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Doom running in Hytale.

News

Here's Doom running in Hytale before it's even out, thanks to modders

Because of course

Jan. 12, 2026 Mark Warren

1 comment

A gatling gun being pointed at some classic Doom blob demons in Doom.

News

Doom's 32nd birthday has birthed a site which lets you rip and tear through fan-made levels in your browser

Update: A bunch more context to doomscroll through

Dec. 17, 2025 Mark Warren

9 comments

John Romero at the GDC Awards 2023

News

Doom co-creator John Romero's shooter was a casualty of Microsoft's cuts, but it's being "completely redesigned" into a smaller game

"We're not starting at ground zero"

Dec. 10, 2025 Mark Warren

8 comments

The vault dweller at the entrance to Vault 12 in Doom mod Fallout: Bakersfield.

News

Vaults are open, flames are thrown and ghouls are sick, as Doom mod Fallout: Bakersfield shows off more shootering

Also, the recent trailer's 90s visuals have been delivered in 4K

Aug. 27, 2025 Mark Warren

12 comments

A shot of radio and vault canteen in some ruins in Doom mod Fallout: Bakersfield.

News

A surprise update for Fallout: Bakersfield, the Doom mod that rebuilds the RPG's Necropolis as a shooter level

Now 60% done

July 21, 2025 Mark Warren

12 comments

John Romero at the GDC Awards 2023

News

The new shooter from Romero Games loses funding as staff post they've been let go thanks to Microsoft cuts

Original Doom developer's studio "currently evaluating next steps"

July 3, 2025 Mark Warren

19 comments

A CAPTCHA using Doom.

News

Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm

Thy Flesh Confirmed

Jan. 2, 2025 Nic Reuben

26 comments

Two cacodemons attack the player in Doom, who retaliates with a minigun

News

Doom modders are annoyed at the "chum-bucket" of wrongly credited mods in the latest Doom remaster

Can I see your id?

Aug. 12, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

24 comments

A faked Doom screenshot with Doomguy holding an Evowera electric toothbrush.

News

Before you brush your teeth tonight, remember to install Doom on your electric toothbrush

The latest weird answer to "Can it run Doom?"

March 1, 2024 Alice O'Connor

10 comments

Doom running on a Husqvarna lawnmower

News

The next weird device to run Doom? Your lawnmower

Knee-Deep in the Shed

Feb. 23, 2024 Alice O'Connor

5 comments

You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious

News

You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious

How does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound?

Jan. 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis

16 comments

An alt-history glimpse at a Doom that could have been with Delta Doom, a mod inspired by the Doom Bible and various pre-release versions.

News

This Doom mod is made from Id Software's abandoned and rejected ideas

Drawing from alpha versions and Tom Hall's Doom Bible

Jan. 24, 2024 Alice O'Connor

2 comments

The player fires a shotgun at two zombiemen in Doom (1993)

Feature

Doom At 30: The developers of your favourite boomer shooters share their favourite things about Doom

Devs from Ultrakill, Turbo Overkill, Prodeus and more weigh in on why the shotgun is cool

Dec. 15, 2023 Alice Bell

13 comments

A screenshot from Doom mod Siren, showing a strange interior made up of parallel glowing green lines, with a terminal dimly visible in the distance.

Feature

Doom At 30: Siren is a great intro to the hellish world of Doom total conversions

These aren't your granddaddy's Imps

Dec. 15, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

7 comments

A spacious living room in MyHouse.wad (there are demon corpses in the background)

Feature

Doom At 30: MyHouse.wad is an extraordinary mod that asks, "What if Doom was an ultra creepy horror game?"

MyHouseOfLeaves.wad

Dec. 15, 2023 Saleh Karaman

16 comments

The Doom Slayer from Doom Eternal

Feature

Doom At 30: The evolution of Doom through its first levels

What the opening level of every mainline Doom game says about its place in FPS history

Dec. 14, 2023 Katharine Castle

21 comments

The player punches a pinky in Doom (1993)

Feature

Doom At 30: Does 1993's Doom still hold up for a first-time player today?

Simple pleasures

Dec. 14, 2023 Kiera Mills

28 comments

Blasting demons in an Ultimate Doom screenshot.

Feature

What's better: Doom's shotgun or Doom 2's super shotgun?

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games

Dec. 13, 2023 Alice O'Connor

68 comments

A selection of various panels from the 1996 DOOM comic book, along with the cover, as illustrated by Tom Grindberg.

