Continuing my trend of blogging about game announcements that interest me, I’m going to showcase that the official DOOM Facebook page has posted this new banner image stating that there will be a worldwide gameplay reveal for a new Doom title on June 14th at Bethesda’s E3 conference.
At last, we’ve received some kind of news about what things are going on at Bethesda Softworks with regards to them, the Zenimax subsidiaries, and the IPs owned by the company and its subsidiaries that BethSoft will act as publisher for. Honestly, this game as a hit in the dark to me, personally. I missed the prior teasers for Doom that were released over the last year or so, and since Doom hasn’t had an update to the series since Doom 3 in 2004, I never gave much thought to the possibility of there being a new entry to the series, a rebbot simply titled “DOOM”.
Anyway, there will be a new Doom entry to the game, and I’m definitely intrigued, though I wouldn’t say I’m as excited as I would be if the game were for Fallout or Bethesda, or even Assassin’s Creed, for that matter. Still, Doom is an iconic, and in some ways infamous game series from the nineties, and it was popular even up to the 2004 release of Doom 3, and it’s one that I personally enjoyed, although like the baby I am I tended to jump out of my seat a few times trying to play Doom 3. So, while I am not going to hold my breathe in anticipation for this game, or go out to buy it on the release day, it’s still exciting news, and it’s news about Bethesda’s first ever E3 conference that we’ve been waiting for information on. That’s important to hear, at least.
With a new Doom title being announced, which is sure to bring in money for id Software, Bethesda will be busy as a publisher at their special conference. There’s still time to see if we can hear things about other games that could be worked on that Bethesda is associated with, and this is only one item at what I’m sure is going to be a good, busy conference, and with the list of categories Bethesda registered under, for both current and last-generation consoles and numerous genres, it ought to be a good one.
I’m still crossing my fingers for a reveal for a Fallout title to be announced at E3, personally.
