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 primarily based on a press release from the studio itself, which introduced that the writer lined up for its subsequent venture had pulled funding. Nevertheless, for those who really learn the assertion itself, it stops wanting saying the corporate is shutting down. In the present day, June 7, the studio launched one other assertion clarifying among the info circulating on-line, together with the standing of the corporate.
Romero Video games launched a publish on its numerous social media channels clarifying that, though its subsequent recreation was certainly canceled on account of pulled funding, the corporate itself remains to be actively exploring subsequent steps. For now, Romero Video games is searching for a brand new writer to carry its recreation previous the end line. Based on the assertion, “a number of” publishers have reached out to the corporate about seeing the sport by means of, and the staff is “evaluating” its choices. So whereas nothing’s set in stone, it does seem to be 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 not title the writer on account of “confidentiality agreements,” however members of the studio have already acknowledged publicly that they have been caught up within the layoffs at Microsoft.)
Hopefully, no matter Romero Video games is engaged on sees the sunshine of day. It might be good to see not less than one spark of hope emerge from all of the destruction Microsoft put the Xbox studios by means of final week, such because the cancellation of the Good Darkish reboot and Uncommon’s Everwild. No matter Xbox manages to launch this technology, the Xbox Sequence X/S technology has been outlined by quite a lot of carnage for Xbox Sport Studios and not practically sufficient good video games to point out for it.