Romero Games have "completely" closed doors, but there's still hope for the Doom creator's new FPS

The shooter has "already had important interest", says CTO

Romero Games announced past week that they'd mislaid backing for their upcoming FPS successful the aftermath of Microsoft's latest wide layoff spree. According to 1 worker who spoke to Irish outlet The Journal (the workplace is based successful Galway), Romero Games person present closed, via PC Gamer.

The closure has affected 100 workers, writer The Journal, with 1 anonymous unit subordinate calling it "a large shock" - particularly since they'd had meetings with "the publisher" the time before. While the steadfast aren't named directly, erstwhile unit person mentioned Microsoft cuts successful their announcements.

The anonymous staffer had "suspected thing mightiness beryllium coming fixed caller layoffs astatine Microsoft," constitute the Journal. But, arsenic echoed successful Romero Games's connection that they'd "hit each milestone connected time, consistently received precocious praise, and easy passed our interior gates", they assumed the task was progressing well.

“It seemed truthful acold distant for us. The rubric was beauteous good developed astatine the time,” the anonymous staffer told The Journal. For now, they say, the task is "completely closed, and the workplace is closed", though adhd that they're inactive "trying to find different ways of backing the project."

The unnamed FPS has "already had important interest", wrote main method serviceman Keith O'Conor successful a LinkedIn station offering hiring recommendations for erstwhile staff. He described the involvement arsenic "really heartening… but close present our precedence is making definite our radical are taken attraction of".

John Romero announced the shooter successful 2022, a caller IP made successful Unreal Engine 5. Details person remained scant since. Prior to this, Romero's astir caller caller FPS task was his and Adrian Carmack's Blackroom - a crippled afloat of "ruined Victorian mansions", "wild westbound shade towns" and "treacherous pirate galleons", itself cancelled successful 2016.