In July, it was widely reported that Romero Games was completely closed following Microsoft’s mass layoff. The studio was working on a first-person shooter in Unreal Engine 5 before the sad development.
The following day, the studio released a statement saying, “As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio. Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team.”
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In a new update, as seen in Game Reactor, the studio founder, John Romero, has said he still hopes to revive the unannounced project the studio was working on before Microsoft pulled funding.
“Well, we’re still figuring out what we’re going to do with our big game,” Romero said. “We own the IP, we own the code, we own everything about the game, right?
“So we have a lot of companies that are interested and still working with us on it, because when you develop a game for years and you put in, say, $50 million into a game, if you move and start working with somebody else, they get $50 million for free.
Lots of people want to continue working on something, you know, and even if that doesn’t happen, you have $50 million worth of assets that you can use to make another thing. So no matter what, you are shortcutting the end of your game, right? To be able to get your game done faster, you already have a lot there already.”
The studio founder disclosed that they were “midway” through the game they were working on before Microsoft pulled funding. John Romero was the designer who brought Quake and Doom to life.
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