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Id Software has undergone a great deal of change during a tumultuous few years recently. With all of the founders now focused on other projects and a stretch of development hell now behind it, the company has experienced something of a rebirth. And Doom, the fourth game in its legendary FPS series, is indicative of a studio working with renewed confidence after having remembered what made it special in the first place. For our cover feature we head to Richardson, Texas to play the game and speak to the people giving new life to one of the most influential series ever created. Issue 290 of Edge is available now in print, on iPad, Google Play and Zinio.

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