Sep 07

Official Cacodemon and Pain Elemental Plushes: Toys from the Doom Old Days

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On one hand, many of the fans of the original Doom games are too old to be playing with plushies. On the other hand, some kids might be find these toys too freaky. So really, these are for teenagers who may or may not have played Doom.

doom cacodemon plush by bethesda

Then again, the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are are far scarier than the Cacodemon plush. Heck, Suezo from Monster Rancher is faaaar scarier than these two.

doom pain elemental plush by bethesda

Fight your way to Bethesda’s online store to order the Cacodemon and the Pain Elemental plushies. Each toy costs $15 (USD) and is about 7″ tall. What would really make everyone’s Halloween is if Atlus released plushies of the Shin Megami Tensei demons.

[via Joystiq]

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Mar 19

Doom 2 Integrated Into Half-Life 2 Through gmDoom Mod Is Awesome

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First-person shooters lately have been trying their absolute best to either make their games as visually appealing as possible by creating extremely realistic graphics or by making them stylized. But there’s something about old-school first-person shooter games that even though they look OK by today’s standards, you can certainly enjoy their unique experience. A new mod will soon be released that brings the feel of an old-school FPS to modern-day games.

The mod is called gmDoom and contains a partial source port of Doom that brings its HUD, sights, sounds and weapons into Half Life 2. The results of which is a mashup that any old-school first-person shooter could certainly appreciate. The author of the mod GhorsHammer says this mod will be available through Steam Workshop once all of its bugs have been squashed, which they say should only take a few days. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Grand Theft Auto IV Mod Brings Toy Story’s Woody, Buzz To Liberty City, PS4 Live Stream Drew 8 Million Viewers On Ustream,

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