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The Atlan is shown in key artwork for DOOM: The Dark Ages

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Dark Science | Despite low Steam turnout, Doom: The Dark Ages is id Software's most popular game at launch, clearly thanks to Game Pass

Doom: The Dark Ages is apparently id Software's biggest launch, if you strictly accept Bethesda's definition.

May 21, 2025 Sherif Saed

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The player stands inside of an elevator in DOOM: The Dark Ages' Sentinel Command Station chapter

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DOOM: TDA Chapter 12 Sentinel Command Station secrets

Here’s where you’ll find all secrets and collectible items in DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Chapter 12 - Sentinel Command Station.

May 19, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The Slayer is inside of the Atlan in DOOM: The Dark Ages' Hellbreaker chapter

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 11 Hellbreaker secrets

DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Chapter 11 - Hellbreaker is home to just one secret, and here’s where to find it.

May 19, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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The Dark Steam Ages | Doom: The Dark Ages has the lowest Steam player count of any of the modern Doom games at launch

Doom: The Dark Ages has not had the best Steam launch, at least when you compare it to the other modern Doom games.

May 19, 2025 Sherif Saed

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A large door is illuminated green and slowly opening in a cutscene during DOOM: The Dark Ages' The Forsaken Plains chapter

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 10 Forsaken Plains secrets

Here’s where you’ll find all secret areas and locations in Chapter 10 - The Forsaken Plains of DOOM: The Dark Ages.

May 16, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The Slayer aims at a Mancubus in key artwork for DOOM: The Dark Ages

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Siege Part 1 wolf statue locations

During Chapter 6 - The Siege Part 1 of DOOM: The Dark Ages, there are three mysterious wolf statues to track down and destroy. Here’s where you’ll find them.

May 16, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Ancestral Forge wolf statue locations

Here’s where you’ll find all three wolf statues in DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 9 - Ancestral Forge.

May 15, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

One of the charges for the Ancestral Forge heart is shown in DOOM: The Dark Ages

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 9 Ancestral Forge secrets

Here’s exactly where to find every collectible, secret, and upgrade in DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Chapter 9 - Ancestral Forge.

May 15, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

A ship can be seen dropping off the Doom Slayer in DOOM: The Dark Ages' Abyssal Forest

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 8 Abyssal Forest secrets

Here’s where you’ll find all collectibles and secrets in DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Chapter 8 - Abyssal Forest.

May 15, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The player aims a turret at a large door in The Siege Part 2 chapter of DOOM: The Dark Ages

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 7 Siege Part 2 secrets

Here’s where you'll find all secrets and collectibles in Chapter 7 - The Siege Part 2 of DOOM: The Dark Ages.

May 15, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The Doom Slayer in Doom The Dark Ages opposite an Oblivion Gate in Oblivion Remastered.

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Boomer Stabber | UPDATE: Rip and Tamriel: Doom's Praetor armour has been modded into Oblivion Remastered, so you can practice for The Dark Ages by duffing up Daedra

By Azura, by Azura, by Azura, it's the Doom Slayer, standing here, next to me!

May 15, 2025 Mark Warren

The Doom Slayer can be seen in key artwork for DOOM: The Dark Ages

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DOOM: The Dark Ages tips, tricks, and guides

Here are our DOOM: The Dark Ages tips, tricks, and guides to help you with shredding demons.

May 13, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The player looks at a Sentinel Shrine in DOOM: The Dark Ages

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How to upgrade weapons in DOOM: The Dark Ages

Here’s exactly how – and when – to upgrade your guns, melee weapons, and shield at a Sentinel Shrine in DOOM: The Dark Ages.

May 13, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

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Rip, Tear, share | Doom: The Dark Ages locks a slice of the action behind a sadly all-too-common marketing deal

Just before most of us could get our hands on Doom: The Dark Ages, there's enough time for one last product tie-in.

May 13, 2025 Sherif Saed

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The Slayer aims at a Hell Knight in key artwork for DOOM: The Dark Ages

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 6 Siege Part 1 secrets

Here’s all the collectibles and secret locations that there are to discover across the battlefield in DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Chapter 6 - The Siege Part 1.

May 13, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The player looks at the Slayer's dragon in the Holy City of Aratum chapter in DOOM: The Dark Ages

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 5 Holy City of Aratum secrets

Here’s your one-stop shop for tracking down all secrets and collectibles in DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 5 - The Holy City of Aratum.

