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July 2004
Doom 3 Mod Gets Foxed
Phoebus spotted on Blues News a one page article that is an open letter to the System Shock 2 Rebooted Community which announced the Foxing of thier DOOM 3 mod. The project was to be based on the System Shock games but now they've decided to go anouther route for obvious reasons.
Chris Vrenna Interview On Doom 3 Music
ign.com has a new article uploaded concerning Doom 3's music so they talk with composer/musician Chris Vrenna about creating the theme song and ambient texturing in the game. Hit that Chris Vrenna interview!
Final Doom 3 Trailer Released
Shack News says the Final Doom 3 trailer has been released and it shows two and a half minutes of in-game cinematic and action packed gameplay footage. Quicktime is required to run the 40mb downgrabbable file. You can get that trailer on this page. You'll have to sign up to get it off of Fileshack or try this link to gamershell. Also you can try gamers-depot who have a good linkage.
Win2k And Win XP For Doom 3
There was a little article on VooDoo Extreme saying that the PC version of Doom 3 will only run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Anybody running the older Win98 or Win98 SE Op-System will be out of the game so to speak. Thanks to The Undertaker for sending in the news.
Tormentor Updates Realm 667
Tormentor667 sayeth: Ok, the latest piece of work from me is finally released. It is some kind of lost episode because it looks like TNT (brown), it plays like TNT(hard) and it is from me :) but this time not related to the story of the trilogy. Just read the TXT file and you know what I mean. Here are some screenshots Tormentor667 sent links to: screenshot, screenshot, screenshot and screenshot. For even more Screenshots and information go to Realm 667. You can get the file in the Maps & Mods section and the Torment'N'Torture sub-section or just go here.
New Atmosphere Screenshots
Jetflock sent in the news that he's put up some new screenshots on the Atmosphere home page and he says that he's put a lot of work into the wad. Get over on his site right here for the new stuff.
Doom 3 At G-Phoria
Activision wants everybody to know that id Software confirmed today that they are bringing DOOM 3 PC and the DOOM 3 pod to G-Phoria – the Award Show for Gamers this Saturday at the Shrine Expo Center in LA. G-Phoria guests will get the chance to play a preview portion of DOOM 3 single player on the PC, ahead of next week’s release. G-Phoria premieres on G4TechTV on Aug 6. Here's the linkage to the G-Phoria site.
Doom 3 Hardware Guide
[Hard]|OCP posted up a new Doom 3 Hardware Guide. It seems that [Hard]|OCP and id Software teamed up to bring forth a real-world DOOM 3 hardware guide that they say will help us Doom 3 gamers understand and maximize the DOOM 3 experience. Now we wait for the software to come out...
The Ultimate Chex Quest Phase II Beta 2 Released!
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Category: DOOM Conversions |
Boingo dropped me a message to let all you Doomers know that The Ultimate Chex Quest Phase II Beta 2 has been released! Boingo says that there is a bunch of new changes in T.U.C.Q., although they are not as extensive as in the last beta. For the latest version head on over to the Ultimate Chex Quest site.
ATI Fights Back
Megagames is saying that ATI is fighting back with the whole Doom 3 performance thingie. This comes about after nvidia cards were tagged as being better for running Doom 3. In response to an enquiry by Team Radeon, ATIs Chris Hook has suggested that since the game has not been officially released yet, we shouldn't rush to any conclusions and quickly manages to get an innuendo in, regarding nVidia's use of partial precision. He goes on to add We expect to have updated drivers available in the coming weeks. Mr. Hook clearly expects the introduction of the new drivers to play an important part in performance upgrade, although he does not mention exactly how that improvement will come about. Check out the full article right here.
Creative Pulls Patent Ploy on id Software
Bloodbob dropped an email message in our inbox here at Newdoom to let us know that Creative pulled some kinda patent ploy on id software and they ended up making a deal for the shadow technology used in DOOM 3.The patent situation well and truly sucks.
We were prepared to use a two-pass algorithm that gave equivalent results at a speed hit, but we negotiated the deal with Creative so that we were able to use the zfail method without having to actually pay any cash. It was tempting to take a stand and say that our products were never going to use any advanced Creative/3dlabs products because of their position on patenting gaming software algorithms, but that would only have hurt the users. Read the post on the Beyond3D forums here and read thier news item on the subject right here.
Two New Screenshots Of Doom 3
There is a set of two new Doom 3 screentacular screenshots on Gamespot all of which can be viewed right here! Check out that...*drools*.... Also noted from other source these are Xboxy shots.
