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Alasdair Fox
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Great tune, haven’t heard this one for ages!

Lord of the Rings Online is now under Standing Stone Games, an independent company formed by, I beleive, the devs. LOTRO and D&D Online were originally under Turbine, if I remember right.

That may be the case if this was a copyright notice, but the Zenimax notice only talks about trademarks. I’m not sure specifically what trademarks Zenimax has, but I’d be pretty certain the Doom logo and the name ‘Doom’ with regards to a video game are trademarked. Changing the logo artwork, and calling it something

The original DoomRL is an ASCII game (i.e. just text characters, using @ for the doom guy, # for walls, etc.). The screenshot above shows a graphical tileset in use though, which wasn’t part of DoomRL last time i played it. I’d guess the tiles in use aren’t directly lifted from the original Doom files, but user made