Doom: Title Back on Xbox Live

Fresh from its break, Doom, the pioneer FPS title, is once again available on Xbox Live Arcade’s Marketplace. Although there is no official word for the title’s removal from the platform in October, fans around the world are only happy to welcome it back. It has been available there since 2006, first for 800 Microsoft points then it was scaled down to half. For its re-debut, the title can be purchased for 400 Points. The science fiction title is enjoyed by millions of players worldwide and is credited for giving birth to the First-Person-Shooter Genre. Doom has given rise to many similar games, referred to as Doom clones. Although this shows how popular and influential the title was – and maybe still is -, it does not make it immune to all sorts of intrigues. Word has it that the title’s hiatus on the Xbox Live Marketplace was due to publication rights and licensing problems.

Doom was created in the 1990s by id Software and it has had versions for many gaming platforms. This is one of the reasons why the news of its absence and re-debut on Xbox Live spreads fast in the Internet. The removal of the title from Xbox Live was done with little notification. Tracy Thompson, PR Director at publisher Bethesda Softworks said the move “has to do with expiring rights.” It was later cleared up that Activision, Doom’s publisher for Xbox Live, does not had the rights anymore to keep the game up in the service.

Screenshot from Doom 2

Considered by many as the best game in history, Doom will always have a special part in the gaming industry and of cource in our hearts,

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