Feature

Doom At 30: The 1996 Doom comic book is an over-the-top masterwork

"I'M A 12.0 ON THE 10.0 SCALE OF BADNESS!"

Dec. 13, 2023 Jeremy Blum

24 comments

Pixel art of five Doom enemies

Feature

Doom At 30: All classic enemies ranked by how much fun they'd be at a 30th birthday party

Just don't ask them to play Pass The Parcel, they'd rip and tear that thing to shreds

Dec. 12, 2023 Katharine Castle

14 comments

The artwork for unofficial Doom campaign Sigil 2, featuring a lot of skulls, bones, lava and pentagrams

News

John Romero marks Doom’s 30th birthday by putting out Sigil 2 - aka episode 6 - for free

Nine new punishing levels that continue the OG hell-shooter

Dec. 11, 2023 Matt Jarvis

7 comments

A screenshot from the beginning of DOOM, showing Doomguy looking at the corpse of a dead marine - a rough approximation of how I felt after 10 minutes of playing the game.

Feature

Doom At 30: An ode to Doom, the first game to give me motion sickness

30 years of waiting for FOV options

Dec. 11, 2023 Jeremy Blum

42 comments

The title screen of Doom from 1993

Feature

Doom At 30: John Romero remembers his seminal FPS so that we don't remember it wrong

The original id Software designer talks Carmack, cacodemons, and his Native American influence

Dec. 10, 2023 Jeremy Peel

32 comments

A scene from the intro to 2001 RPG Anachranox

News

DOOM creator keen on "ethical" uses for AI, but worried about AAA-style "homogenisation"

Also wouldn't mind bringing Anachronox back

Sept. 25, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

26 comments

A rat next to a brain floating in a jar

News

There’s a new weirdest way to play Doom: using rat neurons grown in a jar

It’ll be hard to top this, honestly.

July 12, 2023 Matt Jarvis

33 comments

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Doom running in Hytale.

News

Here's Doom running in Hytale before it's even out, thanks to modders

Because of course

Jan. 12, 2026 Mark Warren

1 comment

A gatling gun being pointed at some classic Doom blob demons in Doom.

News

Doom's 32nd birthday has birthed a site which lets you rip and tear through fan-made levels in your browser

Update: A bunch more context to doomscroll through

Dec. 17, 2025 Mark Warren

9 comments

John Romero at the GDC Awards 2023

News

Doom co-creator John Romero's shooter was a casualty of Microsoft's cuts, but it's being "completely redesigned" into a smaller game

"We're not starting at ground zero"

Dec. 10, 2025 Mark Warren

8 comments

The vault dweller at the entrance to Vault 12 in Doom mod Fallout: Bakersfield.

News

Vaults are open, flames are thrown and ghouls are sick, as Doom mod Fallout: Bakersfield shows off more shootering

Also, the recent trailer's 90s visuals have been delivered in 4K

Aug. 27, 2025 Mark Warren

12 comments

A shot of radio and vault canteen in some ruins in Doom mod Fallout: Bakersfield.

News

A surprise update for Fallout: Bakersfield, the Doom mod that rebuilds the RPG's Necropolis as a shooter level

Now 60% done

July 21, 2025 Mark Warren

12 comments

John Romero at the GDC Awards 2023

News

The new shooter from Romero Games loses funding as staff post they've been let go thanks to Microsoft cuts

Original Doom developer's studio "currently evaluating next steps"

July 3, 2025 Mark Warren

19 comments

A CAPTCHA using Doom.

News

Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm

Thy Flesh Confirmed

Jan. 2, 2025 Nic Reuben

26 comments

Two cacodemons attack the player in Doom, who retaliates with a minigun

News

Doom modders are annoyed at the "chum-bucket" of wrongly credited mods in the latest Doom remaster

Can I see your id?

Aug. 12, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

24 comments

A faked Doom screenshot with Doomguy holding an Evowera electric toothbrush.

News

Before you brush your teeth tonight, remember to install Doom on your electric toothbrush

The latest weird answer to "Can it run Doom?"

March 1, 2024 Alice O'Connor

10 comments

Doom running on a Husqvarna lawnmower

News

The next weird device to run Doom? Your lawnmower

Knee-Deep in the Shed

Feb. 23, 2024 Alice O'Connor

5 comments

You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious

News

You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious

How does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound?

