The very first Doom came out in 1993, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to improve it. A new enhanced edition of the first two Doom games is coming to Steam, and it will combine the two games into one and tack on a new episode.
The store listing, which lays out the improvements, was spotted by Wario64 on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday. It’s described as the “definitive” way to experience the two games, with improvements like cross-platform deathmatch and co-op for up to 16 players, mod support, and performance up to 4K.
One of the more surprising additions here is the new campaign. “Legacy of Rust” was created by Doom makers id Software, MachineGames, and Nightdive Studios, which worked with id on the Doom 64 port. It’s the first official episode to introduce new demons and weapons across 16 maps. The enhanced editions will feature every other episode and map pack — including a new map pack for deathmatch — so players can play through 187 mission maps and 43 deathmatch ones.
The games have also been made more accessible, with a new, more legible font, high-contrast mode, and text-to-speech. It’s also been translated into eight more languages: Mexican Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
This discovery comes ahead of QuakeCon 2024, which started Thursda,y but properly kicks off this weekend. This is just the tip of the iceberg for the show’s reveals, which usually include news and updates from various ZeniMax Media brands. Since the Steam store page doesn’t have a release date, and there hasn’t been an official announcement from the developers, we can assume this will be one of the highlights from the convention.
Meanwhile, id Software has been continuing to add to the storied Doom franchise, with Doom Eternal in 2020, two DLC chapters, supported multiplayer modes, and the upcoming Doom: The Dark Ages, which was announced at this year’s Xbox Games Showcase. That also hasn’t stopped development on even more remasters and enhanced versions of the early Doom entries, many of which have also had new content. Doom 64 from 2020 featured The Lost Levels DLC, which added new missions.
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
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The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”