DOOM

id Software · Bethesda Softworks

Released
May 12, 2016
Platforms
Windows
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  1. PC Gamer

    This mod transforms Doom into a terrifying tactical shooter, and it's partly inspired by another PC gaming classic

    It takes a brave soul to ask the question "What if Doom was an incredibly slow-moving tactical shooter?" In fact, it's not a question I ever thought I'd want an answer to—we aren't exactly short of grim-faced, hyper-lethal first-person shooters these days. But the most recent foo

  2. PC Gamer

    I got so freaked out by the fact that Gordon Freeman is canonically 27 that I decided to find out how old all the other classic FPS protagonists are, and it didn't make me feel better

    When I first played Half-Life at the tender age of 11, I found it a terrifying experience. Admittedly, I was scared of pretty much everything at 11. Wasps, heights, loud noises, football (or more specifically, everyone finding out how bad I was at football). I was an anxious chil

  3. PC Gamer

    id co-founder John Carmack revisits Doom at QuakeCon: 'Still a great game after all these years!'

    t this year's QuakeCon in Gaylord, Texas, a number of id Software's OGs and founders are in attendance for a retrospective talk and reunion, and it looks like legendary programmer John Carmack took some time to refamiliarize himself with the reason for the season... Read more.

  4. PC Gamer

    John Romero says id Software once sold empty Doom boxes to Taiwanese pirates so fans there could have legit copies: 'For us, it was distribution'

    Doom, one of the most influential videogames of all time, was famously distributed via the shareware model: The game's first chapter was completely free, and if you liked it, you sent id Software some money and they mailed you the remaining two episodes... Read more.

  5. PC Gamer

    Proving Doom can actually run on anything, one programmer has made a working build for Commodore 64

    You can play Doom on a vape, a printer, an oscilloscope, a pregnancy test, an ATM, and inside Doom itself, but can you play it on a Commodore 64? The old 8-bit powerhouse was discontinued just a year after Doom's 1993 release, and while it was capable of small miracles for its ti

  6. PC Gamer

    Early '90s animation tools were so primitive that Doom's lead artist says he pretty much did the whole thing with 'the undo key'

    Human ingenuity is a powerful—sometimes terrifying—thing. Throughout history, no matter how basic the tools available to us, we have always found a way to build the weird obsessions that appear in our minds. You know, like Stonehenge, or the Pyramids, or Doom (1993)... Read more.

  7. PC Gamer

    The Washington Post selects Doom as one of the 25 'most influential works of American culture'

    We often talk about Doom—the original 1993 shooter from the young upstarts at id Software—as one of the most influential videogames of all time . But the Washington Post, one of the country's most highly-regarded papers of record, has elevated it to an even higher plateau: It has

  8. PCGamesN

    Doom dev Id is now "about the same size we were when making Doom 2016" after layoffs

    A message from Id Software thanks fans for their support, but says it is still big enough "to build the games and tech we're known for." Read the full story on PCGamesN: Doom dev Id is now "about the same size we were when making Doom 2016" after layoffs

  9. PCGamesN

    Id Software founder John Carmack mourns layoffs: "Games need to succeed, not just be beloved"

    John Carmack expresses sadness for the job cuts at Doom and Quake developer Id Software, but believes that legacy isn't enough to survive. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Id Software founder John Carmack mourns layoffs: "Games need to succeed, not just be beloved"

  10. PC Gamer

    How do you put a price tag on a legacy like id Software's?

    In 1984, an upstart retail company called Costco had just opened its first handful of voluminous warehouse stores on the west coast of the United States when it decided to try an experiment. It installed a hot dog cart in front of its San Diego store and started selling Hebrew Na

  11. PC Gamer

    I've played countless Doom engine games, so believe me when I say this one that combines the FPS with JRPG combat might be the coolest one in 30 years

    I know my Doom , and its many derivatives . I've been covering it for years . It has almost never left my PC in over three decades, so I do not say this lightly. End of Starchild —a completely free, standalone game from prolific musician and indie dev Em Essex—might be the single

  12. PC Gamer

    One mad lad has spent the past 3 years remixing hundreds of classic metal songs in the Doom midi soundfont

    If there's one thing I respect in this fallen world anymore, it's commitment to a bit. Jim's Music Dungeon on YouTube is Knee Deep in the Bit, having taken hundreds of classic metal songs and made them sound like Doom level music⁠—and he isn't slowing down... Read more.

  13. PC Gamer

    In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?

    We all know Doom was so popular, so monumental, that it changed videogames forever. As a society, we're still obsessed with installing Doom on increasingly improbable devices, from pregnancy tests to vapes . But sometimes I run into an old factoid about Doom, some detail from its

  14. PC Gamer

    The original Doom soundtrack joins 'our national playlist' in the US Library of Congress

    The United States Library of Congress got a little cooler today by inducting the soundtrack of the original Doom into its National Recording Registry. The Doom soundtrack, by composer Bobby Prince, is one of 25 recordings now designated as "audio treasures worthy of preservation

  15. PC Gamer

    Doom is 10 years old today, and you can pick it up for just $2 on Steam

    Today is the 10th anniversary of Doom—not the 1993 classic that changed the world, but the 2016 reboot that proved to be far better than I'd dared to hope. We celebrated the big birthday by confirming with Doom co-creator John Romero that Doom Guy was not intentionally rocking a

  16. PC Gamer

    It's time to set the record straight: Doomguy's armor does not have a tummy window, his shirt just got ripped

    I believe that Doomguy, the protagonist of seminal FPS series Doom, may have a more whimsical reputation than he deserves. The culprit? His belly, which is readily visible in Don Punchatz's cover art for the 1993 classic. Doomguy did not go into battle wearing a jaunty little cut

  17. PC Gamer

    A ludicrous Doom mod which adds 28 pilotable mechs just released after 2 years in development

    Ever since Godzilla first battled Mechagodzilla all the way back in 1974, it's been clear to everyone that nothing exists which cannot be made cooler by the inclusion of giant robots. This axiom is self-evident, so there's no need to ask a question like, "Would Doom be cooler if

  18. PC Gamer

    A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

    Doom is a cultural cornerstone, where every new piece of tech (gaming or otherwise) and every game is forced to somehow—no matter how impossible—run Doom. It's a test, and we've seen the 1993 classic on everything from a motherboard's BIOS , old potatoes , a Lego brick , to a hom

  19. PCGamesN

    Scientists get Doom running on chips powered by 200,000 human neurons, and those clever little cells are playing it too

    You've seen Doom run on a McDonald's cash register . You've seen it run on a lawnmower . You've seen it run on Google's search bar. Now you can see it running on some lab-grown brain cells fused to a microchip. Perhaps a glimpse into our distant cyborg future, the company behind

  20. PC Gamer

    In defense of Doom (the movie)

    Doom the movie has a rating of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, which puts it on the same tier as Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and the Assassin's Creed movie. Which is unfair. Assassin's Creed was terrible because it thought it was clever, drily dumping conspiracy theory-history with