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Doctor Doom is Marvel’s greatest comic book supervillain – potentially, depending on who you ask, their greatest character full-stop – and yet, if you took a look back on the past 20-or-so years of the House of Ideas’ on-screen history, you wouldn’t really know it.

Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) in Marvel’s AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY. | Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios

During a recent livestream to mark the launch ofDoom: The Dark AgesexpansionRevelations, id Software co-director Hugo Martin denied the studio has been left on life support following the latest round of mass layoff at Xbox.

Doom and Quake creator id Software insists it hasn’t been “nerfed into the ground and gutted” by Xbox, despite reports to the contrary.

Lex Luthor put together the Legion of Doom in DC Comics to be a dark mirror team of villains who could match up with the Justice League. This means the villains had to be very overpowered since the Justice League is full of god-tier characters, so the villains needed to be able to fight them…

Avengers: Doomsday is keeping a few X-Men on the sidelines, and an evil choice by Doctor Doom in the comics might have something to do with it. The X-Men renaissance is currently underway. X-Men ’97 is dominating Disney+ by telling a story that’s as captivating for newcomers as it is for people who grew up…

Last month, we passed along Modern Vintage Gamer’s (MVG) confident assertion that Doom is functionally impossible to run on the Neo Geo, owing to the console’s sprite-based display hardware and lack of a frame buffer. We all should have known better than to tell a dedicated group of hackers that something is “impossible,” though, as…

In the wake of Xbox’s planned layoffs across its gaming division, which will impact 3,200 employees, with 1,600 of those workers immediately let go yesterday, Doom developer id Software has been hit particularly hard. A new report suggests the legendary studio has lost roughly half of its staff

For almost twenty years, the leading factor driving comic book speculation has been the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU is infamous for inflating demand for obscure first appearances and other key issues overnight, turning dollar bin fodder like The Eternalsinto collectors’ items. If this is the effect of the MCU on comics and characters without…