Today marks the 25th anniversary of one of gaming’s most popular franchises:DOOM. To celebrate, Bethesda Softworks and id Software have released a new video looking back at the history of the franchise while also looking ahead to the series' next installment.
The video that Bethesda has released today looks back at all of the many violent moments thatDOOMfans are likely familiar with. From the originalDOOM’srelease back in 1993 to the most recent installment in the franchise,DOOM(2016), this hype trailer shows all kinds of the most gruesome demon kills that we have now seen from this series for nearly three decades. The video also mentions that “DOOMis Eternal” which is clearly meant to coincide withthe name of the upcoming entryDOOM Eternal.
In addition, Bethesda has announced the DOOM Slayers Club, a new program that will give you free rewards, events, and other content. If you join this club for yourself, you’ll receive the Zombie DOOM Slayer skin forDOOM Eternalupon release.
Most interesting of all of this news is that Bethesda is calling this upcoming year the “Year of DOOM.” This might just be meant as a way to honor theDOOMfranchise as a whole over the next 12 months, but I find it a bit more interesting sinceDOOM Eternalstill doesn’t have a release date or even a window for that matter. Maybe I’m reading too much into this whole “Year of DOOM” thing, but logic would seem to state thatDOOM Eternal’srelease would seem likely to fall in this upcoming yearlong window since, you know, it’d make sense to release a new entry in the series during this promotional period. Don’t take that as fact by any means, but maybe we’ll finally learn Eternal’srelease date soon.
WheneverDOOM Eternaldoes end up releasing, it’ll be coming to PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. you may watch the new 25th-anniversary video below if you’d like.
