O popular jogo Wolfenstein 3D (um dos primeiros games de tiro em primeira pessoa do mercado) foi reconstruído do zero como parte de um novo projeto para modernizá-lo.

O objetivo dessa empreitada, denominada Wolfenshine, foi superar as limitações técnicas da época em que o jogo foi lançado e que o impediam de ter coisas como sombras, luzes coloridas, neblinas e outros efeitos.

O novo projeto, por sua vez, faz uso dos arquivos de mapas, inimigos, armas, sons e gráficos do jogo original — que não são distribuídos junto do Wolfenshine, mas lidos a partir de uma cópia própria do usuário (seja a versão shareware gratuita ou a completa, com as seis fases) — e acrescenta uma camada de efeitos modernos por cima, levando um pouco da tecnologia atual para o game.

Com isso, salas que teoricamente deveriam ser iluminadas por uma lâmpada passam a realmente contar com iluminação, corredores passam a exibir a luz originada por uma porta aberta, dentre outras coisas bem legais.

A jogabilidade, cabe destacar, continua exatamente a mesma. Como o game usa os mesmos arquivos da versão original, basta apertar F2 no teclado para alternar entre o visual clássico e o do Wolfenshine, num passe de mágica.

O Wolfenshine é um projeto de código aberto. O código-fonte e todos os detalhes técnicos (incluindo o passo a passo para a sua instalação) estão disponíveis no repositório oficial no GitHub, onde ele pode ser baixado em versões para macOS, Windows e Linux.

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Video game composer and sound designer Bobby Prince has died at age 81 following an illness. Developer id software shared the news. Engadget reports: Prince was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Doom series. The Library of Congress inducted his soundtrack for the original game into the National Recording Registry just last month. "Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers, Prince composed the perfect riff-shredding accompaniment for the game's demon-slaying journey to hell and back," the Library of Congress stated. "Taking advantage of his knowledge of MIDI, Prince even worked to ensure that the sound effects he created could cut through the music by assigning them to different MIDI frequencies." Prince also worked on games such as Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad and Duke Nukem 3D. In 2006, the Game Audio Network Guild honored Prince with a lifetime achievement award.

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"Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath: The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and other claims. Blizzard Entertainment claims that Project Ascension is a "lucrative way to exploit and profit from the popularity of the WoW game experience," according to the complaint, obtained by Aftermath. Blizzard Entertainment's lawyers say in the complaint that Project Ascension purports to have "over a million players." Lawyers write that the developers have "distributed (and are continuing to distribute) millions of pirated copies of Blizzard's copyrighted WoW game software." They also allege that Project Ascension's servers are hosted on Russian "bulletproof" servers with Aeza Group, a company that was sanctioned in 2025 "for its role in supporting cybercriminal activity targeting victims in the United States and around the world," per a U.S. Department of Treasury press release... Project Ascension lets players combine pieces of World of Warcraft's different classes to build unique characters. It's free-to-play, but players can purchase in-game currency, Donation Points, to buy things in-game, such as cosmetics and experience boosts. Blizzard Entertainment's lawyers assert that Project Ascension has made "millions of dollars from the sale of Donation Points...." Blizzard Entertainment successfully sued a popular World of Warcraft server called Turtle Wow last year. The project had been running since 2018, taking donations from players for the free-to-play server. Both sides announced in April 2026 that they'd reached a settlement after Blizzard Entertainment was awarded a permanent injunction to shut down Turtle WoW. The details of the settlement were not made public. Turtle WoW was shut down for good shortly after May 15; players gathered online to mourn the end of the server.

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