Games Industry Is 'Crashier' Than The 80s Crash, Say The Romeros

Games Industry Is 'Crashier' Than The 80s Crash, Say The Romeros

Brenda and John Romero have worked through both, and see the present as a darker time

John and Brenda Romero think our current video game industry crash is even "crashier" than the infamous recession of the 1980's

John and Brenda Romero - award winning game developers and founders of Romero games - have spoken about the state of the games industry following the radical downsizing of their Galway-based studio.

John and Brenda Romero: "The game industry's in a really horrible place"

You don't have to be a professional analyst to see that something is wrong with the gaming world today. Massive online titles with budgets that could have funded several lavish single-player games are being canceled almost the moment they launch; projects well into development are being scrapped even before release; ultra-expensive games that have taken entire generations to develop are all too often receiving lukewarm reviews; gamers seem dissa…

Doom Co-Creator and Wife Say the Current Game Industry Is 'Crashier' Than the '80s Crash: 'It Can't Stay Like This Forever'

Doom co-creator John Romero and his fellow developer wife, Brenda Romero, believe the modern games industry crisis isn’t just going through another rough cycle. It may be facing something worse than the infamous video game crash developers lived through in the 1980s. After losing funding, undergoing downsizing, and watching layoffs happening across the industry, the Romeros say the current situation feels unusually unstable. “I feel like the ind…

Brenda and John Romero: The industry is in a 'horrible place'

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Brenda and John Romero shared their perspective on the current state of the game industry amid layoffs and a push for genAI.