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Google's mapped fly brain is now playing Doom and Beat Saber
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Google's mapped fly brain is now playing Doom and Beat Saber

Google published the first complete map of a male adult fruit fly's brain last week — and within days, software engineers had it playing Doom and Beat Saber. The connectome, called MaleCNS v1.0, took...
John Romero reveals id Software sold cheap boxes to Taiwanese pirates to spread Doom
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John Romero reveals id Software sold cheap boxes to Taiwanese pirates to spread Doom

At a QuakeCon 2026 panel, id Software co-founder John Romero revealed that the studio didn't just tolerate Taiwanese pirates copying and reselling Doom — it actively partnered with them, selling empty...
Mick Gordon to perform Doom soundtrack live for the first time at Radar Festival
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Mick Gordon to perform Doom soundtrack live for the first time at Radar Festival

Mick Gordon is headlining Radar Festival in the UK next summer — and it will be the first time the Doom soundtrack has ever been performed live in full. Although Gordon played a medley at The Game Awa...
Doom is coming to the Commodore 64 — and it actually looks impressive
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Doom is coming to the Commodore 64 — and it actually looks impressive

Engineer and programmer Steve McCrea is building a working port of Doom for the Commodore 64, the 8-bit home computer discontinued just a year after Doom's original 1993 release. The project is still...
Why the Neo Geo can't run Doom — and it's not about raw power
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Why the Neo Geo can't run Doom — and it's not about raw power

Doom runs on earbuds, printers, Notepad, and even inside itself — but the Neo Geo, the early '90s arcade-style console famous for its brutal launch price and impressive pixel-pushing specs, turns out...
Alpha Dog Games is independent again two years after Microsoft shut it down
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Alpha Dog Games is independent again two years after Microsoft shut it down

Alpha Dog Games — the Halifax studio behind mobile Doom spin-off Mighty DOOM — has re-emerged as an independent developer, two years after Microsoft closed it. Founder Shawn Woods confirmed the news i...
Civvie 11 Blasts Xbox for Gutting id Software After Doom's Decade of Dominance
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Civvie 11 Blasts Xbox for Gutting id Software After Doom's Decade of Dominance

Shooter historian and YouTuber Civvie 11 has gone on record calling out Microsoft's treatment of id Software following the latest round of Xbox layoffs, which will cut more than 3,000 staff across the...
id Software director Hugo Martin pushes back on claims the studio was gutted by Xbox layoffs
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id Software director Hugo Martin pushes back on claims the studio was gutted by Xbox layoffs

id Software creative director Hugo Martin has gone on record to deny reports that the studio was devastated by the recent Xbox layoffs, calling claims it has been "nerfed into the ground and gutted" f...
Doom named one of the 25 most influential works of American culture by the Washington Post
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Doom named one of the 25 most influential works of American culture by the Washington Post

The Washington Post has placed Doom — id Software's 1993 first-person shooter — on its list of the 25 most influential works of American culture, assembled to mark the 250th anniversary of the United...