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DOOM surpasses 500K sales on the PC

It appears that DOOM is doing well on the PC as id Software’s title has sold 500K units so far. This information comes from Steamspy; a Steam stats service based on Web API provided by Valve. Steamspy’s numbers are slightly delayed – if Total War: WARHAMMER’s stats are anything to go by – so we can safely assume that DOOM did sell 500K units on the PC. Continue reading DOOM surpasses 500K sales on the PC

DOOM & Total War: WARHAMMER are this week’s best selling PC games

The latest PC UK retail, Steam Digital and Green Man Gaming charts have been revealed and as we can see, DOOM and Total War: WARHAMMER are this week’s best selling games in UK, on Steam and on GMG. You can view the full charts after the jump! Continue reading DOOM & Total War: WARHAMMER are this week’s best selling PC games

DOOM fan tries to recreate a 100K Revenants map, runs immediately into SnapMap limitations

It appears that while DOOM’s SnapMap is kind of cool, it’s not as powerful or as friendly to modders, and comes with a lot of limitations. As we can see below, YouTube’s ‘MarphitimusBlackimus’ has tried to recreate a map with 100K Revenants, and ran immediately into SnapMap’s limitations. MarphitimusBlackimus was unable to create such a map, as he was limited to 64 Revenants (and 21 empty rooms). Continue reading DOOM fan tries to recreate a 100K Revenants map, runs immediately into SnapMap limitations

AMD Radeon Software 16.5.2.1 released, increases performance in DOOM

AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.2.1 increases performance by up to 35% on AMD Radeon R9 390 series products in Doom. In other words, this is a must-have driver for those with AMD GPUs. Continue reading AMD Radeon Software 16.5.2.1 released, increases performance in DOOM

DOOM is selling well on the PC as it is this week’s best selling PC game in UK, on Steam and on GMG

It appears that id Software’s new DOOM game is selling well on the PC. The latest PC UK retail, Steam Digital and Green Man Gaming charts have been revealed and as we can see, DOOM is this week’s best selling games in UK, on Steam and on GMG. You can view the full charts after the jump! Continue reading DOOM is selling well on the PC as it is this week’s best selling PC game in UK, on Steam and on GMG

DOOM – PC Performance Analysis

DOOM is a highly anticipated game as it’s the first title that is being powered by the new id Tech 6 Engine. id Tech 6 is an OpenGL/Vulkan based game engine developed by id Software, and we were really looking forward to it. After all, this is the engine that other future Bethesda games will be using, so we were curious whether it would be plagued by the same issues that affected its previous iteration, the id Tech 5. Thankfully, id Software did a great job with this engine and as a result of that, DOOM looks and plays wonderfully on the PC platform. Continue reading DOOM – PC Performance Analysis

DOOM features easter eggs for Skyrim, Fallout, Commander Keen, Terminator 2 & Classic Doom

DOOM has just been released and it appears to feature a lot of easter eggs. So far, gamers have been able to discover easter eggs for Skyrim, Fallout, Commander Keen, the classic Doom and the Terminator 2 movie. Continue reading DOOM features easter eggs for Skyrim, Fallout, Commander Keen, Terminator 2 & Classic Doom

NVIDIA GeForce 365.19 WHQL Driver released, “Game-Ready” driver for DOOM & Homefront: The Revolution

NVIDIA has just released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 365.19 WHQL driver is a game-ready driver for both DOOM and Homefront: The Revolution. Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce 365.19 WHQL Driver released, “Game-Ready” driver for DOOM & Homefront: The Revolution

DOOM – Advanced graphics settings for final version revealed

DOOM officially releases tomorrow and some PC gamers have already got their hands on it. As a result of that, the game’s advanced graphics settings have been unveiled. These settings are a bit different than those we reported a while back, which is why we decided to share them with you. Continue reading DOOM – Advanced graphics settings for final version revealed