John Carmack must be happy to know that his major ID property Doom has been transported into the land of e-readers! Well, more or less. It is actually a port based on their software called PrBoom.
The new Pocketbook 360 in development uses the same new Pearl e-Ink display that the Amazon Kindle and Sony PRS-650 uses. The fluidity of game play demonstrated on the video below is due to the new Freescale processor bundled in. This allows for a non flickering e-ink experience without the poor refresh rate plaguing other e-readers.
The Pocketbook 360 is not the latest next generation e-reader that can do fluid animations. A few months ago we saw the new video by 
that showed full video playing with no flickering at all.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
