Recent News for DOOM II

• John Romero details plans for "MMO-ish" PC shooter - 5^th April 2012
  John Romero, the veteran developer and id Software founder who helped create FPS touchstones like Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein, is planning a return to the genre in which he made his name. Romero, who's currently CEO of social game studio Loot Drop, Inc., told Eurogamer that although he hasn't formally started work on the project he has the design nailed down. "Yes, I'm definitely going to be makin...
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• Doom maker John Romero has "plans" for old-school FPS - 12^th March 2012
  Look, a young John Romero! And who's that next to him? Has John Romero - the abundantly-haired creator of games Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein - given up on making an old-school FPS? "Definitely not!" retorted John Romero on Twitter. "I have plans..." But those do not include Daikatana 2. As Romero succinctly put it: "There will be no DK2!" Romero's best known for co-founding id Software and designin...
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• Prince of Persia creator unearths fan letter from teenage John Romero - 1^st March 2012
  Here's one for the history books. Jordan Mechner, the veteran game designer responsible for Prince of Persia, has dug up a fan letter he received nearly 30 years ago from a 17-year-old called John Romero - the very same guy who'd go on to create FPS touchstones Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake at id Software. Dated 25th March 1985, the letter, published in full on Kotaku, sees Romero praising 21-year-o...
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• Doom returns to Xbox Live Arcade - 18^th January 2012
  id Software's seminal FPS Doom returns to Xbox Live Arcade today, publisher Bethesda has announced. The 1993 classic will set you back a mere 400 Points. The game was originally made available on Microsoft's download service way back in 2006 but was pulled in October 2009 due to Activision's original publishing rights expiring. Happily, it seems like that's all been sorted out with control reverti...
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• Retrospective: Doom - 15^th January 2012
  Holy s***, there's a monster in the lift. That's not supposed to happen. The lift is the end of the level. It's a safe zone, a chance for a breather before the game totals your score. For God's sake, it's a universally acknowledged cessation of hostilities. But this time, there's a monster in the lift and both my friend and I physically reel with shock, spasming backwards as the thing lurches towa...
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