Developers are continuing in their quest to make the original Doom playable on every object to ever exist, and it can now be played on Windows' Notepad app.

As reported by The Escapist, developer Sam Chiet has created a fully operable version of Doom in a completely unmodified version of text editor Notepad.

Chiet posted a clip of the game running on his Twitter (below) and his YouTube page, promising that he'll publicly release the Notepad version of the classic FPS soon. "It'll take some work to polish NotepadDoom into something releasable, but it'll almost certainly happen over the next couple days," he said in a follow-up tweet.

i got DOOM running inside Notepad at 60fps pic.twitter.com/EQFuRu4N0r

— Samperson (Crime Arc) (@SamNChiet) October 9, 2022

It joins the long list of bizarre ways to play Doom nearly 30 years after the game was first released, with someone recently making the game playable in, well, Doom. YouTube user kgsws uploaded a video of himself modding the game into itself, before showing actual gameplay of him playing Doom within Doom on PC.

Other recent examples include playing Doom on a McDonald's kiosk, on Twitter, and even a pregnancy test, joining a much longer list that includes a LEGO brick, an ATM, a potato-powered calculator, a treadmill, and more.

For those looking for a more modern and, dare we say, normal way to play Doom, the latest game in the franchise, Doom Eternal, would be a good choice. In our 9/10 review, IGN said: "Whether you're a new Doom fan or a veteran one, Doom Eternal is bound to delight & entertain you. It's gloriously fun."

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Atlus has announced that a Persona 5 Royal cooperative card game is being developed in partnership with Pandasaurus Games.

Century: Eastern Wonders and Foundations of Rome designer Emerson Matsuuchi is creating the game, and is targeting a Q4 2023 release date. While this could mean anywhere from October to December next year, a graphic on the announcement post explicitly states it will arrive on October 21.

"Players will take on the roles of their favourite Phantom Thieves and fight to change the world in this cooperative card-based strategy game," said Matsuuchi. Little else about the game was revealed, but it will likely be a standalone release instead of a collectible product given the company's roots in board game products.

It will seemingly let players explore and interact with various locations from the game, including at the very least its supernatural side, according to co-owner of Pandasaurus Games Nathan McNair. "As a diehard fan of Persona 5 Royal, I cannot wait to bring the Palaces, Velvet Room, and world of Persona 5 Royal onto tabletops everywhere in 2023," he said.

Despite Persona 5 Royal initially being released in 2020 (and Persona 5 being released in 2016), the game has recently grown in popularity again thanks to its imminent release on Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC on October 21.

Its predecessors are on the way too, albeit a little further out, as Atlus recently announced that Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch, and PC on January 19, 2023.

In our 10/10 review of the video game, IGN said: "Persona 5 Royal takes an all-time great JRPG and makes it even greater. Going above and beyond a re-release or a remaster, almost everything has been expanded and improved with an entire game’s worth of new content and improvements."

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Lara Craft Go developer Square Enix Montréal has been rebranded as Onoma following its acquisition by Embracer Group earlier this year.

As reported by GI.biz, a post on the developer's new website explained that "Onoma is Greek for name and names offer endless possibilities", symbolising that players "can be anyone, achieve anything, and go anywhere".

The post continued: "As game makers, we are inventors of new worlds, of new possibilities. Names are the beginning of stories - of our story as individuals and as a community. Stories are invitations to other worlds where the unknown, the impossible, and the magical become reality.

"At Onoma, we are creators, inventors, and storytellers, and the experiences and ideas that we bring to life connect us to each other and to players."

The rebrand marks the beginning of a new chapter for Onoma, which was acquired from Square Enix alongside Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montréal back in August.

It's not the only change being made by Embracer following its $300 million purchase of the three studios, however, as it's also it's also eyeing new "sequels, remakes, remasters, and spin-offs" from their library of games which includes Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and Thief.

It's shown particular interest so far in the long dormant Legacy of Kain franchise, with Crystal Dynamics asking fans earlier in October if they'd like to see a new entry.

