News Bethesda Confirms E3 2019 Showcase
"It’s going to be a hell of a night"
Doom - News
May2019
News Bethesda Really Wants You To Join Its Reward Program, Lots Of Cool Stuff Up For Grabs
The Slayers Club
If you cast your mind back to December of last year, you may remember the grand unveiling of the Slayers Club, a rewards program launched to celebrate DOOM's 25th anniversary. In case you didn't sign up on day one, Bethesda has provided a fresh write up of how everything works and what you can receive by joining the fun. Once...
March2019
News Bethesda Confirms E3 2019 Showcase
"It’s going to be a hell of a night"
After EA announced its press conference would be replaced by multiple live streams at E3 2019, a number of other publishers have been encouraged to reveal their own plans. Bethesda is the latest one, confirming it will be returning to E3 this year to host its annual video game showcase. Here's the rundown from...
News Just To Make It Clear, id Software Has No Involvement With Doom: Annihilation
Hell no
At the time of writing, the Doom: Annihilation movie trailer has had more than 350,000 views. So far, more than 8,800 viewers have disliked the 30-second clip, and just under 700 apparently like the look of Hell. Shortly after the trailer went live, a fan reached out to id Software and the official DOOM account on Twitter to see how the...
Video The Doom Annihilation Movie Looks Absolutely Horrifying
In more ways than one
Take a moment to reflect on 2005 and you might remember the science fiction action horror film based on id Software's famous video game franchise DOOM, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. It ended up being a box office bomb and was a movie the majority of fans and critics would rather forget. Years later, Johnson himself said...
January2019
News Modder Tries To Create A First-Person 8-Bit Zelda Game Inside DOOM Engine
A new perspective
The Legend of Zelda series has taken some interesting new steps in recent years - Breath of the Wild was an entirely different take on the franchise's usual setup - but one thing we wouldn't expect to see is a first-person adventure. And especially not a first-person adventure with NES-style graphics. As it so happens, though,...
News DOOM Eternal Composer Recruiting Heavy Metal Choir For Unspecified Project
It’s probably DOOM
Last year, Bethesda announced DOOM Eternal would be coming to the Nintendo Switch at QuakeCon. Once again, the studio handling the Switch port will be the specialists at Panic Button. The hellish soundtrack for the game is being handled by the returning composer Mick Gordon. In what is quite possibly related news, Gordon is...
December2018
Video Digital Foundry Revisits DOOM On The Nintendo Switch
Return to Hell
Last week, Panic Button unleashed hell on the Switch by releasing a new update for its 2017 title, DOOM. The developer said patch 1.2 improved the game's performance and allowed players to add recent competitors to their friend list. It also added in a video capture option, enabling the most brutal moments in the game to be recorded...
News Panic Button Unleashes Hell On Switch With A New Performance Update For DOOM
Video recording also added
Panic Button is absolutely killing it on the Nintendo Switch right now. Its expertise porting games across to the new Nintendo system extends to a variety of major third-party releases. Most recently, the developer's focus has been on bringing Digital Extremes' free-to-play third-person shooter Warframe to the hybrid...
News Bethesda Celebrates 25 Years Of DOOM With New Slayers Club, Get Exclusive Content And Rewards
Including a special skin for DOOM Eternal
The first entry in the DOOM series launched on this very day 25 years ago on 10th December 1993, and Bethesda is celebrating the anniversary in style with a new video and a year's worth of exclusive goodies for fans, all wrapped up inside a new Slayers Club program. The video (which you can watch above)...
August2018
News DOOM Eternal's PvP Component Won't Be An Extension Of Existing Multiplayer Mode
Internally developed as well
At QuakeCon, Bethesda announced DOOM Eternal was coming to the Nintendo Switch at some point in the future. The game will be handled by port specialist Panic Button and will include a new "Invasion Mode" where players can enter other player’s campaign runs. It's no surprise the game will also include other...
June2018
News Hellish Sequel Doom Eternal Announced By Bethesda
Platforms unconfirmed
Bethesda have today announced that a direct follow up to 2016's DOOM, titled DOOM Eternal is currently in development. The publisher has promised double the number of demons and a whole lot more action. Unfortunately for Switch owners, the platforms this game will be released on have not yet been revealed, and so begins...
