Doom: The Dark Ages hits 3 million players, but is the success real?
Is Bethesda's victory lap warranted or is it an attempt to drum up some viral marketing?
Nvidia GeForce driver adds DLSS 4 optimizations for Doom: The Dark Ages
Nvidia's GeForce Graphics Driver version 576.40 includes DLSS 4 optimizations for Doom: The Dark Ages and New World: Aeternum. The update also introduces several fixes for the RTX 50 series GPUs.
Intel adds optimizations for Doom: The Dark Ages, including integrated graphics
Intel's newly released Arc Graphics Windows Driver v32.0.101.6793 includes Game On Driver support for Doom: The Dark Ages and Japanese Drift Master. The update supports Arc B-series, A-series, and Core Ultra processors with integrated Intel Arc GPUs.
Doom: The Dark Ages discs contain almost no data, require full game downloads
All console copies require downloading nearly 100 GB
Doom: The Dark Ages, 36 GPU Benchmark
Doom: The Dark Ages is the latest ray-traced FPS from id Software. We'll be benchmarking the "hell" out of it, and no doubt a few configurations will be doomed.
Doom: The Dark Ages launches to positive reviews
Doom: The Dark Ages is a visually stunning, action-packed shooter with addictive gameplay. While it may not reach the intensity of Doom Eternal, reviewers praise its satisfying combat and rich content, calling it a strong and worthy addition to the franchise. Check out our full benchmark review tomorrow to see how it performs across different hardware.
New AMD drivers add support for Doom: The Dark Ages, FSR 4 to many titles
AMD's latest Radeon GPU drivers not only bring optimizations for Doom: The Dark Ages and F1 25, but introduce FSR 4 support for more than a dozen games including Ghost of Tsushima, Frostpunk 2 and GTA V Enhanced.
Nvidia bundles Doom: The Dark Ages with RTX 50-series GPUs... if you can find one
Nvidia also unveiled the game's path tracing implementation
The Atari ST was eight years too early for Doom, but not anymore
A native port to an emulated 8 MHz processor
Doom II's infamous 23,000-demon map finally beaten after 13 years
Hell has been conquered
Doom can now run in a self-contained QR code. Sort of
The developer employed an extreme level of code miniaturization to achieve his goal
Doom $666 "Will It Run Edition" literally comes in a collector's box that can run the game
Bundle includes a Cacodemon-shaped handheld that plays the game
Doom: The Dark Ages is coming to Battle.net, signaling a new Microsoft trend
New gameplay details also emerge
Doom defies the impossible by running in TypeScript's type system
Trillions of lines, multiple programming languages, and a year of sweat to run Doom at an unplayable frame rate
Doom running on an Apple HDMI dongle from 2013, because of course it does
Lightning-to-AV adapter contains a surprisingly robust SoC
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John Carmack developed Doom's engine during a 28-hour coding marathon
How one grueling coding marathon changed gaming and tech forever
A true gaming pioneer Doom is one of the most successful and influential video games ever created, and John Carmack was the lead programmer behind this groundbreaking project. Carmack went above and beyond to bring Doom to life, finalizing its code during a grueling coding marathon that few could endure.
Doom: The Dark Ages gameplay details, release date, and system requirements revealed
Hardware-accelerated ray tracing and NVMe storage required
Highly anticipated: As Bethesda and id Software start the final hype cycle before the launch of Doom: The Dark Ages on May 15, the official PC system requirements reveal that ray tracing, a once-optional feature that dramatically reduces frame rates, is increasingly becoming mandatory in major game releases. Notably, the game also requires an NVMe SSD.
Developer ports Doom into a Microsoft Word document
Doom has been ported to most computing platforms and some unconventional formats
Latest Doom port runs inside a PDF document, but performance is limited
Rip, tear, and Emscripten
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Raspberry Pi 5 runs Doom 3 at 4K using an external GPU
The Pi 5 can handle PCIe 3.0 speeds and fairly old AMD GPUs
WTF?! The Raspberry Pi 5's expanded PCIe functionality is one of its most enticing upgrades over its predecessors. Most owners likely use it to install fast storage, AI chips, or network cards, but modders have successfully connected it to dedicated graphics cards. Although the Pi isn't a gaming PC, installing a GPU on one could unlock interesting possibilities.
