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Games: Doom, Quake, and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 11, 2022

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Voxel Doom brings voxel goodness to the original DOOM

=> ↺ Voxel Doom brings voxel goodness to the original DOOM

I am ashamed to admit that I never played much of the original DOOM when it came out or in the decades since. When I saw the Voxel Doom project I downloaded it and decided to finally give the old classic an honest try.

The Starlight Children's Foundation Bundle has a really odd selection

=> ↺ The Starlight Children's Foundation Bundle has a really odd selection

Humble recently launched the Starlight Children's Foundation Bundle and it's a thoroughly odd selection but some of you might want to check it out. As usual I'll list the Deck Verified rating for Steam Deck and any notes on Linux Native or ProtonDB compatibility levels.

Quake 1 port to Apple Watch

=> ↺ Quake 1 port to Apple Watch

Vyzmazal managed to get Quake running on an Apple Watch Series 5 which, while a few generations old now, still packs a processor that’s more than capable of running the game through a software renderer at around 60 fps at a respectable resolution of 640x480, and successfully tested at up to 1024x768, although with a reduced frame rate.

The Chess World Is Absolutely Losing It Over Cheating Allegations After Massive Upset

=> ↺ The Chess World Is Absolutely Losing It Over Cheating Allegations After Massive Upset

The chess world has been rocked by online allegations of cheating after a top chess grandmaster was toppled by a relative newcomer this week in a major high stakes tournament in St. Louis.
31-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen—rated the top player in the world by the International Chess Federation (FIDE)—abruptly withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis after a third-round defeat by Hans Niemann, a young chess prodigy from the United States.
Soon after his loss, Carlsen posted a cryptic tweet featuring a speech by football manager Jose Mourinho. "I prefer not to speak,” Mourinho said in the 2020 video. “If I speak I am in big trouble…and I don't want to be in big trouble."

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