GeForce 6800's Best For Doom 3
Yahoo spotted up an article saying that the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce 6800 GT Chips Proclaimed Best for Doom 3.All that considered, for those of you that are in the high end video card market, the GeForce 6800 GT looks to very much be the sweet spot when it comes to playing Doom 3 with all the eye candy turned on at high resolutions. Obviously the 6800 Ultra is even faster for those of you that need the best no matter the cost. Well get your wallets out and start forking over the big bucks for one of those 6800's... yeah!
Robert Duffy Updated His .plan
Robert A. Duffy updated his webdog .plan with more information about Doom 3 which is mostly hardware type of talk including technical stuff about video cards and whatnot. Just go read the webdog .plan and you'll see for yourself what it's all about.
Doom Builder 1.63 & Dr Sleep Updates Guide
Dr.Sleep dropped a line to let me know that CodeImp has released Doom Builder 1.63 which includes a new feature called "gradient" that allows for a smooth scaling of light levels, and floor and ceiling heights for stairs (or consecutive sectors). So hit the Doom Builder site and get into the Doom editing craze. Also there's a new version of Dr Sleep's editing manual that he created for Doom Builder. Get the Illustrated Guide at this direct linkage thanks to Dr Sleep's DOOM Apothecary.
RTC-3057 Interview and Hub1 To Be Released
Manc reported that Team Future announced that Hub 1 of RTC-3057, entitled RTC-3057: Blue is finished and will be released on Wednesday (Tuesday evening in the states). mancubus.net geared up an interview with lead designer and head of Team Future, Shaviro. Here is the interview and the linkage to the RTC-3057 Site.
Creative & Other Doom 3 Engine Games
In a newsletter I spotted some Doom 3 related news. Creative Technology Ltd has entered into a deal with id Software that will see Creative develop EAX Advanced HD 3D audio options for future licensees of the DOOM 3 engine. The enhanced game engine is expected to be ready for licensing by the end of the 2004 calendar year. Hock Leow, Creative’s CTO, stated, "We look forward to the challenge of implementing EAX Advanced HD Multi-Environment technology within the DOOM 3 engine, and subsequently working with id to make these enhancements available to their licensees.” Hopefully we'll get to see some of these other Doom 3 engine games sometime soon.
Kaiser Is On A Roll & Keeps On Rolling Doom Style
Just got word from Kaiser that he's doing a lot of stuff and we can expect to see an update on his site soon with some nifty java-scripting stuffage. So instead of me typing out the tidbits of what Kaiser had to say in email about his various endeavors lets now do a quote: Anyways, wanted to mention that I am still not dead yet (nor my projects :P) but one thing for certain, that SvStrife will be completed, in fact, its just about done along with Shareware support. Expect a non-beta release in a week or two.
Doom64 Outcast is still kicking as well, but its progress is VERY slow (due to -0- intrest). Although Outcast is now availible to testers, so if anybody want a sneak peak, then email me at right here.
Also, a small project is in the works as well (YES, I don't have a life). This project is a gathering of all dsv megawads in one wad for Zdoom (cleverly titled ZDSV) so you're looking at 96+ maps of Dooming goodness. So there you have it, the proverbial Doom Community Beaver is at it again. Now we wait for him to actually finish this stuff. Meanwhile visit DSV Outworld and get some Kaiser made Doom stuff....
History Of Doom 3 Movie
Aliotroph? dropped me a message jobby that Slashdot posted up the news about a History Of Doom 3 Movie which is a history of the DOOM franchise in the words of the folks at id Software and you can expect to see bits of Doom 3, interview footage and assorted coolness. Check it out! By the way, I'm not gonna watch it myself due to a dislike of seeing even more spoilers...
Anouther Doom 3 Interview
Dirty_Fly let me know that I missed one of those cool id software interviews that happened in the last few days. This one is on ign.com and you can read that right here.IGNPC: Are you guys happy with the final project?
Tim: Oh yeah, we're thrilled! To be truly honest, DOOM is even better than we thought it was going to be when we first started. We have twenty super talented highly motivated people that put everything they could into this title. We're very proud of this child that we're sending off into the world. I want id's baby. ;)
Zombie Shot On Mars
It said screens on the site but theres only one screenie but its a big one. I think one of those articles had the same shot. heh. If you missed it, here it is. It's a shot from the XboX version by the way and should make somebody a nice wallpaper.. Now we all know Doom 3 is going to be worthplaying.
Doom 3 On Fortune
Fortune has an article on Doom 3, id software and competition in the games industry. Read that full one page article right here.
