After a delay or two pushed the game back to a vague Q4 2020 release window, we now know exactly when John Romero’s latest project will hit our machines. Probably with a sock filled with coins.

We want to take a trip down the bloodiest lane of memories, soak up the carnage and revel in some of the most obscure trivia to ever be ripped and torn out of the various Doom games.So here we go, a list of trivia that you may or may not know about Doom, Easter eggs of devastation that you can memorise and whip out like a boomstick of knowledge at a party.

Developer Nerve had their work cut out for them on the post-launch support of the two games that shaped an entire genre. That work has definitely been done, as Doom 1 and Doom 2 are running better than ever now thanks to a new patch.

Can the blueprint for first-person shooters ever change? Maybe! At least that’s what John Romero, he of the luscious locks and an architect responsible for defining the genre with his work on Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, thinks.

The original Doom is now 25 years old. Id Software’s classic first-person shooter that rewrote the rulebook on mainstream success and controversy, having forged a path forward for the first-person shooter genre and still being a treasure of demonic proportions. Time to celebrate then, and what better way to do so than with a return to hell via some classic action and a host of newly designed levels from Doom’s co-daddy, John Romero?

It’s amazing to see a secret remain hidden for a week after launch, or in even rarer cases, months. What about a secret that stays secret a year after a game arrives? Maybe even a decade? Two decades? Well Doom II has been hiding a mystery for for almost 24 years, which has now finally been discovered.

The designer of DOOM himself, John Romero, has chipped in some thoughts regarding the issue of video game violence.

John Romero and Adrian Carmack are back together, working on a brand new old-school FPS. But please, temper your excitement.