2025-06-09 20:51 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Doom 3 is far from the best entry to the long-running FPS series, but a moody atmosphere, created by impressive lighting technology, still makes its Martian setting a compelling place to explore. It's also helped a group of modders called Team Future to use the game as the foundation for a sprawling expansion, Doom 3: Phobos, that adds a lengthy, unofficial story spin-off to the game well worth checking out. Now, as part of GOG's effort to streamline its users' ability to easily find and install mods, Phobos has been relaunched on the platform. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Quak
2023-08-02 21:00 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
A QuakeCon sale gives you huge discounts on many top series from the legendary studios behind some of the best FPS games. Along with Doom and Quake creator id Software, Bethesda (now a part of Microsoft) also comprises Wolfenstein developers Machine Games, Dishonored and Deathloop maker Arkane Studios, and Tango Gameworks, the studio behind The Evil Within and Hi-Fi Rush. Now, that huge catalogue gets some equally massive discounts to celebrate the upcoming QuakeCon. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get Bethesda's best games for dirt cheap ahead of Starfield Dishonored meets Jurass
2023-06-16 19:49 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Fallout, Dishonored, Wolfenstein, Quake, The Evil Within - you name it, Bethesda has some of the best PC games in its catalog, and you can get most of them for next to nothing right now thanks to a sale with up to 85% off the likes of Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout New Vegas, Wolfenstein 2, and Prey. With the Starfield release date swooping over the horizon, what better time than now to enjoy Bethesda's best? Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dishonored meets Jurassic Park in this steampunk RPG Awesome Games Done Quick's complete January 2018 schedule has been re
2023-05-28 13:58 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Several of the biggest modern FPS games on Steam are currently on sale with discounts up to 90% off, but you'll need to move fast to grab them. Love a good shooter? So do we here at PCGamesN, and some of the best FPS games from recent years are part of an ongoing Steam sale, but you'll have to act quickly if you want to grab the bargains. Whatever your flavor of FPS, you'll likely find something of note among these Steam bangers. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: EA says even more FPS studios are facing "increased harassment" Battlefield 2042 season 4 release date trailer is close-q
2023-05-24 14:00 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
I've thought before about a possible Doom 3 remake. The environments look good, there are some terrific enemy designs - especially the big zombies - and that P90-style sub-machine gun is great fun, too. But among the pantheon of FPS games, which naturally includes the original Doom, Doom 3 struggles to justify itself. It's a bit slow, a bit sober, and it's absent that kind of gliding-while-gunning sensation that makes the id Software series such chaotic fun. But now that's all changed. Thanks to a huge new mod, Doom 3 has been remade as an ultra-quick run-and-gun boomer shooter, closer to both
2023-02-27 17:35 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
A huge Bethesda sale is underway, with Fallout New Vegas, The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein The New Colossus, Dishonored, and the Elder Scrolls games Oblivion and Skyrim all available at a discount, as GOG drops prices as part of a dedicated developer event. More intriguing however, the original, 2004 version of Doom 3 has been released as part of the BFG Edition, with the classic FPS game and its multiplayer also available as part of the sale. If you want to play the id Software shooter as was originally intended, now's your chance. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Doom mod remakes D
2021-08-20 00:45 UTC · Eurogamer
Switch-owning fans of demon murder (who somehow still haven't played id Software's legendary Doom saga) are in luck; as part of this year's QuakeCon, id has announced a five-game Doom Slayers Collection for Nintendo's console, which is available to purchase now. The reveal isn't too much of a surprise - US retailer Best Buy successfully managed to leak the Doom Slayers Collection for Switch earlier today ahead of its official reveal - but the game's immediate post-announcement launch most certainly was, and Switch players can now enjoy some demon-hued FPS japes all in one bundle, featuring sem
