{"id":2257,"date":"2025-07-07T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/romero-games-says-reports-of-its-death-are-greatly-exaggerated\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:55:16","slug":"romero-games-says-reports-of-its-death-are-greatly-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/romero-games-says-reports-of-its-death-are-greatly-exaggerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Romero Games says reports of its death are greatly exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>It appeared that Romero Games might have shuttered as a consequence of the <ins>sweeping job cuts at Microsoft<\/ins> last week, but the studio is still alive and kicking. In to a <ins>post<\/ins> on Bluesky, the company clarified that its latest project is currently canceled after its funding was pulled. The post doesn&rsquo;t name the publisher due to confidentiality agreements, but it sure seems like Microsoft was the purse behind the new game. Losing the money hasn&rsquo;t also meant that Romero Games is closing its doors, but the next steps will be difficult ones for the team.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio,&rdquo; the post reads.<\/p>\n<p>The canceled project was billed on Romero Games&rsquo; website as a first-person shooter with a brand new, original intellectual property. It may eventually find new life with a new backer. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we&rsquo;re currently evaluating those opportunities,&rdquo; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Romero Games was founded in 2014 by storied game designers John and Brenda Romero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Romero Games says reports of its death are greatly exaggerated<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appeared that Romero Games might have shuttered as a consequence of the sweeping job cuts at Microsoft last week, but the studio is still alive and kicking. In to a post on Bluesky, the company clarified that its latest project is currently canceled after its funding was pulled. The post doesn&rsquo;t name the publisher&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/romero-games-says-reports-of-its-death-are-greatly-exaggerated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Romero Games says reports of its death are greatly exaggerated&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}