DOOM Eternal broke the franchise record for opening weekend sales with double the launch revenue of the 2016-released DOOM, publisher Bethesda Softworks and developer id Software announced. It was also the best selling game on Steam for its release week, surpassing 100,000 concurrent players on the platform. DOOM Eternal launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, …

A common and controversial topic in gaming is crunch, which is a period of game development where developers spend extra hours in the office beyond what is normal. id Software's creative director, Hugo Martin, spoke about crunch for Doom Eternal during a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

The Nintendo Switch could soon be the sort of platform that gets the same games at the same time as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, according to the head of Panic Button Games. And Adam Creighton, director of development and co-owner of the studio, should know, Panic Button has spent more time working on bringing big AAA titles from other platforms to the Switch than most. He says his studio has spent nearly six years working with Nintendo’s Switch hardware, including early development tech.