April2018
News Scare Yourself Silly With The Official DOOM Soundtrack Release On Vinyl And CD
Pre-orders available now
Laced Records, in partnership with Bethesda Softworks, has announced that the DOOM Original Game Soundtrack will make its physical form debut on vinyl and CD this summer. The release will be available in four formats, spanning a Deluxe Double CD ($15), Double Vinyl with 20 favourite tracks selected by the developers ($35),...
Rumour Did Bethesda Just Tease DOOM 2 For This Year's E3?
"Hell on Earth"
E3 is rapidly approaching with only two months separating us from some (hopefully) great gaming reveals, but one publisher that hasn't been building the hype for the latter half of this year is DOOM and Skyrim wonder-studio, Bethesda. Until now... In a conversation with Dualshockers, Bethesda Softworks’ Senior Vice President...
February2018
News Hackers Are On A Mission To Port More Doom To Switch
We heard you like Doom
Last year, the unthinkable happened - the Switch got a new Doom game, the first since the '90s. A remarkable technical accomplishment, Doom gained rave reviews - but if industrious hackers have their way, it won't be the last slice of hellish FPS action we get on Switch. As reported by Kotaku, there are other Doom games...
Video What's It Like To Play DOOM With Motion Controls, Then?
Alex finds out, using science (kinda)
DOOM was updated today with motion control support, bringing Splatoon 2-style aiming to one of the most impressive technical showcases on Switch. This significant update has caught the attention of quite a few Switch owners, and if you've previously passed on purchasing the game, it could be the selling point...
News New DOOM Update Adds Motion Controls On Nintendo Switch
Hell has never been so accessible
Released towards the end of last year, DOOM was one of the more surprising, yet extremely welcome, additions to the Switch's early library - so much so that it starred in our most memorable games of 2017 feature. To add to the game's rather ferocious impact on Nintendo's hybrid console, publisher Bethesda has...
January2018
News How DOOM On The SNES Pushed The Hardware To Its Technical Limits
Sound familiar?
DOOM recently launched on the Nintendo Switch and while technical compromises had to be made in order to get it to run on Nintendo's portable platform, we nevertheless praised it in our review for being a quality port that had enough of a flavour of the full-fat version of the game to be worthwhile. It's amazing to think that...
December2017
Feature Memorable Games of 2017 - DOOM
Because even portable cyberdemons need slaying
In this series of features Nintendo Life contributors will share thoughts on their most memorable games of 2017. This entry by upcoming site editor Dom Roseigh-Lincoln focuses on the high profile port of DOOM to Nintendo Switch. If you’d have sidled up to me six months ago and whispered in my...
November2017
News Digital Foundry Gives Its Full Analysis of DOOM on Nintendo Switch
Impressive for a handheld shooter, but with compromises
For anyone that's been following the game closely, it's no surprise to say that DOOM has some compromises in order to tick along on Nintendo's diminutive system. The fact it's there is impressive in its own right, but squeezing a current-gen game (originally released to critical acclaim in...
Soapbox DOOM is the Most Important Switch Game Yet
A sign of good times ahead?
DOOM is great, no doubt you'll know that if you've played it or read our review, but despite so many other incredible titles from Nintendo's fair hand, DOOM marks something far more important than what Nintendo produces on its own systems. A fully-fledged, modern shooter like this was not a common sight on a Nintendo...
Video See How Well DOOM Holds Up on Switch Compared to Xbox One
Hell on Mars, but in a good way
It's probably fairly safe to say that nobody expected DOOM to arrive on the Nintendo Switch before it was announced. A truly bonefide modern generation shooter coming to what is in terms of form factor a handheld console? We know they say DOOM runs on anything, but still, we were surprised. We were even more...
A bloody good time
It's 2017, and this is a review for DOOM on the Nintendo Switch. Even after having completed the 8-to-10 hour campaign, spending a few more hours in multiplayer and having tried out arcade mode, it still feels unreal. After 20 years, id's magnum opus is back on a Nintendo console. "They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you...
News DOOM Pre-Purchase is Now Live on the European Switch eShop
Suit up, marine
There are some heavy-hitters arriving on the Switch over the next few weeks, one of them being DOOM. It'll be fascinating to see how this one is received on Nintendo's system, and those eager to jump in as soon as it lands on 10th November may be looking into pre-orders. Just last week Nintendo of Europe confirmed that The Elder...
