Collection of Doom 20th news

Hi all.

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to gather news about Doom's 20th birthday in one spot? Personally, I would appreciate it because I don't frequent gaming news sites that often, but I would love to read articles celebrating the event (given that they even bother to write about it).

So, if you think it's a good idea and have stumpled across an article that might be of interest to the rest of us, then please link here in this thread.


List of articles submitted in this thread

1. Doom is 20 Years Old Today - The Huffington Post UK
   
2. Doom: 20 Years of a Gaming Legend - TechRadar
   
3. Twenty Years of Ultra-Violence - MetaFilter
   
4. Doom Was Launched 20 Years Ago - NetMassimo
   
5. Q&A: Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem - Wired
   
6. Doom's Legacy: 20 Years of Brutal FPS Action - Stuff UK
   
7. Celebrating 20 Years, Doom's Legacy is Its Human Connection - Polygon
   
8. Happy 20th Birthday, Doom! id Software's Legendary Shooter Was Released Twenty Years Ago Today - Kotaku
   
9. 20 Years of Doom: The Most Influential Shooter Ever - Paste Magazine
   
10. Doom at 20: John Carmack's Hellspawn Changed Gaming Forever - The Verge
    
11. The Meaning of Doom - The Economist
    
12. Doom Turns 20, Original id Software Developer American McGee Talks Legacy, Kickstarter, and "Quake" on the Venerated Shooter's 20th Anniversary - Complex Gaming
    
13. 20 Years Later: A Look Back at My Doom Love Affair - PC Magazine
    
14. Doom 20th Anniversary Today — A True Classic - IncGamers
    
15. Doom, the Original and Best First-Person Shooter, is 20 Years Old Today - ExtremeTech
    
16. We Play Doom With John Romero - IGN
    
17. Memories of Doom, by John Romero & John Carmack - Kotaku
    
18. Happy 20th, Doom! - Bethesda Softworks
    
19. Happy 20th Birthday Doom! Why Doom is the Seed of All Modern Games - GamesRadar
    
20. Doom Retrospective: 20 Years of the Game That Didn't Just Change Gaming Forever — It Changed Gamers - Eurogamer
    
21. Toast to the Monsters: 20 Years of Doom - Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    
22. Classic Computer Game "Doom" Made in Mesquite, is 20 Years Old Today - The Dallas Morning News
    
23. Ars Editors Remember Their First Taste of Doom, 20 Years Later: Looking Back on Two Decades of Fragging, from Computer Lab LANs to the TI-85 - Ars Technica
    
24. Why Doom Still Holds Up After 20 Years - Time Tech
    
25. Knee Deep in History: 20 Years of Doom - NBC News
    
26. 20 Years Later, Doom Still Looms Large Over the Games Industry - PC & Tech Authority
    
27. Doom Celebrates 20 Years of Gaming - Co-Optimus
    
28. Happy 20th, Doom - UPROXX
    
29. John Carmack Reminisces on 20 Years of Doom and What Happened With Doom 4 - Warp Zoned
    
30. Happy Birthday to Doom, Happy Birthday to Doom: 20 Years Young! - Eurogamer
    
31. Remembering Doom: 20 Years Later - PCGamesN
    
32. Doom Reaches 20th Anniversary, Celebrations Across the Web - PlayStation Universe
    
33. id Software's Doom Turns 20 Years Old - GameNGuide
    
34. Creators of Doom Reflect on 20th Anniversary - The Vine
    
35. A Look Back at Doom: Celebrating 20 Years of Gore and Mayhem - VR-Zone
    
36. Groundbreaking First-Person Shooter "Doom" is 20 Today: IDDQD - Gameplanet
    
37. Doom is 20 Years Old Today: Happy Birthday to the Granddaddy of All FPSes - play.tm
    
38. Doom Turns 20 Today: Let's Remember the Good Times - games.on.net
    
39. Doom Celebrates Its 20th Birthday! - TV3
    
40. Groundbreaking First-Person Shooter Game "Doom" Turns 20 - TeleManagement
    
41. Classic Doom 20th Birthday - ESReality
    
42. After 20 Years, Doom Co-Creator John Romero Looks Back on the Impact of a Seminal (and Satanic) Game - VentureBeat
    
43. How Doom Inspired the First-Person-Shooter Game 20 Years Ago - Tom's Guide
    
44. Doom 20th Birthday Video Perfectly Captures the '90s Slaughterfest - Mashable
    
45. The Meaning of Doom - Malaysian Digest
    
46. Doom Turns 20: We Take a Look at the Game's History - International Business Times
    
47. Doom is 20 Years Old Already! Here, Have a Dancing Cyberdemon - GMA News
    
48. Doom: Venti Anni di Incubi - FantasyMagazine
    
49. Happy 20th Anniversary, Doom: This Was the Game That Cemented My Love for FPS Titles - Destructoid
    
50. USgamer Celebrates 20 Years of Doom - USgamer
    
51. Happy 20th Birthday, Doom! - Yahoo!
    
52. Doom Turns 20 - Game Informer
    
53. Doom Turns 20 Today: Watch How it Was Made - VirtualReality.ca
    
54. Happy Birthday to Doom! - Gaming Nexus
    
55. Ww Are Doomed — An Art Tribute to 20 Years of Doom - Game Art HQ
    
56. Doom: Celebrating 20 Years of BFG - Structure Gaming
    
57. Doom 20th Anniversary Livestream Replay: We Remember Doom in the Most Fitting Way Possible, By Blasting Demons to Hell and Back - Gamereactor

Good idea. There is no news yet, but I assume (hope?) that they will pop-up once the day starts in the U.S. (it's 10 a.m. here in Poland as I'm writing this).