Doom 3 Interview On Gamespot
gamespot.com also posted up a nice interview with id software. Clippage time! I can't really comment on what everybody else is doing. I can comment for id. We don't think the next game is going to take four years. Doom 3 technology is a brand-new paradigm in terms of the way the world reacts and is created, how art is created, how many textures have to be used, and how that stuff works. When you're working with technology that's not fully fleshed-out, the learning curve is very, very steep. Steep unlike any game that has ever been created. However, now that we've climbed that, we'll definitely benefit from having that experience for our next project. Go ahead and read the full 3 page interview!
Gamespy's Doom 3 Interview
Well it was pointed out to me that gamespy.com has posted up a nice interview with id that's titled: id Software talks DOOM 3 and beyond (PC). Here is a quote from the interview: GameSpy: Do you have any idea what the demo will contain?
Tim Willits: Yes, but until we figure out exactly what we want to show, I would hate to say something and then be wrong, and have people expect something and then not have it delivered. It'll be cool, and we're confident that the demo will give people a good sense of what DOOM 3 is. We just have to figure out the best way to do that. They talk about the demo, multiplayer, XBox version, some stuff about Raven doing Quake 4 and other coolness. Hit It!
Various Doom 3 News
Man am I ever tired of messing around with my new computer. After a long battle with swapping out power supplys and video cards and.... it ended up I had a bad stick of RAM. :( I also ended up missing a number of interesting Doom III news items. Unfortunately if my comp is down, I don't get to get the jump on any news items. So anyhow I'm gonna conglomerate some stuff here for anybody who may have missed these DooM III jobbys.
HomeLan Fed has a Doom Board Game Interview. Fileshack has a Doom 3 G4 Movie. Also on Shack News is the info about the DooM 3 System Requirements. Here are the basic requirements to run Doom 3.
- A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500.
- 384 megabytes of memory.
- Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
- An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.
So there you have some of the stuff I missed. heh.
DWS Seeks Tutorial Authors
Sematary is looking for the Masters Of Doom... If you happen to know a lot about a particular area of Doom and are willing to write a tutorial on ZDoom editing or whatever then hit the Doom Wad Station and see what's up.
Flaying Torment At Recess
Chris Hansen went and updated his homepage with a new review of Torment & Torture 3 and some important info on his latest creation, which just happens to be one of those cool Flay maps... Hit The Doomers Recess!
jDoom Zero Tolerance Page Moves
sLydE sayeth: I have moved the jDoom Zero Tolerance TC webpage to a personal
webserver, after a 5 month gap in updates. I haven't had time to make any updates to the TC, but I did get a job, and I will have a bit of time to take care of what I still have to do. Expect to see a demo by the end of August/beginning of September. If there are any questions, feel free to email me. So there you have it. Stroz!
Gamestop's Doom III Free Shipping Deal For Americans
Jason Erb dropped us a note to let all you US Doomers know that Gamestop is extending a Free Overnight shipping offer for Doom III. So if your interested in getting a copy of DooM III online then Gamestop is an option. Here are the steps you have to take for the deal: Step 1. Add Doom 3 to your cart.
Step 2. Enter OVRDOOM3 where prompted in the cart and click Activate
Step 3. Check out as normal, your discount will be applied! By the way OVRDOOM3 is the coupon code. Next bit of info is the Terms and Conditions: Only one offer per order. Offer only valid in continental United States. Coupon expires August 2nd, 2004. To receive the game on August 4th you must place your order no later then August 2nd. Ok US Doomers go order that copy of Doom 3. Oh yeah, also check out thier DOOM 3 Server Sweepstakes...
Doom3.com Is Spiffed Up Doom 3 Style
Okay so a number of people pointed out to me that doom3.com has gone live and features some new content and is all Flash oriented and stuff. Only reason I didn't post about this before is I spent my entire weekend taking a bunch of new comp parts the UPS guy dropped off, plus a few olde parts off my olde machine and I welded things together to make a new comp that just happens to be capable of running DooM 3. I was due for a new comp anyways... honest! Just check out doom3.com and get psyched for Doom III SP Glory!
Pablo Dictter Updated His Doomed Flash Site
Pablo Dictter sent in the news that he updated his site with: updated the site with info for all maps on the site, news about another new heretic level (screenshots over at the wads in progress page) and some other stuff. That's what he said! Get over to A Circle and be sure to have Flash installed!
New Content On Unidoom
Ralph Vickers sent in the news that he went and finished all Unidoom.org content, including some new screenies in the UDM3 section. Getcha self over to Unidoom and here is the direct linkage to the Udm3 section where the new screentacular shots are located.
