John Romero, ID Software co-founder and one of the brilliant minds behind Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake, is gearing up for another massive first-person shooter (FPS).
On Tuesday, Romero announced that his studio is hiring for a brand new FPS title.
“It’s a new dawn for Romero Games. We are 100% focused on first-person shooters, the foundation that built our careers, our studio and a genre,” reads a statement on the Romero Games website. “Our current project is an all-new FPS with an original, new IP. Romero Games is working with a major publisher using state-of-the-art technology – Unreal Engine 5.”
Unfortunately, details beyond this are practically non-existent. The FAQ page simply reiterates that loose information, so there’s nothing else to go on. From the sound of things, this project is in the conceptual stages. So likely won’t see it for ages.
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“It’s way too early to share any other information on it,” Brenda Romero, studio director, said via PC Gamer. “We are deliberately not boarding the hype train.”
It makes sense. This announcement is a hiring initiative, first and foremost. Fingers crossed that the game is an old-school boomer shooter, kind of like Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