2021-01-12 12:01 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
You can now rip and tear your way through Doom 3 in VR if you fancy it. The old PC game has been rejigged for the wireless VR headset Oculus Quest 1 and 2 by prolific modder DrBeef. Doom has always excelled in demon-busting combat, but the added prospect of VR makes the experience feel all the eerier. I, a coward, do not like the idea of taking on a spider with an upside-down head in VR, but you might be braver than I. The fan-made port is called Doom3Quest, and comes with more than 12 hours of campaign content alongside updated graphics. You can also expect fully tracked VR weapons and VR UI
2020-09-15 10:53 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Not content with letting players dive face first into the worlds of Half-Life and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, prolific modder DrBeef now has their sights set on porting Doom 3 over to wireless VR headset Oculus Quest. Ever wondered what's nestling behind a cacodemon's tonsils? Of course you have. We all have. Much like the modder's previous ports, Doom 3 will require the user to own a copy of the original game, alongside third party app SideQuest. This is a sideloading app for Oculus Quest that lets you do all sorts of neat stuff. Simon Brown, aka DrBeef, recently told UploadVR that running
2019-07-27 15:52 UTC · Eurogamer
Ah, Doom 64. In the absence of a PC, my console-fuelled video game childhood was left with Doom 64. But, improbably, Doom 64 was great. This 1997 Nintendo 64-exclusive Doom game was not a port of the original Doom, or any of the other Doom games. Nor was it meant to be the 64th Doom game (although by this point will it be?). Rather, it was a sequel developed by Midway that took place after Doom 2. I remember Doom 64 looking fantastic to my teenage eyes, and the music was properly atmospheric. You spent a lot of time shooting demons, of course, but there was a real horror feel to the game. It f
2014-05-10 17:00 UTC · Product Release · Valve
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2013-01-14 12:00 UTC · Kotaku
This is a story about Doom 3's source code and how beautiful it is. Yes, beautiful. Allow me to explain. After releasing my video game Dyad I took a little break. I read some books and watched some movies I'd put off for too long. I was working on the European version of Dyad, but that time was mostly waiting for feedback from Sony quality assurance, so I had a lot of free time. After loafing around for a month or so I started to seriously consider what I was going to do next. I wanted to extract the reusable/engine-y parts of Dyad for a new project. When I originally started working on Dyad
2012-11-27 09:00 UTC · Shacknews · Alice O'Connor
As it does so very kindly like to do, id Software has released another dollop of engine source code. This latest is somewhat less exciting than many, simply offering the updated Doom 3 source from the BFG Edition but hey, now the folks at home can make the best and shiniest Doom 3 games yet. As with id's other recent source releases, it's up on GitHub for your coding conveniences. Or you can download the full pack from Shacknews. Of course, just because the engine source has been released, it doesn't mean BFG Edition is free--all the game data and assets are still protected.Id has also dropped
2012-11-11 18:30 UTC · Kotaku
The release of Doom 3: BFG saw the disappearance of the original Doom 3 from Steam, notable for two reasons: 1) the game was rather cheap and 2) there were a bunch of mods for it. People were rightly pissed, Bethesda Softworks offered a hurried non-answer, and the whole thing looked like a cynical sales-protection strategy. Well, OK, fine, you win. Doom 3, the original, is back on Steam. For $10. Specifically, here's the pricing: • Doom 3 Pack: Discounted at $12.99 • Doom 3: Discounted at $9.99 • Resurrection of Evil: Discounted at $4.99 Further, Bethesda says Doom 3: BFG Edition's GPL source
2012-10-18 09:00 UTC · Kotaku
I've always felt strangely about Doom 3. On the one hand, it was a fairly revolutionary game, graphically. The lighting was striking. On the other hand, it looked kind of gross: humans in the game were starkly lit with strange, bump-mapped faces and odd, robotic movements. But is that a bad thing or does it add to the ambiance? Does the game's look stand the test of time, or is it a strange artifact from a simpler time? Here are some animated GIFs from the recently-released Doom 3 BFG Edition running on an Xbox 360. We'll let you, the Kotaku readers, decide.
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