Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Introducing a new weekly event focused on the game modes Last Man Standing and Team Last Man Standing, we'll be featuring a wide variety of wads and settings every Thursday at 8pm EST. This week we'll be playing a great "SkullTag classic" LMS wad, ffi_z. Hope to see you there.

WADs: ffi_z + eonweapons_b3
Maps: 10 (1-10)
Time: 5 mins
Wins Required: 2 (per map)
Players: 14
Date: Thursday, December 11th, 2014
Time: 8:00 pm EST
Locations: BE

For all news and updates on Zandronum Thursday Night Last Man Standing, visit our official forum.

Strife was always the black sheep of the Doom-engine game family. Released a mere month before Quake took us into the third dimension, Strife moved away from mindless run-and-gun action and layered on top a detailed plot with fully-voiced character dialogue, an inventory system, multiple endings, and more. Some have called it a predecessor of more well known FPS-RPG hybrids like Deus Ex. Unfortunately Strife was a commercial failure, and its developer and publisher subsequently went out of business, leaving it adrift on the abandonware tides forever...

...or at least until today, when a Steam listing for Strife has popped up. The game is being resurrected by Night Dive Studios, well-known for acquiring long-dead games and breathing new life into them. Labeled The Original Strife: Veteran Edition, this new version will bring the game out of the DOS era and onto Windows, Mac, and SteamOS with high-resolution support, an OpenGL renderer with dynamic lighting and bloom(!), an all-new "Capture the Chalice” multiplayer mode(!!), and even Steam Achievements and Trading Cards(!!!). The Original Strife: Veteran Edition is due out December 12.

Put down your pitchforks ladies and gentlemen, the Annual Cacowards are going ahead as planned! In celebration of Doom's 21st anniversary, our in-house team of writers and procrastinators have once again cobbled together a list of this year's finest projects and people, with questionable write-ups for each and every one of them. (more)