{"id":84053,"date":"2026-06-07T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84053"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:36:27","slug":"doom-the-dark-ages-swaps-the-shield-for-an-awesome-looking-spear-in-new-revelations-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84053","title":{"rendered":"Doom: The Dark Ages Swaps The Shield For An Awesome-Looking Spear In New Revelations DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-game-showcase-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-so-far\/\">Xbox Games Showcase at Summer Game Fest<\/a>, id Software revealed an expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages titled Revelations. Taking the Doom Slayer to hell and swapping out Dark Ages&#8217; distinctive shield for a spear, the DLC launches soon, on July 7 for all platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spear is the star of the show here, acting as a big change to the shield that was a permanent part of your loadout in the main game. You&#8217;ll be able to launch the spear at foes from a distance but also use it as a grappling hook. The footage shows the Doom Slayer using the spear for platforming and, more importantly, yanking himself towards demons before unloading several shotgun shells into them.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/UKkd02ZEBOU?si=4bdYvTUrCG5AU9UB  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Narratively, it seems the Doom Slayer is being stripped of his armor and plunged down into hell, which might be the first time he finds himself there given The Dark Ages&#8217; placement in the Doom timeline. There&#8217;s some suggestions too that we&#8217;ll get glimpses of the first Doom in Revelations too, but it&#8217;s unclear if these are just neat callbacks, like those in the 2016 release of Doom, or more substantial story beats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doom Eternal received<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Xbox Games Showcase at Summer Game Fest, id Software revealed an expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages titled Revelations. Taking the Doom Slayer to hell and swapping out Dark Ages&#8217; distinctive shield for a spear, the DLC launches soon, on July 7 for all platforms. The spear is the star of the show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":84055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84056,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84053\/revisions\/84056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}