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John Romero says id Software once sold empty Doom boxes to Taiwanese pirates so fans there could have legit copies: 'For us, it was distribution'
By Andy Chalk Published
news The id Software co-founder told the story during an opening panel at QuakeCon.

John Romero to headline Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show in 2026, as show undergoes big expansion
By Shaun Prescott Published
News Asia's Gamescom returns to Bangkok for the second year running.

John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left
By Joshua Wolens Published
News "I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."

A short history of John Romero wishing Sandy Petersen well before nuking his Doom tweets from orbit with ruthless precision
By Wes Fenlon Last updated
Doomed John Romero is about to hope you're doing well.

John Carmack apologizes after Sandy Petersen says 'Quake ruined id Software,' and for once John Romero doesn't tell Sandy he's wrong
By Andy Chalk Published
news Three of the principals from the early days of id Software shared some faintly maudlin but ultimately uplifting reminiscences from those long-ago days.

In 1997, Warren Spector told us the upcoming PC classic Deus Ex was inspired by Final Fantasy, Miyamoto, and 'the console guys'
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Before it was a classic.

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

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'
By Rick Lane Published
Disk Cleanup The co-founder of id Software and Romero Games takes us on a tour of his games library.

'The hunting genre was because of Wal-Mart:' Doom dev John Romero says the entire category was created to appease one Texan executive
By Ted Litchfield Published
news Romero dove into the sequence of events on a recent podcast appearance.

Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work
By Ted Litchfield Last updated
news Romero Games is pursuing alternate sources of funding, but for the time being, it sounds like the dream is dead.
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