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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Imagine being John Romero in 1996. Between Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, you have developed - or co-developed - three of the greatest masterworks in PC gaming history. Although with a few caveats, ...

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 ...

It was gaming's big millennium flop. John Romero, respected around the industry for his pioneering work on Doom and Quake, promised the world that he'd make it his bitch. Huge advertising campaigns, ...

Long before the shame of Red Steel and well beyond the absurdity of Advent Rising, there existed only Daikatana. A game so dreadfully awful that the mere mention of it can be considered the setup and ...

Sitting at his dimly-lit desk in a corner of the IGN compound, cub reporter Tal Blevins placed a telephone call to Eidos today to confirm what he fears the worst: the definite word that Daikatana has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was poking around at John Romero's website on the Daikatana page. The most interesting little bit is that Romero posted the ROM for the GameBoy Color version of Daikatana, unreleased within North ...