I won't lie I expect the following sites to write something:

idsoftware.com
gamespot.com
ign.com
store.steampowered.com
esreality.com
pcgamer.com

Doomworld.com (:D :D :D)

A google doodle discussed in another thread wouldn't hurt either ;)

If any of you stumble upon articles on these sites, please post links here as I might miss them.

EDIT:

Doom also has its official page on Facebook, but they haven't written anything yet.

Thanks for the input! And yeah, I agree on the time thing. I'm located in Denmark, so we're in the same timezone. I just thought that it couldn't hurt to be a bit early :)

Here's one posted less than 15 minutes ago...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10499993/20-years-of-Doom-the-game-that-put-a-gun-in-your-hand.html

Doom turned 20 over 17 hours ago my local time. :)

That was a surprisingly solid article. Lots of trivia I thought were known only to people really into the game, so either the editor (Sam Rowe) did his research or he is a long-time Doom fan. Definitely a good read and how I would like each site to give credit to the game.

Source Ports news :
- Chocolate Doom v2.0.0 is out today
- Doom Retro v1.0, a new port, was also published today

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/10/doom-is-20-years-old_n_4417099.html

soner du said:

Source Ports news :
- Chocolate Doom v2.0.0 is out today
- Doom Retro v1.0, a new port, was also published today

Nice bit of news there! Not quite what I was thinking about, but thanks anyway :) Perhaps a mod will find this interesting news for the frontpage or something.

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/doom-20-years-of-influencing-gaming-1205980

http://www.metafilter.com/134597/Twenty-Years-of-Ultra-Violence

Another one:

http://english.netmassimo.com/2013/12/10/doom-was-launched-20-years-ago/

savagegrant said:

http://www.metafilter.com/134597/Twenty-Years-of-Ultra-Violence

Linking to wikia instead of the proper wiki. :(

Other than that, though, good article.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/12/john-carmack-doom/

You're on a roll, savagegrant! Much appreciated :)

No worries. :)

http://www.stuff.tv/happy-birthday-doom/feature

savagegrant said:

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/12/john-carmack-doom/

This one is a bloody good read imho! Carmack is such a cool guy.

Yeah, the interview with Carmack is awesome! He actually appreciates the Call of Duty series for making the genre popular again. That's class!

Hehe, yeah that one caught my eye too.

Also: "I think at one point, I said it was fun offending the easily offended. Poking at the fundamentalists was at least a sub-current of picking the demons, and the pentagrams, and the goat’s heads and all the things in there."

Too bad the CoD series is pure trash though, the only game in that series I even remotely enjoyed was Finest Hour on my GameCube.

This one caught my eye:

"Sometime, years from now, all of the gory details of everything from the last year and a half or so will come out, but now is not the time to be talking about all of it."

http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/10/5192960/celebrating-20-years-dooms-legacy-is-its-human-connection

Finally this day has dawned upon us! Happy birthday, DOOM!

http://kotaku.com/happy-20th-birthday-doom-id-softwares-legendary-shoot-1480257941

Kotaku did a thing.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/12/20-years-of-doom.html

"That’s something I can’t really go into much in detail. It’s been hard—one of the things that was a little bit surprising that you might not think so from the outside, but deciding exactly what the essence of Doom is, with this 20-year history, is a heck of a lot harder than you might think. You get multiple Doom fans that have different views of what the core essence of it is, and there’s been a design challenge through all of it."

The fact that they realize this is a very good thing.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5195508/doom-20th-anniversary-retrospective

From the facebbok page of the Italian youtuber Levelmonkey: https://www.facebook.com/levelmonkey?fref=ts First post leads to a link where you can play a flash version of doom.

The Poll of the Day on GameFAQs asks people if they've ever played Doom 20 years since its release.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5352

PERHAPS a coincidence, but.... "Doom 3 BFG" disappeared from the Steam store. Do you think they're up to something? An update perhaps? Oh the wishful thinking...

Magnetick said:

http://kotaku.com/happy-20th-birthday-doom-id-softwares-legendary-shoot-1480257941

Kotaku did a thing.

Damn, I really dig that art. They'd all make great titlepics for one!

Patrol1985 said:

PERHAPS a coincidence, but.... "Doom 3 BFG" disappeared from the Steam store. Do you think they're up to something? An update perhaps? Oh the wishful thinking...

Yah, i noticed this too. Maybe low sales, or maybe an update. Granted, Wolf2k9 has been missing for some time now too, though a defunct link to the trailer still exists.