Happy Hellidays and a Merry Anti-Christmas to you all! The 2025 Cacowards are live. Read about all of this year's best content for Doom. Special thanks to our guest artist, the incredibly talented, @xous54.bsky.social. www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2025

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

The pre-release for UZDoom's debut is here! If you'd like to help us test UZDoom in preparation for 4.14.3 grab the build here: github.com/UZDoom/UZDoo... (expand the Assets tab) (Windows and Linux available; Mac coming later) Read the details here: zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...

About UZDoom: we expect to have the first downloadable build ready in 2 - 3 weeks. Kitchen's been busy 🙏

So I guess that new Final Fantasy 14 mount is pretty popular! Makes sense, it is a cute cat after all.

I wrote my own thoughts on the #StopKillingGames initiative, including 12 counter arguments to the counter arguments from that Pirate Thor fellow: ko-fi.com/Post/Stop-Ki...

Had an urge to play a Doom 2 WAD & decided to check out Abscission by Snaxalotl after seeing a lot of recommendations for it. 10 maps in & am loving it so far. The optional MP3 music pack for the WAD really adds to the spooky, moody atmosphere constructed here. www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

So, I played through Episode 3 of "Ultimate Doom In Name Only" Far more of a mixed bag than the first two episodes. The maps all looked gorgeous, but gameplay design choices in some maps (mostly E3M5, E3M6 & E3M8) really disagree with me.

Network test success. Slowly lifting the GZDoom netcode curse. Ongoing behind the scenes netcode improvements, and improved it has. 6 players across the world, no connection troubles (OGs remember the struggle), SMOOTH prediction (feels like playing single player), no jitter/rubberbanding. #GZDoom

Oh also go play "Theme-gawad" it's good fun! Disclaimer - I made 2 maps for this megawad. www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

I've also recently gotten back into classic Doom wads, been playing through "Ultimate Doom In Name Only", a project where mappers were tasked with completely redesigning Doom 1's original maps to much more accurately resemble their namesake. www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

Been playing a ton of "The Talos Principle 2" lately & it's been absolutely brilliant. You might even say it's........."Serious"

A couple of months ago I finally decided to try the free trial of that critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy XIV, you know the one that comes with 2 award winning expansions with no restrictions on playtime? I've been obsessed with it ever since, here's some pics of my Warrior of Light.

So, The Game Awards 2024. #2 Then there's Turok Origins. The reveal trailer did not fill me with confidence, it looked as if it was taking more inspiration from the 2008 360/PS3 game (which I only played the demo & that conviced me to not buy the full game) as apposed to the Iguana originals.

So, The Game Awards 2024. #1 Biggest pleasant surprise for me was absolutely the announcement of an Okami sequel directed by Hideki Kamiya, which reminds me I should revisit Okami one of these days, it's probably been almost 20 years since I last played it.

Always a strange experience signing up for a new social media account, for me at least. How should I commemerate this occasion? .....you know, it was really funny to see people genuinely expecting Valve to announce Half-Life 3 at The Game Awards, did people forget how HL:Alyx was revealed?