For a high-level videogame maker, the late 1990s were an intense period. Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid were both on the shelves and both implied, the former subtly and the latter explicitly, that ...

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Daikatana is, without a doubt, one of the most infamous video games in history. John Romero left id Software with his voracious enthusiasm for the devil intact. Ion Storm got their hands on the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Daikatana has been a mainstay in the gaming press for several years following Ion Storm's claims that the game would revolutionize the first-person ...

Picture this. Hiro Miyamoto, the leader of the renowned Miyamoto clan, is practicing in his dojo one day. Suddenly, a stranger appears, filling Hiro's head with all sorts of flights of fancy. It seems ...

Doom and Daikatana designer John Romero is "starting to work" on a new shooter - his first in 14 years. Romero, who rose to fame thanks to his contribution to id Software's Doom and later gained ...

The game first came out 13 years ago, steeped in hype and marred by controversial advertising campaigns, which read: "John Romero is about to make you his bitch." And maybe he did - after all, we were ...

10 years later, Doom co-creator John Romero has "apologised" to fans for a "terrible" Daikatana marketing campaign he "regrets" and "should have stopped". Famously, a poster for the game told fans ...

Doom, Wolfenstein, and Quake co-creator John Romero says that he "supports" a remake of 2000 shooter Daikatana. Developed at Ion Storm, after Romero parted ways with id Software, Daikatana struggled ...

The confluence of talent that coalesced to form id Software in 1991 was a once-in-a-lifetime team. Programming whiz kid John Carmack was obsessed with squeezing every drop of performance out of the PC ...