Tyler Rilling

The inclusion of multiplayer co-op and deathmatch modes changed everything about games. We knew that playing a game as fast and over-the-top as DOOM would signal a new era. I visualized what E1M7 would look like with two players shooting rockets at each other over a large room and it got me more excited than I had been since Wolfenstein 3D’s chaingun audio.

Its not to say Doom invented multiplayer, however most games were usually were pretty exclusive to a single screen. There was something

The original Doom turns 25 this year, and to celebrate, its co-creater, John Remero made a new chapter to the original game, titled Sigil.

Sigil, according to the website, is an unofficial 5th episode to the game:

I wanted the levels to feel like they belong to the original game as if they were a true fifth episode. There’s more detail in the levels than episodes 1-4, but not overly so. I believe that people playing Sigil will recognize my design style, but see new things I’m doing because t

And it’s looking beautiful.

Joker from Persona 5 is joining the latest Super Smash Brothers as DLC. Now add Chie you cowards.

Developers receive 88% of revenue. There are no tiers or thresholds. Epic takes 12%. And if you’re using Unreal Engine, Epic will cover the 5% engine royalty for sales on the Epic Games store, out of Epic’s 12%.

The timing of this is interesting, coming just days after Stream’s new tiered pricing favoring larger titles.

A cute little CSS framework that tries to copy the look and feel of the NES.

Via twitter:

As of November 28 at 2pm PST, the North American and European WildStar game service has closed. Thank you to everyone who joined us on this grand adventure across Nexus!

I never played the game, but it’s always sad to see an MMO close up shop.

I love this. I never thought to use Typeform this way. It’s still not as open as something like Ink [https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/] or Twine [http://twinery.org/], but it’s always great to see services being used for strange new things.

The zero-day patch is sitting at 54 GB. Between this and the news that the next Overwatch patch will require you to reinstall the entire game [https://kotaku.com/overwatchs-next-big-patch-will-require-a-full-reinstall-1830345320] , maybe studios should start refocusing on optimizations to code.

The studio behind Wallace and Gromit will be handing over 75% ownership to it’s workers, assuring the team won’t be in danger of a big company buyout.

A great little essay Stan Lee wrote for The Atlantic in 2007, that’s just as important today as it was then.

The New York Times has a fitting tribute by Brian Michael Bendis, Bill Walko and Howie Noel.