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DC's Titans will return to HBO Max for its fourth season on Thursday, November 3, and a new teaser trailer features a bloody ritual that looks anything but good news.

Season 4 of Titans will have a two-episode premiere on November 3, and new episodes will be released weekly until December 1. There will then be a mid-season break and six new episodes will conclude the season later in 2023.

azarath. metrion. zinthos.

part 1 of season 4 premieres november 3rd on @hbomax. #DCTitans pic.twitter.com/ocIggEeRDL

— DC Titans @ NYCC (@DCTitans) October 9, 2022

The new teaser doesn't give us much, but it does feature the previously mentioned bloody ritual and a chant that uses the words "Azarath, Metrion, and Zenthos." These words have been used by Raven in the past to summon her dark powers and abilities, and Azarath itself is a parallel world and her birthplace.

HBO Max also released new images for Doom Patrol's fourth season, and it includes a look at the supersuit for Ryan Potter's Beast Boy, Mother Mayhem, Brother Blood, and Jinx.

Titans' fourth season was officially announced in October 2021 at DC FanDome, just before its third season came to a close.

Titans is a live-action series that follows a young group of superheroes that form the Teen Titans as they work to save Gotham City and other locations from those who wish to do them harm.

In our review of the premiere of Titans' third season, we said, "the first three episodes of Titans might be the best yet, but that all depends on what you enjoy about the series. This is very much a story of two Robins and the man who raised them, and in that way it feels powerful and intimate."

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DC's Titans will return to HBO Max for its fourth season on Thursday, November 3, and a new teaser trailer features a bloody ritual that looks anything but good news.

Season 4 of Titans will have a two-episode premiere on November 3, and new episodes will be released weekly until December 1. There will then be a mid-season break and six new episodes will conclude the season later in 2023.

azarath. metrion. zinthos.

part 1 of season 4 premieres november 3rd on @hbomax. #DCTitans pic.twitter.com/ocIggEeRDL

— DC Titans @ NYCC (@DCTitans) October 9, 2022

The new teaser doesn't give us much, but it does feature the previously mentioned bloody ritual and a chant that uses the words "Azarath, Metrion, and Zenthos." These words have been used by Raven in the past to summon her dark powers and abilities, and Azarath itself is a parallel world and her birthplace.

HBO Max also released new images for Doom Patrol's fourth season, and it includes a look at the supersuit for Ryan Potter's Beast Boy, Mother Mayhem, Brother Blood, and Jinx.

Titans' fourth season was officially announced in October 2021 at DC FanDome, just before its third season came to a close.

Titans is a live-action series that follows a young group of superheroes that form the Teen Titans as they work to save Gotham City and other locations from those who wish to do them harm.

In our review of the premiere of Titans' third season, we said, "the first three episodes of Titans might be the best yet, but that all depends on what you enjoy about the series. This is very much a story of two Robins and the man who raised them, and in that way it feels powerful and intimate."

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The first part of the fourth season of DC's Doom Patrol will return to HBO Max on Thursday, December 8, and a new trailer features a surprisingly deadly and... musical bunch of creatures.

December 8 will see the first two episodes of Doom Patrol premiere on HBO Max, and a new episode will be released each week until January 5, 2023. There will then be a mid-season break, and six more episodes will arrive later in 2023.

Daddy’s home!

Hold onto your butts because #DoomPatrol Season 4, Part 1 premieres December 8, only on @hbomax. pic.twitter.com/9DsCaGHYlU

— Doom Patrol @ NYCC (@DCDoomPatrol) October 9, 2022

Doom Patrol follows a group of people who all "suffered a horrible accident that gave them superhuman abilities, but also left them scarred and disfigured. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them."

This new season will open with "the team unexpectedly traveling to the future to find an unwelcome surprise. Faced with their imminent demise, the Doom Patrol must decide once and for all which is more important: their own happiness or the fate of the world?"

We chose Doom Patrol as one of our favorite comic book shows of 2021, and said that it is "is f***king fun. Full stop. Picking up right where its pandemic-shortened second season left off, Doom Patrol continues to be a real damned delight. While the team from the comics has been retconned and reimagined countless times over the years, it’s always been, at minimum, weird."