Jan. 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis

16 comments

An alt-history glimpse at a Doom that could have been with Delta Doom, a mod inspired by the Doom Bible and various pre-release versions.

News

This Doom mod is made from Id Software's abandoned and rejected ideas

Drawing from alpha versions and Tom Hall's Doom Bible

Jan. 24, 2024 Alice O'Connor

2 comments

The artwork for unofficial Doom campaign Sigil 2, featuring a lot of skulls, bones, lava and pentagrams

News

John Romero marks Doom’s 30th birthday by putting out Sigil 2 - aka episode 6 - for free

Nine new punishing levels that continue the OG hell-shooter

Dec. 11, 2023 Matt Jarvis

7 comments

A scene from the intro to 2001 RPG Anachranox

News

DOOM creator keen on "ethical" uses for AI, but worried about AAA-style "homogenisation"

Also wouldn't mind bringing Anachronox back

Sept. 25, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

26 comments

A rat next to a brain floating in a jar

News

There’s a new weirdest way to play Doom: using rat neurons grown in a jar

It’ll be hard to top this, honestly.

July 12, 2023 Matt Jarvis

33 comments

Blocky ultraviolence with Doom played over Teletext using the doom-teletext mod.

News

Now you can play Doom over teletext

You can even play using a TV remote control

May 22, 2023 Alice O'Connor

15 comments

DOOMpad is a version of id Software's classic FPS Doom mirrored in Windows Notepad.

News

Doom is out now for Windows Notepad, sort of

It’s just mirrored in Notepad y’see

Oct. 12, 2022 CJ Wheeler

20 comments

The Cyberdemon blasts rockets in a Voxel Doom mod screenshot.

News

Amazing new Doom mod replaces enemy sprites with voxel models

Voxel Doom looks just like how I remember Doom

Aug. 18, 2022 Alice O'Connor

22 comments

Hacker Sick Codes got a modded version of Doom running on a John Deere tractor display.

News

Doom can now run on a jailbroken tractor

I’ve got a brand new combine harvester, and I’ll give you the keycard

Aug. 15, 2022 CJ Wheeler

21 comments

Stray In Doom is a third-person mod for GZDoom that adds the cat from Stray.

News

Stray's cat has now been modded into Doom

Isn’t Doomguy more of a dog person?

July 28, 2022 CJ Wheeler

5 comments

A happy-looking Cacodemon receives a lovely pat in Frendocaco, a Doom mod.

News

This Doom mod finally lets us make friends with the Cacodemons

Can you pet the Cacos? Yes.

July 19, 2022 Graham Smith

8 comments

Doom Guy as he appeared in the original art from Doom

News

John Romero’s making a mysterious new FPS in Unreal Engine 5

He’s about to make you his employee

July 19, 2022 CJ Wheeler

21 comments

Doom Guy as he appeared in the original art from Doom

News

Of course John Romero's autobiography is going to be called Doom Guy

Be careful it doesn't rip or tear

May 12, 2022 CJ Wheeler

5 comments

Classic Doom running its unofficial ray tracing mod.

News

Classic Doom gets ray tracing, but only for Nvidia GPUs

Rip and trace

April 4, 2022 James Archer

22 comments

Blasting demons in an Ultimate Doom screenshot.

News

Improve your doomscrolling with the bot tweeting through Doom

It'll take almost two years to tweet a playthrough

Jan. 26, 2022 Alice O'Connor

3 comments

Wot I Think: Pinball FX2 - Bethesda Pinball

Review

Wot I Think: Pinball FX2 - Bethesda Pinball

Flip and tear

Dec. 8, 2016 Adam Smith

16 comments

Wot I Think: DOOM Multiplayer

Review

Wot I Think: DOOM Multiplayer

It sure ain't Quake 3.5

May 19, 2016 Alec Meer

41 comments

Wot I Think: DOOM (Singleplayer)

Review

Wot I Think: DOOM (Singleplayer)

The best shooter of 2016, or I'll eat a Cacodemon's hat

May 16, 2016 Alec Meer

139 comments

Wot I & My 2 Year Old Think: DOOM Cacodemon Plush Toy

Review

Wot I & My 2 Year Old Think: DOOM Cacodemon Plush Toy

Cuddly hell on Earth

May 14, 2015 Alec Meer

70 comments

Doom Eternal guide: top 20 tips for demon slaying, how to kill Marauders

Guide

Doom Eternal guide: top 20 tips for demon slaying, how to kill Marauders

Beginners tips and tricks

April 30, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal weapons: how to master all the gun types

