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Doom and Doom II get a ‘definitive’ re-release that’s packed with upgrades (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by jay@mbin.zerojay.com to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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If you own either game already, you’ll get it for free.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What prompted this - did they find a machine that wouldn't run it??

(Im joking, not really asking)

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They wanted to make it closed source again

[–] jay@mbin.zerojay.com 1 points 3 months ago

It's a whole new engine not based on the open sourced version so... yeah, they can do that.