For more, check out our review of the Season 3 premiere of Doom Patrol and why the series helps make this a great time to be a fan of sci-fi TV.

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The first part of the fourth season of DC's Doom Patrol will return to HBO Max on Thursday, December 8, and a new trailer features a surprisingly deadly and... musical bunch of creatures.

December 8 will see the first two episodes of Doom Patrol premiere on HBO Max, and a new episode will be released each week until January 5, 2023. There will then be a mid-season break, and six more episodes will arrive later in 2023.

Daddy’s home!

Hold onto your butts because #DoomPatrol Season 4, Part 1 premieres December 8, only on @hbomax. pic.twitter.com/9DsCaGHYlU

— Doom Patrol @ NYCC (@DCDoomPatrol) October 9, 2022

Doom Patrol follows a group of people who all "suffered a horrible accident that gave them superhuman abilities, but also left them scarred and disfigured. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them."

This new season will open with "the team unexpectedly traveling to the future to find an unwelcome surprise. Faced with their imminent demise, the Doom Patrol must decide once and for all which is more important: their own happiness or the fate of the world?"

We chose Doom Patrol as one of our favorite comic book shows of 2021, and said that it is "is f***king fun. Full stop. Picking up right where its pandemic-shortened second season left off, Doom Patrol continues to be a real damned delight. While the team from the comics has been retconned and reimagined countless times over the years, it’s always been, at minimum, weird."

For more, check out our review of the Season 3 premiere of Doom Patrol and why the series helps make this a great time to be a fan of sci-fi TV.

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Arkane Studios has officially confirmed that Deathloop takes place in the future of the universe first built in the Dishonored games.

This confirmation comes by the way of Deathloop director and Arkane Lyon studio director Dinga Bakaba, who appeared on The Official Xbox Podcast alongside Arkane Austin studio director Harvey Smith.

Xbox's Jeff Rubenstein asked Bakaba about the rumors and hints that Deathloop is connected to this larger universe. While Rubenstein said he didn't have to confirm anything, Bakaba went above and beyond and not only confirmed that this was true, but he also discussed the thought process behind making it so.

"Not everyone has seen the same thing," Bakaba said of Deathloop. "Not everyone has heard the same song that you might have heard hidden somewhere. Not everyone has seen every room, et cetera, et cetera. So, it was nice to see the community peek at the little clues we did sprinkle everywhere that, yes, indeed, we envisioned Deathloop to be happening in the future after [Dishonored 2's standalone expansion] Death of the Outsider."

Bakaba said the team didn't want to make this connection too obvious and front-facing as it wanted Deathloop to have a story and identity that stood on its own, but that didn't mean it couldn't use the game to explore what would happen after the events of Death of the Outsider.

"As we were making Deathloop, we said, hey, [this story] could be one of the things that could happen after [Death of the Outsider.] So, we have a certain timeline to link that and there are a lot of clues, actually, in the game," Bakaba said. "There are some that are abused, one of them is really spoiler-y, so voila, but there are a lot of small things and some that were under people’s noses all the time, but people are just figuring it out."

One of these references can be seen on the shotgun known as the Heritage Rifle. This weapon has a logo on the side of it that couldn't be seen clearly until the recent Goldenloop update added "idle breaks where the character plays with his gun." Now, the logo can be identified as Dishonored's Dunwall Tower.

As Bakaba put it, these threads are like "this little scavenger hunt inside the scavenger hunt" that is Deathloop, and they are just waiting to be discovered if players look hard enough.

"We tried to see everything as an evolution, but each time they mentioned the past, either we were vague enough or we disguised in, I would say, natural ways the names," Bakaba said. "Like, they talk about the Motherland, and not about Tyvia, but you can definitely… once you know, you can unravel everything. And yes, it does make sense. So, it was nice for us to be imagining one of the futures of the Dishonored world and to have that make sense."

