{"id":92335,"date":"2026-10-30T05:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92335"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:36:58","slug":"john-romeros-next-shooter-survived-the-microsoft-purge-now-hes-taking-inspiration-from-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92335","title":{"rendered":"John Romero&#8217;s Next Shooter Survived the Microsoft Purge, Now He&#8217;s Taking Inspiration From The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>John Romero, the legendary game designer who co-founded id Software has had a career spanning five decades. During that time he\u2019s enjoyed the highest of highs, such as his seminal work on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, and the lowest of lows, most recently when his current studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/update-romero-games-employee-says-whole-studio-subject-to-layoffs-after-microsoft-pulls-funding-for-new-shooter-from-doom-co-creator-john-romero\">Romero Games had its funding pulled by Microsoft amid the ongoing cuts across the Xbox business<\/a> that began last year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with IGN during Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 this week, where he delivered an opening keynote address titled, \u2018Why We Still Make Games,\u2019 Romero seemed upbeat about the direction of his latest project despite 2025\u2019s devastating setback. In fact, almost a year on from the loss in funding and the resulting reduction of his studio from 110 members of staff down to just five, Romero claimed that he was \u201cdoing better than [he\u2019d] done in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really sucked,\u201d said Romero of the brutal blindsiding by Microsoft in 2025. \u201c[But] I don&#8217;t have bitterness because that&#8217;s not who I am, really. I always move forward. So it&#8217;s like, that happened. Now we have to figure out where to go from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"every-doom-game-ranked-best-to-worst\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>While Romero remained tight-lipped on the specifics,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Romero, the legendary game designer who co-founded id Software has had a career spanning five decades. During that time he\u2019s enjoyed the highest of highs, such as his seminal work on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, and the lowest of lows, most recently when his current studio Romero Games had its funding pulled by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":92337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92339,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92335\/revisions\/92339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}