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I agree, but let's not forget about Cormack and the Doom series that uses OpenGL!

Next on slashdot, how the Russians will open the gates of hell.

It's so simple!

Coming soon, a skillful rendition of the award-winning Doom : The Boardgame, specifically designed for your PC!
- Stop worrying about losing plastic monster pieces or rolling dice under the sofa. Doom : The Boardgame : The Computer Version takes care of all that for you!
-Never worry about running out of table space for maps again; D:TB:TCV comes complete with many custom-designed maps specifically engineered for optimal entertainment.
-In addition, new "single player" feature allows you to play Doom : The Boardgame : The Computer Version against the computer, so you can still play even when your friends are unavailable or nonexistant!

As you can expect, a computer game is a bit more expensive than an old cardboard-and-plastic board game. However, by outsourcing to India, we've managed to keep the price as low as possible. Only twice the price of the board game: $120!

Download the game from here: Doom : The Boardgame : The Computer Version
We will be sending you a bill as soon as we clear up a few issues with our legal department.

First of all, DOOM takes place on Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. http://www.planetdoom.com/doom/overview/

Secondly, the blockbuster version of DOOM will lose the setting and the demons. Amazingly, Hollywood found a way to make the plot worse. http://www.nightly.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb= get_topic;f=56;t=008003;p=0

Well, I'm not sooo surprised ... more 'what are we (rather, THEY) going to do about it?' (THEIR kinda infamous story screening process)

btw, I've pasted my coverage of the story below - and I'd like to get opinions if I did a to sloppy job, or not. (IMHO, I didn't - but that's me :)).

--start--

Doom Movie Enters Production Phase

No more speculating - it's final; Universal Pictures has announced[A goat needed to be scarified to FLASH-lord, to enter] that it has gone into production. So fellow Doom *Geeks*, mark August 5, 2005 in your calendars as "Call in sick"-day :). Read below for a re-production of the FLASH-(text)-content [for all ye' voices who would have cried out loud].

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TITLE: DOOM
IN THEATERS: August 5, 2004
FILM INFORMATION:

• Genre: Futuristic action-adventure
• 
  Cast:
  Directed By: Enda McCallion
  Writer: Dave Callaham
  Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Wells

SYNOPSIS:

• Millions of devoted fans worldwide have been spellbound by the dark invention of its adventures .... have awaited its every incarnation with urgent anticipation ... and have devoted countless hours, days and weeks to conquering its hidden mysterios: Doom.

• When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.

  Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless yearsin the future and told in the hyper-kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.

  Doom will serve as the feature film directorial debut of Enda McCallion. The film is written by Dave Callaham, based on id Software and Activision videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER).

WEBSITE: Official Website Coming Soon

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PS. Reservation of minor TypeError - and no I didn't have anything else to do an a friday night then re-type the Flash announcement ( *geeks* - do have prioritise too, just not 'the usuals' :-))

PPS. Actors haven't be named yet, but according to imdb it look like The Rock ("The Scorpion King") will play 'Sarge' and Karl Urban ("The Bourne Supremacy", "Chronicles of Riddic" and "LoTR:TRoTK/TTT") will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero). Got to admit he actually looks *kinda a lot* like him

--stop--

Well, I'm not sooo surprised ... more 'what are we (rather, THEY) going to do about it?' (THEIR kinda infamous story screening process)

btw, I've pasted my coverage of the story below - and I'd like to get opinions if I did a to sloppy job, or not. (IMHO, I didn't - but that's me :)).

--start--

Doom Movie Enters Production Phase

No more speculating - it's final; Universal Pictures has announced[A goat needed to be scarified to FLASH-lord, to enter] that it has gone into production. So fellow Doom *Geeks*, mark August 5, 2005 in your calendars as "Call in sick"-day :). Read below for a re-production of the FLASH-(text)-content [for all ye' voices who would have cried out loud].

- - -

TITLE: DOOM
IN THEATERS: August 5, 2004
FILM INFORMATION:

• Genre: Futuristic action-adventure
• 
  Cast:
  Directed By: Enda McCallion
  Writer: Dave Callaham
  Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Wells

SYNOPSIS:

• Millions of devoted fans worldwide have been spellbound by the dark invention of its adventures .... have awaited its every incarnation with urgent anticipation ... and have devoted countless hours, days and weeks to conquering its hidden mysterios: Doom.

• When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.

  Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless yearsin the future and told in the hyper-kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.

  Doom will serve as the feature film directorial debut of Enda McCallion. The film is written by Dave Callaham, based on id Software and Activision videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER).

WEBSITE: Official Website Coming Soon

- - -

PS. Reservation of minor TypeError - and no I didn't have anything else to do an a friday night then re-type the Flash announcement ( *geeks* - do have prioritise too, just not 'the usuals' :-))

PPS. Actors haven't be named yet, but according to imdb it look like The Rock ("The Scorpion King") will play 'Sarge' and Karl Urban ("The Bourne Supremacy", "Chronicles of Riddic" and "LoTR:TRoTK/TTT") will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero). Got to admit he actually looks *kinda a lot* like him

--stop--

How about NATIVE! I don't want a windows binary.

Wait for it.

Quoteth the Doom 3 faq:
id Software has stated that DOOM 3 will be released for Linux and Mac OS X as well.

Go pick up the latest PCGamer and read the review. Or go check out PlanetDoom and read the reviews in the forum section. All signs point to it being an amazing game that completely lives up to the hype.

I was looking at planetdoom and found this page.

Recommended requirements are about what I'd expected:

GF Ti4200, Athlon 2500+, 512MB RAM

I read about Doom 3's release date on Planet Doom before the story was posted on slashdot. Also, I wonder if the WAD file format is going to change.

1. DOOM3 is using an extremely advanced (and impressive) audio system. There is an excellent write-up of it here. For an atmospheric game like DOOM3, that sounds absolutely perfect.

2. Beware the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum if you are a gamer. It sounds fantastic, but the live drive (or whatever the Augidy 2 generation 5.25" sized input access is called), consistantly crashed games in my system (3000+, 9800 Pro, 1 GB RAM). To my surprise, when I disconnected the live drive and left the PCI card in, everything ran beautifully again. I always thought it was my viedo card acting up, but when Quake3 started crashing consistantly I had to do some investigation and to my surprise the Audigy was the guilty party.

This product is due to be released on December 14, 2004.We are giving you the opportunity to be the first to purchase it. Please bear in mind this is a predicted release date. It is based purely on estimates made by Tux Games. This date is not supplied to us by the product developer. This is NOT a confirmed release date!

Tux Games will order the product on the day it becomes available, and will ship it immediately to you. Delivery time will be as listed below from the day we receive our stock.

Minimum Requirements
Currently Unspecified

It will also be released for Linux and MacOS X as well.

A video card with at least 128MB RAM and Pixel Shader 1.1 support is required for DOOM 3.

A 2.5GHz CPU should be enough for the stencil shadows and physics calculations.

The testing phase might last till summer or even later this year.
DOOM 3 will be released on 4 CDs.

Last time we heard about the target system for DOOM 3 it was just a PC with a GeForce 3 class video card, but according to that Q&A it will be the minimum. Maybe we will find out more during the upcoming GDC.
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Looks like *I* won't buy buying/playing this game.

Fuck Id if they think I'm going to toss my Athon XP 2100+ and my Verto GF4 (64MB) just for their sorry asses

Well, most of us have been training for this day for quite a while. I think the world will be safe.

Quote:
"Will there be a co-op mode?
"Definitely not :("