Even without knowing all of these references to a larger universe, we still awarded Deathloop a rare 10/10. In our Deathloop review, we said, "Its unique, high-concept ideas around time loops and non-linear investigation work are implemented with elegance, making its systems feel effortless to navigate, learn from, and ultimately master. A new high watermark for Arkane and developers of similar games to aspire to, Deathloop is a game like no other."

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Arkane Studios has officially confirmed that Deathloop takes place in the future of the universe first built in the Dishonored games.

This confirmation comes by the way of Deathloop director and Arkane Lyon studio director Dinga Bakaba, who appeared on The Official Xbox Podcast alongside Arkane Austin studio director Harvey Smith.

Xbox's Jeff Rubenstein asked Bakaba about the rumors and hints that Deathloop is connected to this larger universe. While Rubenstein said he didn't have to confirm anything, Bakaba went above and beyond and not only confirmed that this was true, but he also discussed the thought process behind making it so.

"Not everyone has seen the same thing," Bakaba said of Deathloop. "Not everyone has heard the same song that you might have heard hidden somewhere. Not everyone has seen every room, et cetera, et cetera. So, it was nice to see the community peek at the little clues we did sprinkle everywhere that, yes, indeed, we envisioned Deathloop to be happening in the future after [Dishonored 2's standalone expansion] Death of the Outsider."

Bakaba said the team didn't want to make this connection too obvious and front-facing as it wanted Deathloop to have a story and identity that stood on its own, but that didn't mean it couldn't use the game to explore what would happen after the events of Death of the Outsider.

"As we were making Deathloop, we said, hey, [this story] could be one of the things that could happen after [Death of the Outsider.] So, we have a certain timeline to link that and there are a lot of clues, actually, in the game," Bakaba said. "There are some that are abused, one of them is really spoiler-y, so voila, but there are a lot of small things and some that were under people’s noses all the time, but people are just figuring it out."

One of these references can be seen on the shotgun known as the Heritage Rifle. This weapon has a logo on the side of it that couldn't be seen clearly until the recent Goldenloop update added "idle breaks where the character plays with his gun." Now, the logo can be identified as Dishonored's Dunwall Tower.

As Bakaba put it, these threads are like "this little scavenger hunt inside the scavenger hunt" that is Deathloop, and they are just waiting to be discovered if players look hard enough.

"We tried to see everything as an evolution, but each time they mentioned the past, either we were vague enough or we disguised in, I would say, natural ways the names," Bakaba said. "Like, they talk about the Motherland, and not about Tyvia, but you can definitely… once you know, you can unravel everything. And yes, it does make sense. So, it was nice for us to be imagining one of the futures of the Dishonored world and to have that make sense."

Even without knowing all of these references to a larger universe, we still awarded Deathloop a rare 10/10. In our Deathloop review, we said, "Its unique, high-concept ideas around time loops and non-linear investigation work are implemented with elegance, making its systems feel effortless to navigate, learn from, and ultimately master. A new high watermark for Arkane and developers of similar games to aspire to, Deathloop is a game like no other."

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Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match has officially been announced for 2023 and it will see Joel McHale returning as the voice of Johnny Cage.

The news was announced during the New York Comic Con panel for Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind, and arrived the same day that Mortal Kombat is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Series producer Rick Morales was on hand to confirm that Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match will be the fourth entry in the animated film series.

No further details were given for this new Legends film, but it obviously looks to put a big focus on McHale's Johnny Cage as his name is in the title.

McHale first voiced Johnny Cage in 2020's Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge and returned for another round in 2021's Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms. He was absent from Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind, but will once again lend his voice to the character in this new film.

Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind was released today, October 8, and follows Kano on a "brutal journey to take over Earthrealm." To do so, however, he will have to face off against Kenshi and Kuai Liang.

In our Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind review, we said it is "an interesting effort to illustrate more of Kenshi’s past, but it muddies its own plot. It's a color-by-numbers apocalyptic thriller with a shiny new Mortal Kombat paint job. Some of Kenshi's story beats are satisfying, and it's refreshing to see a character that doesn't get much screen time shine for a bit."

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