Guide

Doom Eternal weapons: how to master all the gun types

All weapon mod challenges

April 30, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal secrets: every secret location

Guide

Doom Eternal secrets: every secret location

Unlocking the Unmakyr

April 16, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal guide: top 20 tips for demon slaying, how to kill Marauders

Guide

Doom Eternal guide: top 20 tips for demon slaying, how to kill Marauders

Beginners tips and tricks

March 26, 2020 Dave Irwin

1 comment

Doom Eternal Mars Core collectables: all secrets in the seventh mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Mars Core collectables: all secrets in the seventh mission

How to complete the challenges in mission seven

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Arc Complex collectables: all secrets in the sixth mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Arc Complex collectables: all secrets in the sixth mission

How to complete the challenges in mission six

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Super Gore Nest collectables: all secrets in the fifth mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Super Gore Nest collectables: all secrets in the fifth mission

How to complete the challenges in mission five

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Final Sin and Fortress Of Doom collectables: how to get the final secrets

Guide

Doom Eternal Final Sin and Fortress Of Doom collectables: how to get the final secrets

Secret disk locations in the hub area

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Urdak collectables: all secrets in the twelfth mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Urdak collectables: all secrets in the twelfth mission

How to complete the twelfth mission's challenges

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Hell On Earth collectables: all secrets in the first mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Hell On Earth collectables: all secrets in the first mission

The Doomguy toy is adorable

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Sentinel Prime collectables: all secrets in the eighth mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Sentinel Prime collectables: all secrets in the eighth mission

No, really, this one is very simple

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Doom Hunter Base collectables: all secrets in the fourth mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Doom Hunter Base collectables: all secrets in the fourth mission

The hunter becomes the hunted

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Exultia collectables: all secrets in the second mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Exultia collectables: all secrets in the second mission

Where to find the secret encounters

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Cultist Base collectables: all secrets in the third mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Cultist Base collectables: all secrets in the third mission

Tips to complete the third mission's challenges

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Nekravol collectables: all secrets in the tenth mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Nekravol collectables: all secrets in the tenth mission

How to complete the tenth mission's challenges

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Nekravol Part II collectables: all secrets in the eleventh mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Nekravol Part II collectables: all secrets in the eleventh mission

How to complete the eleventh mission's challenges

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal Taras Nabad collectables: all secrets in the ninth mission

Guide

Doom Eternal Taras Nabad collectables: all secrets in the ninth mission

How to complete the ninth mission's challenges

March 24, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal upgrades: which perks to unlock first

Guide

Doom Eternal upgrades: which perks to unlock first

Tips for Praetor Suit, Runes, and Sentinel Crystals

March 19, 2020 Dave Irwin

Doom Eternal new release date, gameplay, trailer, multiplayer

Guide

Doom Eternal new release date, gameplay, trailer, multiplayer

Hell on earth

Oct. 10, 2019 Dave Irwin

The player fires a shotgun at two zombiemen in Doom (1993)

Feature

Doom At 30: The developers of your favourite boomer shooters share their favourite things about Doom

Devs from Ultrakill, Turbo Overkill, Prodeus and more weigh in on why the shotgun is cool

Dec. 15, 2023 Alice Bell

13 comments

A screenshot from Doom mod Siren, showing a strange interior made up of parallel glowing green lines, with a terminal dimly visible in the distance.

Feature

Doom At 30: Siren is a great intro to the hellish world of Doom total conversions

These aren't your granddaddy's Imps

Dec. 15, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

7 comments

A spacious living room in MyHouse.wad (there are demon corpses in the background)

Feature

Doom At 30: MyHouse.wad is an extraordinary mod that asks, "What if Doom was an ultra creepy horror game?"

MyHouseOfLeaves.wad

Dec. 15, 2023 Saleh Karaman

16 comments

The Doom Slayer from Doom Eternal

Feature

Doom At 30: The evolution of Doom through its first levels

What the opening level of every mainline Doom game says about its place in FPS history

Dec. 14, 2023 Katharine Castle

21 comments

The player punches a pinky in Doom (1993)

Feature

Doom At 30: Does 1993's Doom still hold up for a first-time player today?

Simple pleasures

Dec. 14, 2023 Kiera Mills

28 comments

Blasting demons in an Ultimate Doom screenshot.

