"A lot of companies" are interested in reviving Doom icon John Romero's new FPS that Microsoft reportedly pulled funding on: "If you move and start working with somebody else, they get $50 million for free"

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id Software co-founder and Doom designer John Romero says Romero Games still has a number of publishers interested in the studio's axed shooter after it reportedly lost its funding from Microsoft earlier this year.

As a part of Microsoft's sweeping layoffs, which impacted its gaming division, resulting in the cancellations of Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and Zenimax Online Studios' unannounced MMO, Romero Games announced it had lost funding on an "all-new FPS with an original, new IP" that it had been working with "a major publisher" on for a few years. While Romero Games' statement didn't mention Microsoft, former employees identified them as the "major publisher" when discussing the cancellation.