Why it matters: After a decade of robust growth from 2011 to 2021, the gaming industry has hit a plateau, creating a climate of caution and reduced investment. However, amidst this stagnation ...

Developed by ading2210, a self-described “high school student with an interest in programming, web development, and cybersecurity,” the Doom PDF project utilizes the file format’s inherent ...

As Strange embarks on a mission to become the first Sorcerer Supreme of Asgard, and Sam Wilson’s Captain America leads a team of heroes and villains to overthrow Emperor Doom, the self ...

Here at Ars, we're suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running on everything from CAPTCHA robot checks and Windows' notepad.exe to AI hallucinations and fluorescing gut bacteria.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A crafty high-schooler was able to do something I didn’t think was possible: They got Doom running inside a PDF file. Seriously. And weirdly ...

We don't know where, or even if, the inherent need to port seminal shooter DOOM to the most unlikely hardware imaginable will ever cease. In any case, a high school student has somehow managed to ...

In the latest edition of “can it run Doom?” a high school student has discovered a way to port the classic PC game to a PDF file. Although PDF documents are known to simply host text and ...

A high school student found a way to run the classic PC game Doom from within a PDF file by leveraging the format's support for JavaScript and the Chromium browser engine.

This game was the king of grunge horror. I loved every moment of it. (Image credit: 2K Games) A fascinating choice I saw posted was The Darkness.A 2007 horror first-person shooter, it was one of ...

Years ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella decided to buy some pricey game studios to try to prop up the tech giant's gaming division. Now, the company is saying goodbye to more staff.

The big picture: Doom, the original first-person shooter for DOS by id Software, was released in 1993. Despite being over 30 years old, the game continues to inspire resourceful (and somewhat ...

There is a race to see who can bend the PDF file format to do the most impressive thing. Considering the more-than-30-year-old shooter, Doom, has been ported to many unexpected places, it was ...