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Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th
Rogerpq3 writes "Yes, this is the official word that [long-awaited PC FPS] DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! According to the .plan file of id CEO Todd Hollenshead: 'We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. So, the next question is release dates. Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. The official street date is actually August 5th in the U.S.A., but some of your favorite stores will probably have it early for those of you who have to have it first. Check with your local retailer for that information... [Internationally] the UK will probably get it first, on or about August 6th. Everywhere else will probably be Friday, August 13th (cue Twilight Zone Theme) or close to that date, with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland)'."
Damn, there goes the $50 I lost on the bet that Duke Nukem would come out first. :(
Hell has frozen over and pigs have learned to fly
linking to a finger server. You'd think someone could have put the text on a website or something.
sulli
RTFJ.
Just to let you know... Starting August 5th... I will not be coming into work for a week or two because of... personal reasons. If it is an emergency and you need me to come in... do not expect me to be showered, well fed or able to adapt to bright lights.
Sincerely,
Your groveling employee.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
It's all falling into place.
Doom 3.
Soon Half-life 2.
The second coming of Jesus.
And then - Duke Nukem Forever will at last be mine!
and I wanted to have kids :( This isn't fair... all that time wasted...
Now my wife will kill me after I spend $500 on a new video card to play this game.
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Is there any word on a port to OSX?
Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 coming out soon, I think its time to upgrade from windows 95 :)
All spelling mistakes are due to solar flares...honest
Looks like you'll miss the office-wide lan party.
Nope, you can't take it back. I've already scheduled your vacation into the system.
- Your Boss
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
hmm, lets figure this out... 1) Brand new gaming rig $1200 2) 2 Weeks of vacation time $3000 3) Using up all my vacation time starting Aug 3 and not being able to take time off to help my wife with our son who is expected in Sept and then getting a call from her divorce lawyer, PRICELESS wow...id games took so much of my life and now they are gonna take my marriage. btw, thanks for the free shipping!
Minimum specs are a 286 processor, 640K of RAM (620 free), and 12 megabytes of hard drive space.
Note that with the minimum configuration, Doom 3 will only run in "text mode".
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
No.
That means, they will start spreading the cracked version tomorrow.
Ni.
Everywhere else will probably be Friday, August 13th [...] with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland)
I guarantee you that it will be available on every street corner in Russia and Poland long before it is released anywhere else.
Stock of AMD, Intel, NVidia and ATI are expected to raise 200% in the next following week... ;)
You realize that you just inspired about two dozen Sourceforge projects, right?
I saw this too, I guess we've come a long way since worrying about the Morris worm.
.plan said "blah blah, thanks for fingering me!!" Maybe we shoulda hired her.
My favorite finger story: I'm working an employment fair at my old University, and a cute girl comes over and gives her resume. It's light, we placed it in the "to be made into cool paper airplanes as we pray to Bernoulli" but I noticed she had finger: mane@university.edu on her resume. I tried it, and her
Dark Room
You are in dark room. There are a couple barrels in one corner. A quickly fading light fixture above provides what little illumination there is.
There is a slobbering demon here.
>Shoot Demon with handgun.
The demon turns to face you, mildly annoyed by your pathetic attempts at exorcism.
>Equip Rocketlauncher
You heft the Rocklauncher to your shoulder. Something on the right side of your body makes a bone-cracking sound.
>Fire Rocketlauncher
Your random display of violence has caused the destruction of a pile of barrels in the corner. The resulting explosion has engulfed the demon, and the failing light fixture above.
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
I seem to remember a bunch of non believers trying to insult me when I said the 3rd of August was the date. I said come on, I run the Texas Gaming Festival, I go to E3 every year for AMDZone, and my brother writes for Voodoo. Perhaps you should listen to what I had said. You guys didn't. I'm awaiting your apologies. Anyway, this opens us up to have our Doom III tourney as we had planned at TXGF Summer 2004 Dallas the weekend before Quakecon. Sweet.
ignorance is bliss. googlefiberatx.com
Does anyone know what the minimum specs are ?
New box.
KFG
Sodium Chloride? isn't that salt?
oooooooooh... i get it! Hah, you're smart. Using those big sciency words. Wow, man, didn't see that twist comming.
This message was brought to you by the death of 30 brain cells.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
We need a nostalgic mod point.
Decode these
Part of the Bush administrations plot to distract us during the critical pre-election lies!
Joe Sixpacks, defender of the common man.
(Doom 3 was meant to come out Christmas '03, but it didn't)
Dashing through the demons,
in a single player eff-pee-ess,
through the corridors we go, shrieking all the way!
Ahh-ha-ha-ha!
Belts on chainguns fling, barrels blazing bright,
what fun it is to kill and sing a slaying song tonight!
Ohhh.. Doom in hell, Doom in hell, iD's game is almost here!
Oh what a price it is to buy, just fifty four ninety niiii-ine!
Pick it up at Best Buy, EB Games, or Gamespot!
And we shouldn't take someone who has been fired from a variety of gaming rags with the same seasoning?
Since this is Slashdot, he's probably been busy trying to build a child in the basement.
--LordPixie
The first thing I thought was:
I would take their reviews with a heavy dose of Sodium Chloride.
I wish I could make them write their reviews with a heavy dose of Sodium Pentothal.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
I predict that the release of this game will have so many computer geeks, nerds, gamers, etc. (I'm in all those categories) out of the office for most of August that the following will happen:
IronChefMorimoto
I head a rumor that it's being shrink-wrapped and bundled along with MS Longhorn. ;)