May 13, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The player looks out towards a distant city during the Sentinel Barracks chapter in DOOM: The Dark Ages

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 4 Sentinel Barracks secrets

Here’s where to find all secrets and collectibles in DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 4, Sentinel Barracks.

May 13, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The player spawns at the very beginning of the Hebeth chapter in DOOM: The Dark Ages, and looks out towards some flags and a dusty landscape

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 2 Hebeth secrets

Here’s where to find all secret areas and collectible items in Chapter 2 of DOOM: The Dark Ages, Hebeth.

May 13, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

The Doom Slayer aims at an Imp Stalker in key artwork for DOOM: The Dark Ages

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Slay! | DOOM: The Dark Ages Chapter 1 Village of Khalim secrets

Here’s where you’ll find every secret and collectible in Chapter 1 – Village of Khalim – of DOOM: The Dark Ages.

May 13, 2025 Kelsey Raynor

Review

You call that a fief | Doom The Dark Ages review: The road to hell is paved with hypertension

Stressful, but in a good way, Doom The Dark Ages thunders along a well-trodden path but fails to break any new ground.

May 9, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2025

Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!

May 1, 2025 Connor Makar

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Pre-order | Amazon bypasses a Microsoft timed-exclusive and opens pre-orders for the Doom: The Dark Ages controller

Inspired by the Slayer, this limited edition Xbox gamepad is already available to order.

April 17, 2025 Christian Wait

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Martin Septim in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion opposite Emperor Uriel Septim in the fan-made Oblivion boomer shooter.

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Gore-and Champion | By Azura, forget that rumoured Oblivion Remake, someone's created a Doom-style Tamrihell filled with killer Adoring Fans

I assume in lore terms this is a realm Sheogorath put together just to make sure the Hero of Kvatch went full Shivering Isles NPC.

April 14, 2025 Mark Warren

First-person view of the Doom Slayer holding a toy in his hand against the fantasy backdrop of Doom The Dark Ages

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Keep Your Secrets | My favourite thing about Doom: The Dark Ages so far? Its open areas tell you when there’s a “point of no return”

Completionists and 100% sickos take note, Doom: The Dark Ages is looking out for your compulsive interests.

March 31, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

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En Guard | It turns out the only thing the nu-Doom formula needed to draw me back in is a crunchy, satisfying parry system, and Doom: The Dark Ages has absolutely nailed it

Doom: TDA knows that a single-player-only game with the largest and “most complete” campaign experience in the series needed a killer hook.

March 31, 2025 Dom Peppiatt

Tony Hawk in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater™ 3 + 4.

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Doom-pping In | UPDATE: Surprise, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 officially revealed, along with a release date and a deluxe edition that'll make you shout 'Hell yeah' as you kickflip

Bird out of the blue.

March 4, 2025 Mark Warren

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A 30-story Atlan mech from Doom: The Dark Ages.

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Peak | "It's like a classic piece of art" Doom: The Dark Ages' director on revisiting the original boomer shooter for inspiration

"It's like a painter going to a museum and studying the Norman Rockwell painting he's already studied 50 times."

Feb. 22, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

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Boomer Schooler | “It always felt like this vague form of superficial hell to me” Doom: The Gallery Experience devs on turning a 90s shooter into high culture

Read on to find out which Renaissance paintings they think Doomguy himself would get a kick out of.

Jan. 8, 2025 Mark Warren

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Hell Yeah | One of gaming's best metal songs has just passed 100 million streams on Spotify

Mick Gordon is a beloved composer, with one of his most popular tracks soaring past the 100 stream mark.

Jan. 7, 2025 Connor Makar

Doomguy carrying around some wine while looking at art in Doom: The Gallery Experience.

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Culture Classic | Doom: The Gallery Experience takes you to the real hell - trying not to choke on wine and cheese by sniggering at the nude bits of classical art

*cough* Oh, yes, it's a *cough* masterpiece, you can tell by the shading around the er...excuse me a moment...

Jan. 6, 2025 Mark Warren

A character wearing T-51 power armour in Fallout 76.

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Wasteland Walkout | UPDATE: "We are not afraid to do what's necessary" Hundreds of Fallout and Elder Scrolls devs at Zenimax go on strike against Microsoft

The need to bargain over issues like remote work options and outsourcing is the crux of the one-day action, union claims.

