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Doom was packed with high-tech innovations. It pioneered multiplayer gaming over networks, online distribution and an open architecture that promoted user modifications. Today video games are a $7 billion industry, and most of them rip off Carmack's work in one form or another. The military used multiplayer Doom...
The original Doom told a rather disposable story about a space Marine posted to some kind of high-powered research facility on Mars. An experiment goes wrong, yada yada yada, and a portal to hell opens, flooding the station with demons, which the player must dispatch with an assortment of...
For the past six months, Silicon Valley has been abuzz with the prospect of the first blockbuster public offering in the tech sector since the dotcom crash: the IPO of search-engine giant Google, expected this month. But Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem to be doing their...
Yet this moment did not just flash by. Gazing into the darkness, I felt enveloped in nature’s immense power and my presence vanished in its embrace. It was silly even at the time, but I could not help but imagine the consequences of my car breaking down...
Then at once the road reappeared. Beep…beep! My phone lit up. It has found a faint signal—just one bar, but enough to call home. As I parked to talk with my mum, I kept the engine running and left the headlights on. I told...