Romero Video games, the studio led by Doom designer John Romero, had been reported as one of many casualties of Xbox’s devastating layoffs final week. This was based mostly on an announcement from the studio itself, which introduced that the writer lined up for its subsequent venture had pulled funding. Nonetheless, when you really learn the assertion itself, it stops in need of saying the corporate is shutting down. At this time, June 7, the studio launched one other assertion clarifying a few of the data circulating on-line, together with the standing of the corporate.
Romero Video games launched a submit on its varied social media channels clarifying that, though its subsequent sport was certainly canceled attributable to pulled funding, the corporate itself remains to be actively exploring subsequent steps. For now, Romero Video games is looking for a brand new writer to carry its sport previous the end line. In accordance with the assertion, “a number of” publishers have reached out to the corporate about seeing the sport by way of, and the group is “evaluating” its choices. So whereas nothing’s set in stone, it does look like there’s an opportunity that some occasion or events will assist salvage the sport after Microsoft pulled out of the deal. (The assertion itself says it can’t identify the writer attributable to “confidentiality agreements,” however members of the studio have already acknowledged publicly that they had been caught up within the layoffs at Microsoft.)
Hopefully, no matter Romero Video games is engaged on sees the sunshine of day. It will be good to see a minimum of one spark of hope emerge from all of the destruction Microsoft put the Xbox studios by way of final week, such because the cancellation of the Excellent Darkish reboot and Uncommon’s Everwild. No matter Xbox manages to launch this era, the Xbox Collection X/S era has been outlined by a variety of carnage for Xbox Sport Studios and not practically sufficient good video games to indicate for it.
