Doom and Earthquake Veterans' New FPS Lost Funding, Microsoft Looks To Be Blamed

Romero Games, a studio led by John and Brenda Romero, announced that an unspecified publisher has canceled funding for its new game and is believed to be Microsoft.

exist postal“Our publishers, with several other unnotified projects from other studios, canceled funding for our games,” said Brenda Romero, adding: “This is a strategic decision made by the publisher at a high level within the publisher, far beyond our visibility or control.”

The wording and timing suggest that Microsoft is the publisher of this new game, given that Microsoft has just confirmed that it has Cancel multiple unnotified games. Romero Games said a few years ago that its new FPS was announced to be in the process of “Main” Publisher, Microsoft will fit into the bill. Affected employees of Romero Games Say it directly on social media That was “Unfortunately, I lost my position at Romero Games due to the recent Xbox layoffs.”

“We're very much hoping there are some things, everything we could have done to prevent this outcome,” Romero continued. She added that Romero's game “hits every milestone on time every time, always highly praised and easily passes through all of our internal doors.”

“We are very proud of the work we have done and the talented team behind it,” she said.

Romero said the studio is now “evaluating the next step and working quickly to support our team.” According to affected employees The “whole studio” is being released.

John Romero in 2022 A new Doom II level has been released and all proceeds will help the Ukrainian people.

If Microsoft does cancel the new FPS for Romero Games, it will join Everwild and The perfect darkness cancelled Due to the latest Microsoft changes. It also reported Microsoft canceled a new MMORPG from Zenimax online studio. In addition to canceling the game, Microsoft also shut down the perfect dark developer initiative and fired many people in its business.