Doom
Videogaming legend accused of theft
According to an amended lawsuit in the US, Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and the 'boy genius' behind the VR headset, Oculus Rift, did not invent anything. The updated lawsuit accuses videogame legend and the programming genius behind games such as Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, John Carmack, of stealing VR-related trade secrets to help Oculus.
Popular videogame software protection hacked
In the past few days, a hacker identifying himself as 'Voksi' claims to have broken the protection by using the demo for id Software's recent reincarnation of Doom. A similar technique was used for Rise of the Tomb Raider. Now that the first chink in Denuvo's armour has appeared, it would be interesting to see how many other PC games fall victim to the hackers.
Roman god to speed up your Doom
Videogame publisher, Bethesda Software has announced a new patch for Doom 4 with support for the Vulkan API. The company claims a performance increase of over 20 percent.