Dual DooM III News Posts In One
Time has a one page preview article pasted up titled A First Look at Doom 3: Doom 3 runs on all-new technology, and let's not mince words: there has never been a game that looks this good. Go read that preview article. Since I just found this other jobby I'll post it up alongside that preview. Gamespy has the lowdown on DOOM 3 multiplayer networking info. Here's a clippage: GameSpy: Can you clarify what kind of multiplayer networking architecture DOOM 3 will use? Will it be peer-to-peer or traditional client-server (or something altogether different)?
Robert Duffy: It is Client-Server. Ok that article is the multiplayer one. Nite!
Doom 3 Uncensored In Germany
Noticed on Fragland that they reported that Doom III will be freely available in Germany. Normally the violent games that do get released in Germany are pre-censored by the developers changing blood color to green and changing human enemies with robotic ones. Doom III will be the first id software title that will be available in Germany since Commander Keen. Does this mean that Doom III isn't as gory as Quake II or the original Doom?? Whatever the reason, it's good news to the German Doomers. Here is that article blurb.
Project: Neurotica Site Goes Live!
sirbardcat dropped an email into my email jobby with the info that he created a site with news and information on his Doom Legacy project that is titled Neurotica. So now would be a good time to go forth and view the Project: Neurotica site in all it's glory...
More Doom 3 Info From Todd Hollenshead
Todd Hollenshead updated his webdog .plan again with more info about Doom 3. Mac and Linux users will have to wait awhile yet before they can get those versions of the game. Also id software is now working on getting a Demo put together that will be based on the full game. Go read Todd Hollenshead's .plan update for the rest of the info.
DooM 3 Has Gone Gold! Todd Hollenshead Says It's Done!!
Todd Hollenshead, CEO for id software announced in his webdog .plan DOOM 3 has GONE GOLD! It's DONE!!!! It's DONE! Yes, this is the official word that DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! It won't be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made. Check out Todd Hollenshead's .plan update! Official release date is Aug 5th in the US. Todd says that Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. In the UK expect to see the game around the 6th of August. Everywhere else expect to see the game around August 13th.. Oh man I'm so like totally excited now... :D I waited 4 years to announce this game going GOLD! WOOT! Also check out that UA-CORP site because it now has some activity, which is actually a countdown timer dealie... Flash required.
New Doom 3 Article On IGN
ign.com has a new Doom 3 article that further hints that the game is closer to a release as everybody hopes: A few days before this sheet appeared, id CEO and all around nice guy Todd Hollenshead stated that Doom 3 will have a significant presence at QuakeCon 2004. The large deathmatch tournament planned for the second week in August is another tantalizing hint that the game may be done. Add that to the fact that the team opted not to show the PC version at E3 so they'd have more time to finish the game and this appearance at QuakeCon 2004 makes an imminent release seem even more likely. The article is three pages long so go ahead and read that while I seek some other stuff.
Rex Finishes E1M5
Rex posted a spot of Doom news on his site. Something to do with a finished E1M5 and the hot hands of Nigel plus theres some new screenshots to gander at. Yeah Rex's Nexus got updated and I'm going off here for a break. Adios Doomers!
Deh_Edge v1.1 Released
Andrew Apted sent us the news that he's released Deh_Edge v1.1 which is a DeHackEd to Edge Ddf conversion utility. He says this release adds support for all the Boom extensions (BEX). Get that Deh_Edge v1.1!
Kaiser Releases SVStrife Beta 3 & The Strife Specs
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Kaiser updated DSV Outworld with a new version of SVStrife, a win32 source port based on the Doom-Based engine game and the Port is upgraded to Beta 3 now. Kaiser says that the current scripting system is just temporary and the next release will feature the actual scripting system, thanks to the fact that the official Strife specs by Rogue have been released by the creator of DeepSea. So if your interested in obtaining the Strife specs you can get those as well on the SVStrife page as well!
Doom III Rumors Flying About
I decided to look for some MGE news just a few moments ago and my first stop was Shack News where I noticed right off that they posted about the lastest Doom III rumor.... which happens to be... that some people think that DooM III is done because of this marketing flyer jobby that is on Gamespot that says:We said it will be out when it's done....it's done! I wouldn't read too much into that however. The game will be ready when it's done and id software and Activision have made no official announcements about when the game will be released beyond what Todd Hollenshead said when he mentioned Doom III will be ready to ship this summer. Remember that the last day of Summer is September 21st so we all may have a bit to wait yet.
