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Doom's biggest gun has an unusually blunt name

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In a brilliant display of corporate restraint, the developers decided the absolute pinnacle of their sci-fi arsenal didn't need a scientific moniker. They just named it exactly what every single player was going to call it anyway.

Doom's biggest gun has an unusually blunt name
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