An anonymous staff member at Romero Games has claimed that the studio has now been shuttered following last week’s news that the company had its funding cut for its in-development first-person shooter ...

Ireland-based Romero Games is working on a new, smaller project that lifts heavily from the shooter it had been working on but was cancelled by its publisher. Speaking on stage at Salón del Videojuego ...

Following the layoffs across key Microsoft developers Blizzard, Turn 10, Halo Studios, Playground Games, Rare, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, Raven Software and more, former Romero Games employees confirmed ...

The unidentified publisher behind John Romero’s next project has turned out to be Microsoft… which means yet more bad news in terms of layoffs. There is no underselling now awful the recent wave of ...

The dominoes from Microsoft’s layoffs continue to fall. Several games have been cancelled or their development halted with other studios, like The Initiative being permanently shuttered. Now Romero ...

Funding was lost after Bethesda decided to part ways. We’re still determining the extent of the effect the recent restructuring at Microsoft is having. Yesterday, the headlines were filled with ...

July 3, 2025 - Included additional comments from former Romero Games developers. The new game from Doom co-creator John Romero no longer has a publisher, as Romero Games confirms that funding has been ...

TL;DR: Romero Games is not shutting down despite funding cuts and layoffs caused by an unnamed publisher withdrawing support for their new first-person shooter. The studio retains rights to the ...

December 10, 2025 at 9:04am PT Romero Games declined to comment on whether it had found a new publisher or received new funding. This article has been updated to reflect this. "So, we survived the ...

Likely due to the recent layoffs at Microsoft, John and Brendo Romero announce bad news regarding their studio and upcoming game. The games industry continues to be quite volatile, with closures, ...

The massive Microsoft layoffs yesterday saw many Xbox subsidiaries see at least some layoffs with some seeing 100 or more people let go. It now looks like third-party developers that had deals in ...

Romero Games, the studio led by Doom designer John Romero, had been reported as one of the casualties of Xbox’s devastating layoffs last week. This was based on a statement from the studio itself, ...