John Romero, co-creator of Doom.
John Romero, co-creator of Doom.
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John Romero isn’t done with the first-person shooter genre he helped create

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 26 min

John Romero made a name for himself in game development as one of the original creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake. He helped establish the first-person shooter genre in the 1990s, and those games are now a multibillion-dolllar market. And Romero is still involved.

He recently teamed up with fellow id Software cofounder Adrian Carmack to make a shooter game called Blackroom. Their new startup, Night Work Games, launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and then shelved it after four days to create a more elaborate demo.

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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.