Doom Eternal launched today. As you may have heard, the game is off to a pretty strong start, even modestly, with Steam's peak concurrent user count surpassing 100,000 (104,727 at this time) and Twitch's viewer count hitting 115,000.

This puts Doom Eternal in the top 10 in Steam's player count rankings, slightly ahead of Destiny 2 but still well behind Grand Theft Auto 5 and Football Manager 2020. It is also well over double the peak concurrent player count for Doom, which hit just over 44,000 in May 2016, according to SteamDB.

The launch also seems to be going pretty well; Bethesda maintains a "Launch FAQ and Known Issues" thread on its forums, mirrored on Reddit, but it hasn't grown much since the pre-release version earlier this week: so far it adds The only thing that has been added is something about how the game runs on laptops: if you're running but not performing well, try disabling the Steam overlay.

Doom Eternal is one of the best shooters in years: James has 10 tips for Doomslayer newbies, Emma is about runes and how to be active in the multiplayer battle mode, Harry has the Doom Fortress computer passwords, and if you want to know the cheat codes, of course they exist, but they're a little different than the cheat codes you remember, so we cover those too.

And a happy message from Marty and Hugo.