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"It's like a classic piece of art" Doom: The Dark Ages' director on revisiting the original boomer shooter for inspiration

The team behind Doom: The Dark Ages went all the way back to the original game to find inspiration for the latest entry in the series.

I think if one day, humanity completely died out for one reason or another, there's one thing that would persist long after we're gone: Doom. Hopefully I don't need to remind you that the original Doom is playable on everything - yes, everything - meaning that if aliens came and found the remains of our civilization, they'd honestly have a pretty high chance of being able to play it. It's a classic for a reason! So much so that id Software even went back to it for the newest entry in the series, Doom: The Dark Ages, and in a recent interview with Edge Magazine (via GamesRadar), director Hugo Martin shares what it was like revisiting the classic shooter.

"It's like a classic piece of art. It's like a painter going to a museum and studying the Norman Rockwell painting he's already studied 50 times," Martin explained. "Every time you look at it, you learn something new." On this particular occasion, the new thing that the team at id Software noticed was how slow enemy projectiles are - modern Doom often has you quickly dodging fast approaching attacks, but Martin notes that in the original game, "the projectiles start to collect in the world, and they create this maze that the player has to weave through."

Martin went on to talk about how that maze feeling is something they tried to capture in The Dark Ages as opposed to Eternal's fast moving bullets, saying that in that game, "there's a lot of activity along the [vertical] Y-axis, but [in The Dark Ages] it felt improved to focus the threats and the targets along the horizon line. It's a movement shooter still, but the movement is more about what’s happening along the X-axis."

The original Doom obviously isn't a surprising source of inspiration, but interestingly, it actually took an unexpected influence from a classic Batman comic. Doom: The Dark Ages is currently set to be released this coming May 15 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

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What was it like shooting The Fantastic Four, according to John Malkovich? "Very odd" because "nothing is really there except giant screens and 18 epic cranes"

John Malkovich is set to appear in a still unnamed role in the upcoming Fantastic Four film, and he's shared what his experience of shooting it was like.

The thing about the MCU, is that we all know it's green screens all the way down, but there's still something about it that manages to bring in some big name stars (it's probably money, or in Harrison Ford's case, definitely money). Later this summer we'll be seeing the latest pedigree actor take part in the ever expanding film universe, John Malkovich, in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Right now it's still not clear what role he's playing, though you can catch a glimpse at him in the film's first trailer. And in a recent interview with Variety, the actor quite candidly shared what it was like shooting the project, which sounded like a pretty good time for him.

"It was a good experience. I liked the cast. It was fun. It was interesting," Malkovich expressed, though he went on to say that, "of course, it’s a very odd experience because nothing is really there except giant screens and 18 epic cranes. It’s quite odd in that way, but it was fun. The cast was fun. We’ll see how it goes." To be fair, this third attempt at The Fantastic Four does look like more of an actual film with real texture to it compared to recent MCU entries, with what even looks like actual sets, but I'm sure that plenty of green screens were involved too.

One thing Malkovich can't say, though, is whether he'll be in any more Marvel movies. When asked about it he simply expressed, "We’ll see. I really don’t know. I got a sweatshirt from [director] Matt [Shakman] a few weeks ago with a nice note, but I haven’t spoken to him not long ago about how it’s going. I’m pretty sure he’s deep into editing."

The Fantastic Four: First Steps releases in cinemas July 25, later this year.

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Promise Mascot Agency has a solution for the open world genre's most heinous crime

This week, we're highlighting the best demos you can play during Steam Next Fest, which runs from February 24th until March 3rd. We call this Wishlisted.

The demo for Kaizen's Promise Mascot Agency throws a lot of ideas you, but at its heart, it's just a game about being a good boss.

Stripped back, it's part open world driving game, part business management. You pull up in the cursed town of Kaso-Machi, a broke yakuza with a sentient severed digit hanging out in the back of your grimy pickup truck.

You're here to make scratch helping the locals, so you'll need to recruit mascot creatures to hire out for jobs. They're a hopeless bunch, possessing all the neurotic animism you'd expect from distinctly 21st century yōkai. You're soon negotiating salaries and benefits with a giant block of perpetually weeping tofu. Then, enlisting the help of a traffic safety superhero to help out when jobs go south.

The tofu gets stuck in a door on their first job. To help out on the next, I pack them a lunch comprising a wilted hamburger from a vending machine. The tutorial missions dry up, so I open the map. It takes a moment to realise what I'm looking at. Or, rather, what I'm not.

Not a nagging map marker in sight, despite a menu telling me there are several tasks available. Promise Mascot Agency will only mark the activities available on your map if you explicity tell it to. You ask Pinky for hint, and choose the type of activity you fancy, whether that's recruiting new mascots, finding new jobs, or hiring more heroes. Once you ask - and only then - the game adds a pin showing where to find that type of task.

This is - if I'm using my academic ludology terms correctly - the good shit. An adrenaline shot for decision paralysis. A Marie Kondolance for our era's inescapable hellscape of cluttered landscapes. I have stared deep into the skittish eyes of the chattering mind monkey and sealed his lips together with Gorilla Glue, but not before heightmogging him with the gorilla on the label. Thank you, Promise Mascot Agency.

There's plenty more to love here. The town is run down and dusky, but the landscape flows in such a way that you can see the streetlights shoal together from a distance. Driving in from the outskirts feels like it does when you catch a taxi in from an airport; the rising swell of life and lights and noise despite a ghostly ambience. Dreamy, dark pop slows to a warped cassette crawl when you pause. I collect floating coins that each tell tiny stories with their confirmation pop ups. A wallet containing a shopping list with nothing crossed off. A thousand yen note used a bookmark. When I crash the car my DualSense speaker starts yelling a cartoonish, clattering racket at me.

A pack of ghostly foxes escape from a mechanic's garage while I'm chatting to him. I chase them for truck upgrades. The first gives me a cannon that lets me shoot Pinky at the remaining foxes. You can't leave your truck, which is tiny bit awkward in certain spots, but you can bunny hop and boost over difficult terrain. Your truck is invulnerable and I wholly believe the game wants you to drive like an idiot.

I think the tofu crying all the time is a reference to how irritating it is to drain tofu so you can grill it properly, although its mainly used here to humiliate the poor creature. Alongside the exploration, social, and management aspects, the other part of Promise Mascot Agency is card battles that take place when your mascots run into trouble on their jobs. They look like this:

The demo is unfortunately timed, and I didn't get much of a chance to see how much depth the card game has, but the basic idea is that you use the cards of the heroes you've recruited to damage whatever obstacle you're up against like a boss battle. Run out of actions before you win, and you lose. It's perhaps the game's weakest aspect but again, I barely scratched the surface. Still, what's here is just as beautifully odd and oddly beautiful as you'd expect from Kaizen. It's due out this year, and I will make that tofu smile if it kills me.

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