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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Action Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week FPS 'I consider it a millennial shooter': The FPS dev making hit shooters by ...

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 ...

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, ...

20 Years Ago, John Romero's Daikatana Nearly Destroyed Doom's Legacy Daikatana should've been a slam dunk, with a superstar lead designer, unlimited budget, and a talented team ready to blow the ...

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, ...

It's funny how the industry works -- Daikatana, one of the PC market's most anticipated (and most hyped games), is still in the works, yet the N64 and perhaps even the Game Boy Color port of the game ...

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 ...