"
Few video game protagonists are as iconic as the Doom Marine, which is kind of odd as we only see the first-person shooter hero's body illustrated on the game's cover. But it's an amazing cover, one etched in all of our collective minds as the pinnacle of early 90s heavy metal action. What we didn't know, until now, is that that guy was modelled after Doom's lead designer, John Romero.
John Romero is auctioning off original Doom 2 floppy disks
UPDATE: Sells for $3150 on eBay.
UPDATE 30/06/2017 2.52am: John Romero's original Doom 2 floppy disks sold for an astonishing $3150 on eBay.
Brutal Doom 64 mod will launch next week
Adds new lighting, gore, animations, enemies and more.
Acclaimed Doom modder Sergeant_Mark_IV, the person behind popular mod Brutal Doom, is releasing their upgraded version of Doom 64, Brutal Doom 64, next week on 30th October.
This PC mod will outfit Doom 64 with new special effects, particles, lightning, gore, sounds, weapon animations, enemies and cut content from Midway's 1997 spin-off. You can see how this enhanced fan remake looks in the trailer below:
Next week's release will be an early version of Brutal Doom 64, as more content will be added. The release next week will contain all 32 levels from the original game, but Sergeant_Mark_IV will still add enemies like Chaingunguy, Revenant and Mastermind in later versions. Enemies Archvile and Hellhound are planned too.
Doom 2 modder spends 300 hours making a three-hour level
"It had to to live up to the idea I'd been carrying around for so many years."
Doom modder Ben Mansell made a level for Doom 2 that is so big that it takes upwards of an hour to complete. Probably a few hours for most on a first run.
Someone once parodied Gone Home by merging it with Doom in the humourous video Gun Home. But now ex-BioShock and The Cave developer JP LeBreton is taking that seemingly ludicrous juxtaposition of first-person games seriously in his upcoming Doom 2 mod / memoir Autobiographical Architecture.
Watch Doom merged with God Hand in glorious mod video
Dragonkick your ass into... Mars?
Modder Edy Pagaza is working on a Doom mod that merges it with Capcom's 2006 PS2 classic beat-'em-up God Hand.
90s Doom mod made to advertise cereal is getting an HD remake
Chex and balances.
Back in 1996 ad agency Digital Cafe created a free Doom mod called Chex Quest as a pack-in toy for the popular breakfast cereal. Naturally, it was about protecting a sentient race of cereal from slimy green aliens. Now, the artist behind that project, Charles Jacobi, is working on an HD remake of the quirky commercial mod.
Doom 2 modder Doug Keener has recreated Jerry Seinfeld's classic NBC sitcom in id Software's 1994 shooter.
John Carmack to get this year's BAFTA Fellowship award
C++ for acceptance speech.
Legendary and maybe part-machine programmer John Carmack will receive this year's BAFTA Fellowship award, joining the likes of Gabe Newell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright and many others. He'll receive the award at the BAFTA Games Awards 7th April in London - an event happening alongside EGX Rezzed.
If you pre-order the Xbox One version of the new Doom, you get Doom 1 and Doom 2. So says the Xbox Store.
After 14 years John Romero is working on another shooter
The Doom co-creator returns to the genre he helped popularise.
Doom co-creator John Romero let it slip that he's starting development on a new shooter. His first since Daikatana in 2000.
Todd Hollenshead and his hair leave id Software after 17 years
That salon time.
Todd Hollenshead has walked from id Software, Bethesda has confirmed.
Doom maker John Romero has "plans" for old-school FPS
"There will be no Daikatana 2!"
Has John Romero - the abundantly-haired creator of games Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein - given up on making an old-school FPS?
Carmack: games "reduce aggression"
Doom creator sees shooters as "cathartic".
Doom creator and industry veteran John Carmack has hit back at accusations that games promote violent tendencies in players, arguing that they're in fact "cathartic" and more likely to reduce aggression.
DOOM film reboot green-lit - report
To be smothered in 3D.
Universal wants to make a new DOOM film, despite the first unanimously falling foul of critics and averaging a lowly 34 per cent (Metacritic).
VideoDoom II on XBLA - First 10 Minutes
Play Doom II in the office? Yes please!
Play Doom II in the office? Yes please!
Along with Voodoo Dice.
Appearing on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow will be Voodoo Dice and Doom 2.
Doom II is still heading to XBLA
Bethesda just can't say when.
Destructoid has learned that the Xbox Live Arcade version of Doom II, first seen last year, is still intended for release.
Q3A and Doom II XBLA at QuakeCon
Both playable, so both out soon hopefully.
The long-awaited Xbox Live Arcade port of Quake III Arena - Quake Arena Arcade - is on show at QuakeCon in playable form, suggesting an impending release.
Rock! (Actor. No other meaning.)
Going to Mars? Don't bother taking any cheese. Judging by the recently released trailer for the DOOM movie, which is available download now as a High Definition video, there's plenty to go around.
Of course, we've no idea whether the film will be good or bad. We have suspicions, but they're mainly to do with the lack of fountains of Hellish gore in the trailer. If the full film has Hell, lots of big scary demons that don't look at all like men-in-suits-with-four-buglike-eyes-QUICK-RUN and, dunno, they fire half the cast, it might be brilliant.
It's definitely more DOOM III than the others though - heck, it looks like they only have one flashlight, for a start. Heck I tells ya. Take a look anyway. It'll give you something to talk about in the pub, and then back away from occasionally reloading your glass.
Plus, the stars speak out.
A new trailer for the forthcoming Doom movie is now available to view on US website IGN.
You can also watch a Comic-Con panel discussion with the stars and producers, and find out what The Rock's nickname really means.
The Doom movie begins with Sarge (The Rock) leading his team to a Martian research facility where scientists have just identified the remaining 10 per cent of the human genome, with results that aren't really that hilarious. When it all kicks off and corpses start turning up left right and centre, it's down to John Grimm (Karl Urban) to save the day.
