Kotaku: Ion Storm

Sneaking, Soundtracks, and Riker-Porn: The Deus Ex Letters Continue

Kirk Hamilton & Leigh Alexander — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EDT

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Our retrospective letter series continues with part two. The first letter can be found here, and an index of all letters can be found here. More »

Think of This as a Thundercats Appetizer

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:30:00 EDT

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You may not know his name, but you've played his games. Jerry O'Flaherty made his name as Gears of War's Art Director. He also co-founded Ion Storm and worked on Daikatana. Next up, a movie! More »

John Romero Is So Sorry About Trying To Make You His Bitch

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:30:00 EDT

Game designer John Romero and John Romero's hair ruled the roost during the 1990s. With titles like Doom and Quake, he not only helped popularize the first-person shooter, he defined it. Then the unthinkable happened. He made Daikatana. More »

Deus Ex Free Next Week

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:30:00 EDT

Been a while since a game really worth playing (beyond Super Baseball 2020) turned up on Gametap's free-to-play service, so it's nice to be able to report on one. Deus Ex. Starting next week, anyone who downloads Gametap's launcher program can enjoy the game without paying a cent. There's worse ways to get hold of one of the best PC games of all time. Like, you know. Paying for it. More »

Gamecock Head Tears Into John Romero, It's Getting Ugly

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:00:00 EST

It would seem that the ghost of Ion Storm hasn't quite faded into the night, as two of its more prominent employees, John "Suck It Down" Romero, also formerly of id, and Mike Wilson, now at Gamecock, are engaged in a nasty war of words. Romero posted on his personal blog this week that Wilson was up to his usual "jackass stunts" and recalled his former co-worker's time at Gathering of Developers/GodGames "where he pretty much just partied all the time and after the whole thing got reined in by Take 2 he went underground for a while, waiting for his next victim/investor so he could go hogwild all over again." More »

John Romero Dishes on "Bitch Ad"

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:40:38 EST

Doom co-creator John Romero and Gamecock's Mike Wilson go way back. Before he founded Gamecock, Mike Wilson was the CEO of Ion Storm, a company Romero founded. In less than a year, he was pushed out. (The company churned out the acclaimed Deus Ex and the not-so acclaimed Daikatana.) But Wilson's gone on to set up Gamecock, which he describes as an "independent film company for small developers." After reading the Gamecock's release schedule right here on Kotaku, Romero blogged this about his former colleague:
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John Romero And Crew Now Hiring

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:11:15 EDT

John Romero of id fame and Ion Storm infamy is staffing up at his temporarily monikered company, Slipgate Ironworks. Already working on an unnammed MMO, John has the following to say to attract new recruits to his team: More »

Why Thief 3 Sucked: Interview With Randy Smith

brownlee — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:40:24 EDT

There's an absolutely phenomenal interview over at Evil Avatar with Randy Smith of Looking Glass Studios and Ion Storm Austin fame, basically examining Thief 3 and bluntly asking "What the fuck happened there, dude?" More »