Only a few days ago, the Annual Cacowards have been celebrated over at Doomworld.com and to be honest, this years winners are simply amazing - even the "Runner up"s are of a tremendous quality that I'd consider 2017 one of the greatest modding years in Doom history. Unfortunately, Blade of Agony Chapter 2 wasn't mentioned in this year's edition but regarding the competitors we can actually live with it and will focus on making Chapter 3 even better for 2018. Nevermind, this is what one of the authors says: "2017 has come and gone, and with it comes another installment of Doomworld's Cacowards. Doom is now twenty-four years old and has successfully weathered the release of its technologically superior progeny; in fact, I'm certain that public interest has only increased since Doom 2016's release the previous year. If anything had a chance of doing any damage to its longevity, it would have been the end of development on ZDoom. Thankfully, developers were more than prepared to pick things up, and the torch continues to burn in QZDoom and GZDoom." Read the rest of the article in the official page at Doomworld.com.

It's that time of the year again: The Annual Cacowards have been announced and I want to congrat everyone involved in winning one of these but also to those "Runners up" and the staff pronouncing the winners and writing the articles. Sometimes I am surprised how many releases I have missed even though being an active member myself. You can check the whole article at the Doomworld page. Congrats to the community, I am glad we are still alive!

2021 just so happens to be the year of the Ox, and we were definitely worked like oxen, doing our level best to keep pace with the year’s prodigious output, bringing many of us to sometimes jokingly say: Stop giving us so much good stuff to play! Coming through at higher volume than crypto rug pulls, amazing maps have been thrown at us left, right, and center since December 11, 2020. And thus, we’ve added two more big awards spots to accommodate such a massively stacked year, and not just that- we’ve also recognized 21 more WADs just for 2021.

Porting other games to the Doom engine (or actually to it's derivated sourceports) is something, people already do for a while now. Doing it as close as possible to the original game engine is a difficult task though. If you are as old as I am (34 years now), you might still remember the good old times when egoshooters had pixels as huge as thumbs and only 16 colors to help your imagination killing demons and skeletons - just as in Catacomb Abyss, the grandfather of Doom. The modder inferion seems to be my age, for what other reason should someone consider porting the game to GZDoom? He did a very good job, it's not perfekt yet but I had that good old feeling when playing the project, listening to the pc speaker sounds and blasting my way through the secret walls again - just as I did 28 years ago... hell I am old. Keep up the good work and please improve the little flaws before you continue with the next installment ;)