{"id":105357,"date":"2019-12-11T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/355561"},"modified":"2019-12-11T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:45:00","slug":"bethesda-updating-doom-1-2-to-include-select-mods-like-john-romeros-sigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/11\/bethesda-updating-doom-1-2-to-include-select-mods-like-john-romeros-sigil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda updating Doom 1, 2 to include select mods like John Romero&#8217;s Sigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Doom<\/em> co-creator John Romero\u2019s unofficial fifth episode for the original <em>Doom<\/em>, released on PC as a free megawad add-on called <em>Sigil<\/em> earlier this year, is headed to console versions of the game via an official patch announced during a Bethesda stream today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigil<\/em> itself was <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/332606\/John_Romero_plans_Doom_spiritual_successor_in_the_form_of_a_free_Doom_Megawad.php\">announced late last year<\/a>&nbsp;as an unofficial, spiritual successor to id Software\u2019s original <em>Doom<\/em>, though neither id Software nor Bethesda and id parent company&nbsp;ZeniMax were in any way affiliated with the mod\u2019s creation, making this official nod of support that much more interesting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Much like other megawad mods, the PC version of <em>Sigil<\/em> requires a registered copy of the original <em>Doom<\/em>, a 1993 release, to play and was given away as a free add-on earlier this year, though Romero did sell collectors kits of art, the soundtrack, and a flashdrive containing the mod around the time it was first announced.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigil<\/em>\u2019s console debut comes alongside two other mods\u2014<em>TnT Evilution<\/em> and<em> The Plutonia Experiment<\/em>\u2014that will all be featured in an add-on menu set to be added to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch versions of <em>Doom 1<\/em> and 2 at some point in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doom co-creator John Romero\u2019s unofficial fifth episode for the original Doom, released on PC as a free megawad add-on called Sigil earlier this year, is headed to console versions of the game via an official patch announced during a Bethesda stream today. Sigil itself was announced late last year&nbsp;as an unofficial, spiritual successor to id [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}