A Petri Dish Of Human Brain Neurons Just Learned How To Play Doom

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.

A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages

A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of ...
New Scientist

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...
Cinema Blend

Does Doctor Doom's Promo Art Reveal His Backstory In The Avengers?

The image, shared by Nerd Talks on X, offers a striking look at Doctor Doom that’s anything but clean or triumphant. Instead of a heroic pose, it’s an extreme close-up of the baddie's iconic mask as ...
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Doom devs including John Romero respond to terminally ill fan spending his final days playing Doom: The Dark Ages: "You are not alone in that hospital room"

Action Games Original Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner reacts to Ubisoft's "brutal" cancellation of Sands of Time remake Third Person Shooters Helldivers 2 writer had 7 days to find face of the ...
IGN

Doom: The Dark Ages' Doom Slayer Gets a Hulking New Statue From Dark Horse

Doom fans will want to keep an eye out for the latest exclusive collectible from Dark Horse Direct. The company is releasing a new statue of the Doom Slayer from 2025's Doom: The Dark Ages in all his ...
Superhero Hype

Doctor Doom To Fight a Major Nonhuman Villain in Doom 2099: Rage of Doom

Marvel fans are all set to witness Doctor Doom vs Ultron in the new one-shot Doom 2099: Rage of Doom #1. Written by Frank Tieri in collaboration with Von Randal, the one-shot is a sequel to the former ...
IGN

Hytale Can Run Doom, Apparently, and It's Not Even Out Yet

Where can you play 1993 classic fps Doom? Loads of places. Cooking pots, smart photo frames, receipt printers (what), Wikipedia (what???), Alarmo, the wacky list goes on. And as of yesterday, that ...
TechSpot

Doom can now run as your Windows screen saver

TL;DR: Resourceful hackers have been running Doom, or ports of the original source code, on countless, most unlikely devices. Anything with a processor goes, from calculators to kitchen appliances, ...
Futurism

Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”

In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use of a bootstrap experimental setup consisting of a large polystyrene ball, a ...
TechSpot

DoomScroll lets you play thousands of Doom levels right in your browser

Oil up your chainsaw: It's hard to believe Doom is older than many of those playing it today. Fans have ported the game that just won't die to every conceivable platform – even some never meant for ...