Nov. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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On the left, a Nintendo Alarmo, an alarm clock that features Mario on it. On the right, Doom key art showing Doom Guy shooting a gun at demons.

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Clocked In | It was only a matter of time: someone has gotten Doom to run on the Nintendo Alarmo

The age old question answered once again.

Nov. 3, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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White Noiz | The best video game soundtracks to revisit in 2025

From classical symphonies and industrial noise to acid jazz and synthwave, these game soundtracks leave no stone left unturned.

Oct. 24, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Skyrim's Dragonborn opposite a helldiver in Helldivers 2 wielding a rifle.

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Toddaly Unexpected | After a minor calendar mix-up, Helldivers 2's next big patch drops soon and it's already inspired jokes about Skyrim being ported to some bullets

To be fair, I doubt you'll have much time to play DOOM on your rifle while you're in the middle of a firefight.

Oct. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

The player shooting a Margaret Thatcher in Thatcher's Techbase.

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Maggie's Back | Remember the Doom mod that lets you kill Margaret Thatcher? You can now try and beat Jeremy Corbyn's world record on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, but not Switch

"Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't want you pissing on graves."

Aug. 9, 2024 Mark Warren

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Jim and Connor having emotions in a British Pub

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PODCAST | Which games have aged like a fine wine, and why is everyone so mad at our guest host?

There's nothing graceful about the Best Games Ever podcast episode 104

July 2, 2024 Jim Trinca

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Year Zero | Doom: The Dark Ages takes us back to the beginning, and it'll be in our hands next year

After a few leaks, Doom: The Dark Ages has been officially announced as the next game game in the shooter series.

June 9, 2024 Sherif Saed

Doom Guy fighting a demon super imposed over a blurred image of various game posters.

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LET IT RIP | New Doom rumoured as Xbox June showcase approaches

This would mark the first new entry in the reboot since 2020.

May 13, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Some enemies fighting each other in Dragon's Dogma 2.

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TWISTED FIGHTSTARTER | Doom-inspired Dragon's Dogma 2 mod lets you engineer inter-enemy fights by controlling exactly how angry they can get

As Harry Hill would say, there's only one real way to find out whether a Cyclops is better than a wolf.

April 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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The best FPS games to play in 2025

Sometimes, you just need to pop some heads.

Feb. 29, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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A lawn more is sat on a fake grassbed in front of three screens showing Doom.

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CUT AND TRIM | Need another way to play Doom? How about a lawn mower?

Add that to the ever-growing pile of weird ways to play the classic shooter.

Feb. 25, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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QUAKING IN MY BOOTS | Did the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gameplay reveal tease Quake 6 through a whiteboard? Maybe!

It was an ever-so-slight blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment though.

Jan. 21, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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The best Nintendo Switch games to play in 2025

Here are some of the best Switch games to try out.

Jan. 1, 2024 James Billcliffe

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BEYOND HERETIC | If Phil Spencer really wants to bring back Hexen, the System Shock remake devs are standing by

Stop teasing folks and let it happen, Xbox man

Oct. 18, 2023 Mark Warren

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NO LIFE STYLE | The best Bethesda games that aren’t Bethesda games

If you see it, you can go there. But who does it best? Find out in The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 66!

Aug. 25, 2023 Jim Trinca

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STROGGTASTIC | Quake 2 enhanced is here: Relive the classic with updated graphics and new content

Experience the original game, only better.

Aug. 10, 2023 Stephany Nunneley-Jackson

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DISNEY MATTER | Disney vs Football: what's the best licensed game ever?

All the biggest media brands want a slice of the gaming pie. Welcome to The Best Games Ever Show episode 58.

June 30, 2023 Jim Trinca

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Custom header split of John Romero and the Game Developers Awards 2023

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BF TROPHY | John Romero recieves lifetime achievement award

For his work on DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein and far more, the Galway resident gets a well-earned reward.

March 23, 2023 Connor Makar

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Four the Win | Concept trailer for Doom 4 shows us what could have been

The game eventually went on to become the Doom (2016) we all know and love.

March 5, 2023 Oisin Kuhnke

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MESSY BACK AND FORTH | Mick Gordon releases tell-all statement on Doom Eternal OST

The lengthy blog post hosts claims of intense crunch, delayed pay, mismanagement, and a brutal legal battle.

Nov. 9, 2022 Connor Makar

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