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Quake Champions enters Early Access phase on August 22nd

Bethesda has announced that id Software’s multiplayer fragfest, Quake Champions, will officially exit the Closed Beta phase and enter into Early Access on Steam and through the Bethesda.net launcher on August 22nd. This Early Access build will come with a host of new content, including new maps, features, and a special new Champion – the mighty DOOM Slayer from id Software’s hit game, DOOM. Continue reading Quake Champions enters Early Access phase on August 22nd

Quake 2 looks absolutely stunning – and noisy as hell – with real-time GPU pathtracing renderer

Path tracing and ray tracing are two renderers that we strongly believe will benefit video-games in one or two decades. Yeah, we are talking about something that some people may never experience, however real-time pathtracing is capable of producing incredible reflections, shadows, and global illumination effects. And gamers can get an idea of what pathtracing is all about as Edd Biddulph has been working on a GPU pathtracer for Quake 2. Continue reading Quake 2 looks absolutely stunning – and noisy as hell – with real-time GPU pathtracing renderer

Doom 3 – New graphics overhaul mod aims to improve the visuals of this 13 year old shooter

Doom 3 was released in 2004 and featured some truly amazing visuals for its time. However, and like everything released a decade ago, it does not really look great these days. Well, that’s until you start modding it. Modder ‘IZZoOn’ has released the Doom 3 NextGen Extreme mod for id Software’s shooter, aiming to overhaul its visuals for those who want to re-visit it.
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Extreme Wolfenstein 3D version 3 is now available, aiming to enhance id Software’s classic shooter

Modder ‘Sigma64’ has released a new version of his Extreme mod for Wolfenstein 3D. Extreme Wolenstein 3D is an entity and gameplay enhancement pack for Wolfenstein 3D that improves realism, graphics, gameplay, adds completely new features, and has a few new secrets. Continue reading Extreme Wolfenstein 3D version 3 is now available, aiming to enhance id Software’s classic shooter

Beautiful Doom 6.2.1 is now available for download

A few days ago, we informed you about the latest version of the Beautiful Doom mod for the original Doom games. And today, modder ‘Jekyll_Grim_Payne’ released a brand new version of it. According to the modder, this new version unlocks the weapon sets from player classes. As such, there’s no longer “vanilla weapons marine” or “enhanced weapons marine” and instead gamers can enable or disable the enhanced weapons via a simple option. Continue reading Beautiful Doom 6.2.1 is now available for download

Doom – Update 6.66 unlocks all multiplayer DLC, free weekend trial announced

Bethesda and id Software have released a brand new update for DOOM. According to the release notes, this patch unlocks all multiplayer DLC to everyone. This basically means that all of the DLC maps, weapons, armor sets and demons will be available for all players to enjoy. Continue reading Doom – Update 6.66 unlocks all multiplayer DLC, free weekend trial announced

DOOM appears to have sold two million copies on the PC

According to Steamspy’s data, DOOM has sold more than two million copies on the PC. DOOM was released in May 2016 and it took Bethesda over one year – and a number of special deals/discounts – to hit that 2 million goal. Moreover, and contrary to other publishers, Bethesda completely removed Denuvo once DOOM was cracked. Continue reading DOOM appears to have sold two million copies on the PC

Beautiful Doom 6.2.0 is now available, improves visuals, adds new blood effects & new BFG9000 attack

Modder ‘Jekyll_Grim_Payne’ has released a new version of his amazing Beautiful Doom mod for the original Doom games. This mod is basically the grandfather of other popular mods, like Brutal Doom, and was originally released back in 2008. Continue reading Beautiful Doom 6.2.0 is now available, improves visuals, adds new blood effects & new BFG9000 attack