For those unfamiliar, John Romero was one of the original founders of id Software and co-creator of landmark shooters like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom alongside his former partner John Carmack. He was also responsible for some mildly questionable video game magazine ads. Read “Masters of Doom” by David Kushner if you want the full story on those two, it’s a very good book. Anyway, Romero has been popping in and out of the gaming scene for years, mostly in attempts to pursue his own personal projects with his development studio, Romero Games.
Up until last summer, he had one such project in the pipeline, a brand new first-person shooter being financed by a then-unknown publisher. Unfortunately, it turns out that the publisher was Microsoft, who axed Romero’s funding in the midst of its recent whirlwind of layoffs and restructuring, leaving him and his project flailing. Romero insisted at the time that the studio wouldn’t close down, and began concentrated efforts to find a new publisher to pick up the slack.
In an interview at Gamescom Asia with Video Games Chronicle, Romero revealed today that his studio had successfully secured a new publisher and funding for his...
