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Doom co-creator John Romero is "not going to stop making games" despite the state of the industry because "there's too much cool stuff to make"

John and Brenda Romero are in for the long haul

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'The industry's in a really horrible place,' Brenda Romero says: 'We were there in the '80s for the crash, and this is definitely crashier'

Romero Games managed to scrape through an ugly 2025, but its founders remain unsure about where it's all headed.

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Doom co-creator John Romero worked on a Pokemon-like MMO that taught you maths, but "felt like you were playing World of Warcraft"

Project Redwood had ideas to spare

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Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week

Haunted Lands is out March 10.

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Lakewood Standoff: Suspect Arrested After 'Ramming' ICE Agents With Vehicle

A suspect was arrested in Lakewood after a standoff involving ICE agents, who reported vehicle ramming and injuries. Local police ensured community safety.

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Despite being one of the fathers of FPS, Doom co-creator John Romero's true love is World of Warcraft: "I lived in that game every day for five years"

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is another favorite

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Doom co-creator John Romero adores Ghost Recon and has over 3,000 hours in World of Warcraft: 'God, I lived in that game every day for five years'

The co-founder of id Software and Romero Games takes us on a tour of his games library.

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Doom devs including John Romero respond to terminally ill fan spending his final days playing Doom: The Dark Ages: "You are not alone in that hospital room"

"You are the reason Doom exists"

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id Software's 2D platformers were making "10 times" more money than its early FPS games, and Doom might never have happened if the studio followed the easy cash

Adrian Carmack getting a fright playing Catacomb 3-D is to thank for Doom existing

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id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'

Happy 35th birthday, id Software.

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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs

35 years ago today, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons - Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was released by a dev team including John Carmack and John Romero.

Tom’s Hardware

I'm never getting any work done ever again, thanks to this website that lets me play thousands of user-made Doom levels in my browser

RIP (and tear) my productivity.

PC Gamer

FPS legend John Romero says Doom is "one of the great privileges" of his life on the game's 32nd birthday: "It amazes me how far this rebellion of a game has travelled"

"We wanted to build the the greatest game we could imagine playing, and generations of players have kept it alive"

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Legendary FPS developer John Romero says his studio 'survived the cancellation of our huge game' and its shooter project 'will be new to people the way that going through Elden Ring was a really new experience'

Romero said he's "never played a game like it before—other than it's a shooter."

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Doom creator John Romero's canceled game is now a "much smaller game," but it "will be new to people, the way that going through Elden Ring was a really new experience"

"We have 50 million worth of game we can take pieces out of and put into a brand new indie game"

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A short history of John Romero wishing Sandy Petersen well before nuking his Doom tweets from orbit with ruthless precision

John Romero is about to hope you're doing well.

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John Romero awards John Romero "the most satisfying weapon in gaming history" award for Doom's Super Shotgun, and he's right

The Doom 2 icon is undefeated

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Legendary FPS maker John Romero delivers the objectively correct answer when voting for the most satisfying weapon in gaming history: 'I strongly agree, Mr Romero'

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"A lot of companies" are interested in reviving Doom icon John Romero's new FPS that Microsoft reportedly pulled funding on: "If you move and start working with somebody else, they get $50 million for free"

Even if it doesn't work out you have "assets that you can use to make another thing"

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Doom designer John Romero could have been "System Shock designer John Romero," but the FPS legend got the offer to set up id Software "the week before" another offer to set up what would become Looking Glass

He did later work with LookingGlass dev Warren Spector at Ion Storm

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id Software co-founder John Romero was apparently one week removed from co-founding a completely different icon of PC gaming, but he'd already made plans

There's another timeline where Romero worked on System Shock instead of Doom.

PC Gamer

FPS legend John Romero says Wolfenstein 3D was the first game id Software took its time with⁠—a luxurious 4-month development instead of just 2

"The results spoke for themselves."

PC Gamer

Hideo Kojima says he won't play the MGS 3 remake, mentions he knows loads of ways to kill people, doesn't elaborate, leaves

He remembers the basics of CQC.

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"So much of DOOM’s soul is down to heavy metal": FPS legend John Romero says "without Ozzy and Black Sabbath, I am not sure it would have been the same"

"Metal gave a voice to a whole generation of kids that didn’t fit in for one reason or another"

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Doom co-creator John Romero says games like Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are the future, because they "make AAA studios go, 'Wait a minute, we need to start doing this'''

Despite the challenges facing the industry, Romero remains optimistic

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