Ion Maiden is a retro shooter from 3D Realms.
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3D Realms shows neo-retro shooter Ion Maiden

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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3D Realms is under new ownership and is trying to breathe life into the old-style shooter games, as evidenced by the announcement of Ion Maiden, a neo-retro first-person shooter for the PC.

Dallas-based 3D Realms, which Danish entrepreneurs now own, pioneered games such as Duke Nukem back in 1990s. Danish investor Mike Nielsen and his SDN Invest company acquired 3D Realms and started making new games — not Duke Nukem, which is now owned by Gearbox Software.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.