John Romero Back In The Game

Gamespot reports that John Romero, the well known former id software designer, has opened his own development studio for the first time in several years. From the article: "Romero and Midway parted ways after just two years. He had been hired, along with former Ion Storm colleague Tom Hall, in October, 2003. His departure in July of this year was amicable on the surface, but chatter among industry wags suggested the Midway brass weren't entirely impressed with the work Romero and his team produced. At the time of his departure, Romero and Hall were working on the still-unreleased action role-playing game Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows."

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Re:Didn't he found Ion Storm?

[lorelorn]

There were separate Ion Storm studios around the US. As far as I can tell, they never communicated with one another.

Romero and Hall came out with Storm Over Gift 3, an unbelievably primitive and generally crappy RTS, and followed it with Daikatana, an unbelievably primitive and generally crappy FPS.

Spector's Ion Storm studio came out with Deus Ex.

Ion Storm was a company where the company logo meant either shit or sugar, but you had to look for which studio had produced the game.