Why ‘DOOM: The Dark Ages’ feels so buttery-smooth
DOOM 2016 is one of my favorite shooters, and a big part of that is how fast and smooth it feels, despite being no slouch in the visuals department. Its threequel, DOOM: The Dark Ages,…
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A high school student just made Doom playable in a PDF file
There’s a growing trend of developers flexing their muscles to make PDF documents do completely different things than what they’re intended to do. The goal is to push the boundaries of the PDF format. PDF…
161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom
The text anticipated several modern AI safety concerns, including the possibility of machine consciousness, self-replication, and humans losing control of their technological creations. These themes later appeared in works like Isaac Asimov’s The Evitable Conflict…
New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model that can interactively simulate the classic 1993 first-person shooter game Doom in real time using…
Doom + Doom II re-released with more content, 4K, co-op, and more
Yesterday ushered in the start of this year’s QuakeCon, the Dallas gaming convention organized by developer id Software. New editions of the legendary shooters Doom and Doom II were presented there, complete with technical improvements…