PC

John Romero Offers Details On His New MMO-Like PC Shooter

It’s been a while since man/myth/legend/Doom co-creator John Romero put out a shooter. Almost 10 years, in fact. Speaking with Eurogamer, Romero revealed some details on a new shooter he’ll be working on soon.


March 24, 2012
Retro

The Best Doom Painting Ever Is In John Romero’s House

This is a painting of Doom, one of the greatest games of all times. And surely this must be one of the coolest video game paintings of all time.


March 2, 2012
In Real Life

A Letter From One Gaming Legend To Another

Before John Romero co-created Doom he was just a kid. A very smart kid. When he was a teenager, he wrote a letter to Jordan Mechner, a very smart man who made a game young John Romero liked very much.


July 8, 2011
In Real Life

What’s America’s Fetish This Week? Guns

In approximately 90 days, walk into any bar in the US state of Ohio. If there aren’t any signs stating otherwise, feel free to carry your concealed weapon in that watering hole. But don’t order a round. You can’t legally drink if you are packing heat.


March 24, 2011
In Real Life

Watch Creators Of Doom, Pac-Man, Pitfall! Wax Nostalgic

Not only can you now relive this year’s Game Developers Conference keynote from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who spoke about the creation of Kirby and the devaluation of games in “Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future”, you can experience the best part of GDC 2011: the classic game post mortems.


March 23, 2011
News

Watch (Some) GDC Presentations Online

Kotaku AU

I got back from GDC a couple of weeks ago with a couple of regrets. Firstly, I ate way too many Karl’s Jr Hamburgers, secondly I missed way too many awesome presentations. Thankfully I can now watch (some) of the presentations for free – and so can you.


February 18, 2011
PC

If This Is How PC Gaming Will Live, Maybe It Should Die

There was a time when Brian Reynolds was best known for his work on epic computer strategy games like Civilization II, Rise of Nations and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. But nowadays he’s the poster child for the casualfication of gaming.


October 21, 2010
News

John Romero Wants To Make You His Friend With New Facebook Game

The co-creator of Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein is putting his name on something a little friendlier, a Facebook app by the name of Ravenwood Fair. That’s right, John Romero is asking you to suck it down, casually.


August 31, 2010

What Do Game Developers Know About Real Guns?

In game after game, there they are: guns. Weapons are a common trope. They are a catalyst for action and an instrument for destruction. In-game guns and, well, guns are different. What do game developers know about the real deal?


August 10, 2010

The Ghost Of Id Software’s Past

John Romero haunts game developer id Software. Yes, he co-founded the studio and thus more than earned his place in id history. But Romero only worked there between the years of 1991 and 1996.