Working with soundblocking lines and sound environments in (Z)Doom was aways a pain and more like "try and error" instead of planning what monsters can hear when and where. boris (trivia: some people still know him as Tarin, one of the most famous and oldest members in the community) has recently released and updated his DoomBuilder 2 plugin Sound Propagation Mode which finally makes these tasks much easier. It visualises the way sound travels through a map and also shows what sectors are affected by a sound environment setting. For more information just check the official thread over at ZDoom.org

One of the greatest achievements in the Doom history was definitely TeamTNT's Icarus project. 32 maps in the same quality and style as we already know from Final Doom. Good things come to those who wait: Almost 2 decades after it's release, the mapper Eternal released a map pack called Icar2015 which can definitely be considered as spiritual successor - just with a bit more quality. The project has been posted by entryway and can be found here (as well as on /idgames). For some nostalgic retro feeling, grab the file and play it, this is gread Doomin'!

For those of you who have no idea what's WolfenDoom: Blade of Agony is all about, Icarus Lives has prepared a short and interesting preview video at his Youtube Channel - but feel free to be lazy and just watch it directly below. It gives a good overview of the mod itself and also delivers some very interesting feedback from a player's point of view who isn't active in the community itself which gives it a very neutral perspective. Thanks man for doing this, it's a great help for us.

Well, it's not worse as the title might suspect but actually id software seemed to have rushed the releases of Doom and Doom 2 in the early 90's. But the community doesn't forget nor do they forgive. A few members from the Doomworld community started a small project called the Doom 2 Minor Sprite Fixing Project which isn't that minor anymore being in progress for 4 years now. So what's the deal with it? Next to little problems like missing or transparent pixels on sprites and textures, people also started to improve the offsets for monsters (one famous example is the dancing Michael-Jackson revenant) and simply mirroring zombie sprites making them swap their weapons from one side to the other. A lot of things have already been resolved and this project is a "autoload" in my eyes if you play regular Doom. Take a look and give it a shot - or simply play it the way it was meant to look.

Invernovasion is a project by The_SloVinator, started back in April of 2018 Its  aim was to make an atmospheric wad with environmental story-telling, as well as implement plot & maps that connect each other via exits/starts. It has custom stuff from names of the maps to graphics, like intermission background, to custom ending text & of course music and feels very 1994'ish in a positive way. The author recomennds to read the included text files so I suggest doing so as well :) Have fun with this interesting trip to the past.

Back in the day I don't think people would have really gone for this whole "corporation as state" thing, but I guess back in the day they didn't have to deal with portals to hell ripping our dimension apart. When push comes to shove, if the throne is empty, somebody's going to go and sit on it. Just happened 200 years ago that it was the UAC. They call themselves a commonwealth now, their CEO a president, their shareholders are the public. All told they've done a decent job putting the pieces back together.

This is how the whole Interstellar Enforcer story starts. ReformedJoe has just uploaded a gameplay trailer of his wip-project and it's really nice looking stuff he got there. What is Interstellar Enforcer? In a nutshell, it is a mission based GZDOOM TC for DOOM II. Take doom, mix in a dose of unreal and turok, add a splash of metroid and maybe a little bit of system shock 2 and you'll not be far from the target. You play as an officer of the Interstellar Enforcement Patrol, tasked with policing the obscure fringes of humanities bustling space empire in the future of the DOOM II timeline. You generally do this by shooting things.