Category Archives: fps

“It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem,” reports Kotaku:

Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access… Continue reading Warner Bros. Issues DMCA’s After ‘Suicide Squad’ Game Cracked to Allow Playing as Unreleased Characters→

Landscaping tech company Husqvarna has partnered with Bethesda to bring the original 1993 Doom to its $2,000+ robotic lawnmowers. Kotaku reports: This new way to play Doom arrives in April on all Nera robotic lawnmower models. You don’t have to pay for… Continue reading Doom Is Now Playable On a Lawnmower→

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Doom, both John Romero and John Carmack are appearing now on a special 30th anniversary stream on Twitch. (Right now they’re talking about people who got into professional networking careers because of what they’d l… Continue reading John Romero Releases New Doom Episode ‘Sigil 2’, Appears With John Carmack on Twitch→

30 years ago today, Doom “invented the modern PC games industry, as a place dominated by technologically advanced action shooters,” remembers the Guardian:

In late August 1993, a young programmer named Dave Taylor walked into an office block… The ca… Continue reading ‘Doom’ at 30: What It Means, By the People Who Made It→

SharewareHeroes.com recreates all the fonts and cursor you’d see after dialing up a local bulletin-board system in the early 1990s. It’s to promote a new book — successfully crowdfunded by 970 backers — to chronicle “a critical yet long ove… Continue reading The Rise of DOOM Chronicled on Retro Site for ‘Shareware Heroes’ Book→

Hackaday recently shared some thoughts on “purpose-built” distros:

Some examples are Kali for security testing, DragonOS for software-defined radio, or Hannah Montana Linux for certain music fans.

Anyone can roll their own Linux distribution with th… Continue reading DoomLinux: the Distro That Loads Only Enough Software to Play DOOM→

“Never before have I seen live service game development summarized so well,” quips GamesRadar, summarizing an official tweet Thursday about the game Tom Clancy’s The Division 2.

The developers basically had tweeted that The Division 2 “cannot be upda… Continue reading Developers Couldn’t Update ‘The Division 2’ Because a Delayed Update Broke Their Updater→

It was 29 years ago today that DOOM was first released — and we’re still using it! Here in 2022, the latest mod reportedly converts its demons into the zombies and creepers from Minecraft. This week Hackaday wrote about a simple emulated RISC-V p… Continue reading It’s DOOM’s 29th Anniversary. What’s Your Favorite Story?→

You can read the news in Military Times magazine. “Coming just after the 25th anniversary of the release of the cult classic Starship Troopers (November 1997), Offworld Industries and Sony Pictures Consumer Projects are bringing the fight against the A… Continue reading Trailers Released for 2023 First-Person Shooter ‘Starship Troopers: Extermination’→