Technology
A legendary studio is losing a lot of staff.
Technology
It will be directed by Hugo Martin, who also directed Doom Eternal and Doom: The Dark Ages. “It’ll be some time before we’re ready to share more but we can’t wait for you to see what we’re working on,” id says. Following the major layoffs affecting id in July, my colleague Tom Warren reported that the studio was “in the early stages of a new Doom game.” [Media: https://twitter.com/idSoftware/status/2120970306227495319]
Science & Climate
The European Space Agency’s OPS-SAT PRETTY wasn’t designed to understand and carry out spoken voice commands until Tanagra Space uploaded new software that enabled it to launch the classic shooter after detecting a radio transmission. It isn’t the first satellite to play DOOM, but receiving voice commands was the real achievement here anyway. [Link: First Voice Command of a Satellite Achieved Through ESA’s OPS-SAT Space Lab | https://tanagraspace.com/press/first-voice-command-of-a-satellite/ | Tanagra Space]