John Romero tweets about his first Doom level in 21 years.
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Doom co-creator John Romero makes his first level in 21 years for the landmark shooter

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John Romero tweeted today that he made his first Doom level in 21 years.

The co-creator of the landmark game included the level on a Dropbox link. Doom first debuted 22 years ago as one of the seminal titles that cemented the first-person shooter genre that has become a multibillion-dollar business. Id Software, and later its new owner Bethesda, created a whole series of games based on the Doom brand.

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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.