Feature

What's better: Doom's shotgun or Doom 2's super shotgun?

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games

Dec. 13, 2023 Alice O'Connor

68 comments

A selection of various panels from the 1996 DOOM comic book, along with the cover, as illustrated by Tom Grindberg.

Feature

Doom At 30: The 1996 Doom comic book is an over-the-top masterwork

"I'M A 12.0 ON THE 10.0 SCALE OF BADNESS!"

Dec. 13, 2023 Jeremy Blum

24 comments

Pixel art of five Doom enemies

Feature

Doom At 30: All classic enemies ranked by how much fun they'd be at a 30th birthday party

Just don't ask them to play Pass The Parcel, they'd rip and tear that thing to shreds

Dec. 12, 2023 Katharine Castle

14 comments

A screenshot from the beginning of DOOM, showing Doomguy looking at the corpse of a dead marine - a rough approximation of how I felt after 10 minutes of playing the game.

Feature

Doom At 30: An ode to Doom, the first game to give me motion sickness

30 years of waiting for FOV options

Dec. 11, 2023 Jeremy Blum

42 comments

The title screen of Doom from 1993

Feature

Doom At 30: John Romero remembers his seminal FPS so that we don't remember it wrong

The original id Software designer talks Carmack, cacodemons, and his Native American influence

Dec. 10, 2023 Jeremy Peel

32 comments

The 10 best hells in PC games

Feature

The 10 best hells in PC games

One Off The List

March 20, 2020 Brendan Caldwell

46 comments

Have You Played... Doom (2016)?

Feature

Have You Played... Doom (2016)?

I'm not your Doom, guy.

Dec. 16, 2019 Dave Irwin

38 comments

The greatest PC games of the 2010s

Feature

The greatest PC games of the 2010s

The definitive and objective list

Dec. 6, 2019 RPS

307 comments

The Rock Paper Shotgun logo repeated multiple times on a purple background

Feature

The best Doom mods of 2019

Classic Doom really is Eternal

Nov. 25, 2019 Dominic Tarason

17 comments

Every Google Stadia game announced so far

Feature

Every Google Stadia game announced so far

Every Stadia game coming at launch and beyond

Aug. 19, 2019 Katharine Castle

17 comments

Steam Charts: Summery Summary Edition

Feature

Steam Charts: Summery Summary Edition

That feeling when you realise you left the light at home.

July 29, 2019 John Walker

61 comments

The Rock Paper Shotgun logo repeated multiple times on a purple background

Feature

Modder Superior: The many free descendants of Doom

Doom mods: The Next Generation

April 1, 2019 Dominic Tarason

20 comments

CES 2019: Doom feels like a new game with Razer’s HyperSense haptic feedback tech

Feature

CES 2019: Doom feels like a new game with Razer’s HyperSense haptic feedback tech

You'll never look at the Super Shotgun the same way again

Jan. 11, 2019 Katharine Castle

12 comments

Cybershoes' err… Cybershoes let me run around in Doom VFR from the comfort of a wheelie chair

Feature

Cybershoes' err… Cybershoes let me run around in Doom VFR from the comfort of a wheelie chair

Shoeing the VR goose?

Sept. 7, 2018 Katharine Castle

17 comments

Warriors face a giant monster in Monster Hunter: World

Feature

Steam Charts: Entirely Original Edition

Monstrous

Aug. 13, 2018 John Walker

38 comments

I played that ancient game everyone always talks about

Feature

Supporters only | I played that ancient game everyone always talks about

It's 2 years older than me, for christ's sake

May 31, 2018 Matt Cox

8 comments

These are the top 100 Steam games of 2017

Feature

These are the top 100 Steam games of 2017

The biggest hits of the past 12 months

Jan. 2, 2018 Alec Meer

27 comments

Bethesda's Hines on VR: "It’s something all of our studios are looking at and talking about"

Feature

Bethesda's Hines on VR: "It’s something all of our studios are looking at and talking about"

Plus: brief impressions of Doom VFR

Sept. 29, 2017 Alec Meer

44 comments

Humble adds some of Bethesda's best to the End of Summer Sale

Feature

Humble adds some of Bethesda's best to the End of Summer Sale

Bethesdeals

Sept. 18, 2017 Jamie Wallace

8 comments

Steam Charts: Sugar free

Feature

Steam Charts: Sugar free

Full fat

July 31, 2017 John Walker

33 comments

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