News Bethesda Adopts "Popular Internet Saying" To Promote DOOM On Switch
Prepare for "Nintendoom"
Nintendo's critics have been saying that the Japanese company is on the rocks for years, and the term "Nintendoomed" is often lazily rolled out whenever the firm hits a bumpy patch in the road. The diminishing handheld market and the dismal Wii U era saw the phrase get used on several occasions, but since the success...
October2017
News DOOM Confirmed for Nintendo Switch Launch on 10th November
Welcome to your DOOM
One of the most notable third party releases coming up for the Switch later this year is DOOM, which held up really well in our hands-on preview; an impressive feat for the diminutive system. While we knew that the game was targeted for a Q4 release this year, Bethesda has revealed today that the launch date will be 10th...
News DOOM Provides a 'Good Reference Point' to What Wolfenstein II Will Offer on Switch
Anything you can do, I can do too
With DOOM and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus heading to Switch, many are understandably intrigued to see exactly how well they will perform on the system. Recently we shared details on how DOOM is set to look on the console - perhaps most notably including the fact that it will run at 720p
September2017
News DOOM Will Be 720p When Docked, And Unsurprisingly There's No 'Motion' Aiming
9GB multiplayer download is due to using a 16GB cart
When we went hands on with DOOM on Nintendo Switch we were rather impressed with what we saw, albeit getting such a technically impressive game on the system is clearly a challenge. Demo events had attendees playing in portable mode to accentuate the technical achievement, though left some...
News The Team Behind Switch DOOM Is Also Porting Rocket League To Nintendo's Console
A talented bunch, it seems
DOOM on Switch is a pretty incredible technical achievement - even if it's not quite as detail-rich as other versions - and the team behind the port clearly has some serious talent. Panic Button isn't a name that many people will have heard of, but the studio is also porting Rocket League to Switch as well, so it clearly...
Video Digital Foundry Breaks Down DOOM On Switch In A Unique Way
...by creating a Switch-spec PC to test its limits
DOOM on Switch is quite a thing, as you'll know if you've read our hands-on impressions of the game. However, in case you were wondering just how well the game can possibly run on a system which contains mobile hardware, our friends over at Digital Foundry have posted a interesting video...
First Impressions Hell in a Handbasket - DOOM on Nintendo Switch
Big, dumb, and lots of fun
Now, with the Bethesda published 2016 iteration coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year, DOOM can be small and dumb, while still having its trademark 'BFG'. We got our chance to try out id Software’s upcoming port of its DOOM franchise reboot at a Bethesda event earlier this month; look, we know what questions you...
News Retail Version of DOOM on Switch Will Need a Download for Online Multiplayer
All DLC included, but no SnapMap level editor
Confirmation that DOOM is coming to the Switch this year was one of the bigger announcements to come out of this week's Nintendo Direct. The fact that a critical and commercial 'current-gen' hit from 2016 will be playable on the go - and docked, of course - is a welcome piece of news. Unsurprisingly -...
News Doom Will Bring Hell to Switch This Holiday Season
Gear up, marine
In one of the biggest surprises of today's Nintendo Direct broadcast, Nintendo confirmed that Bethesda's Doom will be coming to the Nintendo Switch in the Holiday season. Originally released in May 2016, it was a critically acclaimed new entry in the series that delivered intense 60FPS gunplay. It's a particularly fascinating...
April2016
Random This New Mod Gives GoldenEye A Feeling of Doom
See you in hell, James
GoldenEye 007 is a stone cold classic, even if modern TVs and wobbly N64 controller joysticks do it few favours. Credited by some as a vital release for the FPS genre on consoles, it stands as one of Rare's greatest games. Of course, the fact that licensing issues have left it in the annals of history is a pity, meaning we...
December2014
News The N64 Almost Got A Multiplayer-Focused Doom Sequel
Details regarding the cancelled Doom Absolution emerge
The N64 got an exclusive Doom title in 1997, but this wasn't the only game in the lineage that was planned for Nintendo's 64-bit system. The plan was to follow up with Doom Absolution, a 2-player competitive shooter developed to capitalise on the deathmatch craze triggered by Rare's excellent...
September2014
An exclusive to the console in what is a relatively small-scale franchise, Doom 64 has been unfavourably compared to Rare's masterpieces when it's a great FPS in its own right. An abundance of well-designed levels, monsters, secrets, and weaponry is wonderfully coupled by the haunting soundtrack and dark, atmospheric scenery. This is still a joy to...
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