Doom’s John Romero confirms his new FPS is saved after Xbox abandoned it
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id Software co-founder John Romero indicates that his studio’s shelved Xbox project has a new distributor, with a reduced team revising the game’s scope.
Romero Games revealed their development on an “entirely new FPS with a unique, original IP” back in 2022. However, during the summer of 2025, following what has become an annual layoffs at Xbox, the venture was seemingly terminated. It became apparent after the declaration that the game’s undisclosed publisher had been Xbox, placing Romero Games in jeopardy of closure due to additional Microsoft reductions.
Now, more than a year later, Romero has informed VGC regarding the studio’s present condition. He mentions that the studio retained its personnel “as long as we could, attempting to secure funding to complete the game.” Ultimately, however, the studio had to “implement reductions and then determine what our course of action would be with a very small team.”
The workforce shrank from 110 individuals to five at one stage, but Romero asserts that the FPS project has acquired a new publisher, and that the studio has “re-hired 10 individuals.” The returning developers were “the leaders of the various sub-teams that we had.” The game is being restructured in line with the smaller team.
“We don’t need to expand beyond that, the game is planned for a team that size and we’re just exceedingly pleased,” Romero clarifies. Concerning the original objectives, he states, “We can’t bring that game to completion. That game is unattainable because it requires 110 personnel. So this represents a thorough redesign of an entirely different game, but it incorporates much of the effort we invested in the previous games.”
Nonetheless, Romero mentions “we’ve transferred a multitude of elements to the new game, which has provided us with a significant head-start, beginning with stunning art, fantastic weapons, and all that sort of material.” Regarding the new publisher,