The DooM Movie Is Gonna Rock!
It's very possible that The Rock will play the Doom Guy in the planned DooM Movie. There's not a whole lot of info right now but EmpireOnline has a small article online about what's going on so far... Worth a read until we can get more info on the movie and stuff...
New World 2 Released
Daniel just released New World 2, the sequel to New World. The new wad is sixteen maps for DooM II. A doom port is required to run the wad and the author says that Doom Legacy and ZDoom are recommended. For now you can get the level off of archives.3dgamers.com. Look for newwrld2.zip in the list....
DooM 3 Inaugural Deathmatch Championship At QuakeCon
Where is all this news coming from today? I got a newsletter that reported the fact that DooM III will appear at the 9th annual QuakeCon with a cool DOOM 3 Inaugural Deathmatch Championship! Quote time:Yes, you read that correctly. DOOM 3 Deathmatch is coming to QuakeCon 2004, and there has never been a more level playing field. With DOOM 3 launching this summer, there won’t be anyone who has had time to practice or master the game, and almost any QuakeCon attendee has a chance to walk away with one of the exclusive DOOM 3 prizes. We’re not telling you what they are just yet, but let’s just say that they’re fast. Registration for this 128-player tournament will begin August 12, 2004 – the first day of QuakeCon. Check out the Press Release for the entire QuakeCon information dealie. By the way the newsletter says Doom III will ship for the PC on August 3. An Xbox version will follow this fall. That's still not an official release date but it does sound good. ;)
Edge V1.28a Released
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I just recieved an email from Andrew Baker who says that Edge V1.28a was released. This release is a followup to 1.28, while development continues on 1.29. The changes are: - Fix for crouching.
- Fix for finding patches in patch dir.
- Fix for brain shooter with no spawn spots.
- Fix for close combat attacks not being consistent with Doom.
- Support for non-power-of-two textures.
- Generic STEALTH monsters added to default DDFs (Things 4050->4061).
- Windows only: Changes to make engine run under Windows 95.
- Windows only: Minimum DirectX required is now version 3.
- Windows only: improved handling of ALT+TAB.
Jump on the Edge sourceforge site and get that source port.
Risen 3D Resumes
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Category: Hosted Site | Ports/Mods |
Just got an email from Abbs and he say that the Risen 3D downloads on the site are available again. Thank the DooM gods that the licensing issues have now been resolved and everything is back on track. Hit the Risen 3D site to see what Abbs has to say.
New Atmosphere Screenshots
jetflock sent the news in that he has brand new screenshots available on his page, and some more information about the developement of his project and were taken while testing two new underwater creatures with finished sprites, sounds, and dehacked modification. Atmosphere!
Pablo Is Working on Olde New Level
Pablo Dictter sent in the news that he updated his site with some info about a (old) new level he's designing for heretic.exe and he's unsure if he's gonna use Legacy or ZDoom. He's also working on anouther Heretic level and that one will be part three of The River Of Fire series and there's a total of six shots on his site. Go now and visit a A Circle! Remember you need that Flash jobby to view the site and look for the journal section when you get over there.
Get Your Nilla DooM On WIP
Just when you think theres no news, something appears out of the internet fog. Anyhow today I jumped on Wads In Progress and noticed anouther map has been finished. So what we have here (or there I mean) is Nilla DooM by Use3d which is a Doom 2, single player map set (not sure how many maps) that is designed for doom2.exe. Go and get Nilla DooM while I go and take a rest.
Iron Demon Remix
Yikes! There for a sec I thought there wasn't any DooM news at all to mention today. Then I remembered that Wicked Anime Kid had posted about a new DooM Remix on OverClocked ReMix. This time around the Remix is Final Doom: Iron Demon and is remixed by To. The file is 4.1mb and just click on the green arrow when you get over there. Ooh and by the way Happy Independance Day all you American DooMers and lurkers!
Action DooM Released!
Scuba Steve sent in the news that he's gone and released Action DooM. So go ahead and get into the 14mb downloadable ACTION!
DooM III Book In August @ WalMart
It was pointed out to me in email by jabba33 that Walmart of all places will have a Book on the shelves in August that is titled: The Making of Doom 3: The Official Guide. So that's something to look forward to and hopefully we'll see it here in Canada.. I've not seen that special Doom collection WalMart is supposed to have... Guess time will tell. Look here.
Stigmata Review
Sematary reviewed Stigmata by Ray Schmitz which is a Doom 2 maps that requires No specific port and uber Doom fighting skills to play. Anyhow go to Doom Wad Station for the review and the download of the map.
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