Doom Italia

Doom Italia is a popular website for Italian doomers.

History of Doom Italia
Started in the late 1990s, Doom Italia soon became very popular among Italian doomers. In 2001 a new version of the news board was installed which remains online today, allowing users to interact by rating news articles and posting comments. Since then, the appearance of the site has changed several times, but it was in 2003 that Doom Italia made the big step. On September 10, 2003 the site joined the SpazioGames network, one of the biggest Italian videogames networks.

In 2004 Doom III was launched and Doom Italia reached the apex of its popularity, with hundreds of visitors per day and dozens of messages active on the forum. In September the same year it became necessary for technical reasons to rewrite the web code, but due to the jobs of the webmasters, the work was never fully completed. Despite this, news, articles and the forum continued to be active, although some of the links on the site do not function. Doom Italia continues to be the most important site for Italian doomers.

Doom Italia today
Since the launch of Doom III and Quake IV, the main topics of news and forum discussions are: maps, mods, patches and tools for the Doom and Quake games (particularly Doom 3 and Quake 4, but also the previous chapters of both series); graphical hardware; new first person shooters (e.g. Prey, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars); first person shooter tournaments (specifically QuakeCon); interviews and polls. However, these are not the only topics of discussion.

Doom Italia IRC Channel
Since 2007 Doom Italia has had an official IRC Channel on ZDaemon. The channel name is #doomitalia.

Doom Italia official staff
Catof Site Founder

Eug Site Founder

Afullo ''Site and Forum Administrator

DaNg3R Forum Chief Moderator

Hexen Terzo Site Newser and Forum Moderator

ICON of SIN Site Newser and Forum Moderator

Thunderbolt Forum Moderator

Doom Italia unofficial staff, adjutants and IRC staff
Duke Nume News researcher

NoSf3rAtU News researcher

Omegamax IRC channel operator

Immo IRC channel operator

Doom Italia former staff
Acamardipane Site Newser in 2001.

Runza Site Newser in 2001.

Hackboyz Site Newser and Forum Moderator in 2001.

Megalodon Site Newser and Forum Moderator in 2001 and 2002.

Viruz Site Newser and Forum Moderator in 2003.

MjKak Site Newser and Forum Moderator from 2002 to 2005.

Neurological Forum Moderator in 2006, from July to December.

Gyppi Forum Moderator in 2006, from February to December.

Doom Italia community
Today the site receives around 100 hits per day. Since its launch, Doom Italia has received over 475,000 hits.