{"id":96572,"date":"2026-10-30T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96572"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:01:59","slug":"doom-co-creator-john-romero-issues-update-on-his-next-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96572","title":{"rendered":"Doom Co-Creator John Romero Issues Update on His Next Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"


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John Romero, the legendary game designer who co-founded id Software has had a career spanning five decades. During that time he\u2019s enjoyed the highest of highs, such as his seminal work on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, and the lowest of lows, most recently when his current studio Romero Games had its funding pulled by Microsoft amid the ongoing cuts across the Xbox business that began last year.<\/p>\n

Speaking with IGN during Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 this week, where he delivered an opening keynote address titled, \u2018Why We Still Make Games,\u2019 Romero seemed upbeat about the direction of his latest project despite 2025\u2019s devastating setback. In fact, almost a year on from the loss in funding and the resulting reduction of his studio from 110 members of staff down to just five, Romero claimed that he was \u201cdoing better than [he\u2019d] done in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really sucked,\u201d said Romero of the brutal blindsiding by Microsoft in 2025. \u201c[But] I don’t have bitterness because that’s not who I am, really. I always move forward. So it’s like, that happened. Now we have to figure out where to go from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Romero remained tight-lipped on the specifics, he was happy to confirm that Romero Games\u2019 latest project has secured a new publishing partner and that development is proceeding well despite the substantial reduction in resources at the studio. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t talk about the publisher, the release date, you know, anything that we’re doing, what it is, it’s up to them,\u201d said Romero. The only details he could confirm was that \u201cit\u2019s a shooter, it uses Unreal Engine 5.8, and we\u2019re bringing a lot of stuff from the [cancelled] game over.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sal\u00f3n del Videojuego de Madrid last December, Romero said of his newest project that he\u2019d \u201cnever played a game like it,\u201d and claimed that although it\u2019s a shooter, \u201cthe things that you do in it will be new to people [in the same] way that going through Elden Ring was a really new experience.\u201d Speaking to IGN this week, he stopped short of describing the new game as being an open-world, but certainly implied that it would feature a lot more freedom than your average objective-based first-person shooter.<\/p>\n

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