In 2005, Erik Alm was 24 and living in Stockholm, Sweden, after dropping out of the prestigious KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden because he had been playing too much Doom and Diablo II. He ...

Doom mapping is a massive, still pumping engine of productivity. Despite the mechanics behind the original and its sequel being over 22 years old and even getting it to run these days requiring more ...

Winter is my favourite season for nerdery for three reasons. The sales are the obvious one; Stocking up on enough games to last another year (and probably only completing a third of them). The second ...

Valiant is a 32-map “megaWAD”—a term used for full campaigns, named after the file extension used by Doom maps. As much as the base game, it is a triumph of level, monster and weapon design. Paul, not ...

It’s 2016 and Doom is still one of the best first person shooters around, even compared to all the big budget games that will release this holiday season. First released in 1993, id’s cultural ...

John Romero is virtually synonymous with Doom as one of its key developers, but he never made a map for it after 1995. Quake, and eventually his other studios, took over after that. However, he's ...

Rich Whitehouse created a project he's amazingly titled DOOMBA. After a cursory look at the Roomba code and finding that the vacuuming robots used simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) applications ...

DOOM players that are also looking forward to getting their hands on the new DOOM map editor that will be available when the new game launches later this month, are sure to enjoy this demo trailer ...

Your Roomba can help clean up your enemies. Credit: Bildquelle/ullstein bild via Getty Images Once your Roomba is done tidying the house, you can clean up your enemies in hell. Game programmer and ...

In brief: Games with a DIY slant have been big business as of late and technically, Doomba is an extension of that concept. It's probably not something you'll spend a wealth of time tinkering with but ...