To collect all of the gaming tidbits I’ve seen on the web, in e-mail, and in IM for review over the weekend:

• A potentially huge DOOM 3 performance tweak on this PlanetDOOM thread (thanks to my brother-in-law)

• 7 “mods” for DOOM 3 including 32-player deathmatch and co-op (need to see if there’s a better download location)
• A massive 30-minute movie showing off various aspects of the HL2 engine-powered Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines (discussed and linked to in this Gamespy article)

After a brief period where we thought greed and ego would stop the Daleks from being included in the new Dr. Who series, the BBC is now reporting that they’ve settled their dispute with the Terry Nation estate and the Daleks will indeed be a part of the new adventures of Dr. Who. (Thanks to Gravity Lens for the tip.)

With Doom 3 upon us and Half-Life 2 quickly approaching, it’s time to take a stab at that Sisyphean task of keeping the deck up-to-date and able to play the latest and greatest (at high resolution with antialiasing and anistropic filtering enabled, of course).

My next leap:

Unfortunately, due to constraints on the PCI-Express motherboard and 6800 Ultra Express, it looks like I won’t have the new box up, running, and scaring the crap out of me in Doom 3 until mid-to-late September.

As a follow-up to my earlier post about DOOM 3 video performance, here is [H]ard|OCP’s full DOOM 3 hardware guide.