Collaborate Disseminate
Game developer Sam Chiet has found another use for Microsoft Notepad. The ingenious creator has gotten Doom (1993) to run at 60 FPS through the boring text editor in Windows. Tom’s Hardware reports: Chiet highlighted that he didn’t have to modify the N… Continue reading Doom Runs At 60 FPS In Notepad
“Yes, it’s possible to get the game Doom running atop this system firmware,” reports Phoronix.
Tom’s Hardware explains:
Originally known as LinuxBIOS, which provides a better clue to its utility value, Coreboot 4.17 supports new motherboards, deliver… Continue reading ‘Doom’ Game Ported To Run As a Coreboot BIOS Payload
Multiplayer games assign your opponents using “skill-based matchmaking,” reports the Washington Post, “to fairly balance teams and maximize the enjoyment players get…”
But not everyone wants that. For example, the Post notes, “streamers want to put… Continue reading Algorithms in Videogames Criticized for Choosing Fairly-Matched Opponents
There was a time when virtual reality seemed like it would remain in the realm of science fiction at least for the foreseeable future. Then we were blessed with products …read more Continue reading Haptic Feedback “Rifle” Lets You Take Aim in VR
“For Halo fans who only care about multiplayer, ‘Halo Infinite’ is a free-to-play game,” writes the Washington Post. “But improbably, it’s messing up the free-to-play part.”
[I]ts progression system has been widely criticized for being too slow. You … Continue reading ‘Halo Infinite’: Fun to Play, But Newer Gamers Complain Its Rewards System Is Slow
Amazon employee Dustin Mitchell is also a metal guitarist in Texas who decided to name his band “Doomscroll,” reports Kotaku — and in February Mitchell tried trademarking Doomscroll with America’s Patent and Trademark Office.
But then on Octobe… Continue reading Id Software Tries To Stop A Man From Naming His Band ‘Doomscroll’
“Why not play Doom using Twitter via short commands and videos?” Kotaku asks bored internet users.
“Tweet2Doom is a new Twitter bot that started up in September of this year and which lets folks play through the original game using a series of comman… Continue reading You Can Now Play ‘Doom’ Via Twitter
“The recently released Far Cry 6 video game from Ubisoft has drawn the ire of the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA),” reports ComicBook.com:
While PETA has been known to issue statements on the handling of an… Continue reading PETA Criticizes ‘Far Cry 6’ On Its Choice of Animal-Themed Minigame
“A newly-enhanced edition of the original Quake has been officially revealed by Bethesda at QuakeCon 2021,” reports GamesRadar+
The updated edition of the classic 1996 first-person shooter is out right now on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One… Continue reading Microsoft-Owned Bethesda Releases New ‘Enhanced’ Version of Quake 1
Valve expects that its recently announced Steam Deck portable gaming console will be able to run “really the entire Steam library” on its 1280×800 LCD screen at frame rates of 30 fps or higher. Ars Technica reports: That’s according to a recent IGN vid… Continue reading Valve Promises Steam Deck Will Run ‘The Entire Steam Library’ At 30+ FPS