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‘Doom’ Co-Creator John Romero Announces FREE Spiritual Successor In ‘SIGIL’

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In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 25 years, there’s this little game called Doom. It was created by id Software. John Romero was one of the main guys behind it, having designed many of the levels for the game, as well as popularizing multiplayer deathmatches. For the past couple of days, Romero has been teasing something related to the number five. Many assumed that it was an entirely new episode for the original Doom (as there were four episodes, if you included Ultimate Doom).

In fact, they were right.

SIGIL is a free megawad for the original Doom, and is a spiritual successor to the fourth episode of Doom, and picks up where the original left off. It contains nine singleplayer and nine deathmatch levels, and will be released in mid-February 2019, and requires that players own the original 1993 registered version of Doom in order to play.

In addition to the free megawad, there will be two limited edition fan boxes created by Limited Run Games for those hardcore fans. The boxes feature music by metal guitar legend Buckethead, including a custom song written expressly for SIGIL, and cover art by Christopher Lovell. The free megawad does not ship with either of those goodies.

Happy Doom day!

Writer/Artist/Gamer from the Great White North. I try not to be boring.

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Stephen King, James Wan & Osgood Perkins Horror Movie ‘The Monkey’ Wraps Filming; Meet the Cast

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Three horror powerhouses are coming together for The Monkey, an adaptation of the Stephen King story that’s being produced by James Wan and directed by Osgood Perkins.

The Monkey is a short horror story that appeared in Skeleton Crew, a 1985 collection that also featured The Mist, The Jaunt, The Raft, Survivor Type, The Reach, and more.

Deadline reports today that filming on The Monkey has wrapped, and the website has revealed the full cast for the upcoming horror movie. Read on for everything you need to know.

Theo James (The White Lotus) stars alongside Tatiana Maslany (SheHulkAttorney at Law), Elijah Wood (Maniac), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek).

Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel, the upcoming Longlegs) wrote the screenplay for the feature film adaptation and he also directed the upcoming movie.

“In The Monkey, when twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

“But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.”

James Wan is producing with Atomic Monster partner Michael Clear (M3GAN), and C2 Motion Picture Group’s Jason Cloth (Joker) and Dave Caplan (Babylon).

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Elijah Wood in ‘Maniac’

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