John Romero disputes Sandy Petersen’s claim of writing Doom's original backstory, attributing the credit to Tom Hall instead. Romero explained that Kevin Cloud wrote the Doom manual using Tom ...

In a follow-up tweet – posted before Romero's response – Petersen acknowledges that Tom Hall did, indeed, craft the original Doom backstory. "And then I did not have access to it when I wrote the ...

Author's Note: "Living the Dream" was written for inclusion with the Catacomb 3-D collector's boxes released from Romero Games. It has been reprinted here with permission. One of the first things ...

Doom creator John Romero praises Xbox Game Pass for breaking down barriers to game accessibility. Romero believes the service benefits players by allowing them to "try before you buy" while also ...

John Romero, co-founder of legendary first-person shooter developer id Software and designer on the original DOOM, is a big fan of Xbox Game Pass. That tidbit popped up during a recent interview ...

One of the founders of id Software, John Romero, is getting ready to release a new episode for perhaps its most influential game, Doom. The new episode, Sigil II, will be released on December 10 ...

In looking back over 2024 I am compelled to note that in May of this year John Romero, he of making Doom and helping cement the very genre of the first person shooter fame, said that "gib" is ...

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Over the past few years, Doom designer John Romero has been disputing details shared by fellow id veteran Sandy Petersen on the development of the original two games. I have no idea how this ...